Star Wars Trailers - How did they do that?

[KingDufus]

I'm trying to stream some quicktime movies on a web site. I saw the Star Wars trailers which look like they are being streamed, and the quality is amazing. I can't seem to get anywhere near that kind of quality with mine, and was wondering if anyone knew how those trailers were created so that they look nice, and stream smoothly.
My files always seem to drop frames, and most compression settings look horrible..

Thanks,
-King Dufus

 

[marcato]

High-quality video compression is an art as well as a science. I believe those Star Wars trailers used the Sorenson 3 Pro codec, which utilitizes variable bit rate compression (VBR) that can adapt to variances in the video content. Use Cleaner as your compression tool, and Sorenson 3, and fiddle with the settings. You should be able to get excellent quality results.