ok i think i have a fairly simple problem but the way i got myself there may be kind of complicated so i will try to explain it the best i can. My main issue is that my export from final cut which is in h.264 looks like crap since i had to get it to below 100mb to upload the the org.
First i started with a 720p 1280x720 avi version of the bleach movie fade to black
Then opened the .avi version of the movie in quicktime and used the trim tool to cut out most of the long dialogue scenes that i knew i would not use in the AMV and to cut down the time of the encode to .mov.
Then i brought it into compressor and used the h.264 preset to convert it to .mov (before doing some research on this site i had originally thought that FCP did not accept avi i found out that it did i would just have to render after altering any clip)
Then i saved the trimmed down version as a self contained file and imported it into final cut.
I used that master clip for my edit of the video and then after trying many encodes to get the file small enough for this site i got it down to 80 mb with an h.264 export with the quality between medium and high. which i would never use in most cases but i did not know how to get the file any smaller at that point.
After seeing how it looked on the site i tried one solution of making all the media in the time line offline and then relinking it to the original avi file not the mov file that i used. but the edits did not match up since i had trimmed out some of the footage for the .mov version.
so my question is does anyone know where i went wrong with this process. the video is clearly a much lower quality then what i started off with, what would you suggest for getting better quality that i can upload to the site
any help would be greatly appreciated.


