The current supported QT version is 7.3.1. You can find a lot of the compatibility info here:

Thanks.
Trying to install previous version, won't do it as later version is installed, how can I uninstall it ? Just trashing the program doesn't work as it obviously leaves lots of bits in various locations.

Found a website
http://www.smitelli.com/?page=blog&p=45
which tells you how to install previous versions.
and it worked in that I've re installed 7.3.
However this hasn't solved the 2 field problem.
I will try exporting with the animation setting.

you can solve the field problem within compressor, if you're using the dv codec then your quicktime export is lower field first. Compressor (and other applications) tend to misinterpret the fields, so you have do this to manually in the inspector. Don't forget to check if you encode the same way.

This is my DVD methodology.  This week, anyway...

Although I LOVED the Meridien OS9 QT export option, I'm still not having much luck w/the QT Reference with the MC software/Mojo route, and can't afford the time to go thru the process only to see a problem.  I also HATE using the DV codec for export.

So, I export a QT 'None' file of my project (stand by to use a large hard drive for some of your projects...) and ensure that the proper QT format size parameters are invoked for DVD.  This will work for 16:9 or 4:3.  to 720 x 480.  Select the proper size both in the 'Format Options/Size' selectors, where dimensions are set through the drop-down menus and 'Preserve aspect ratio using Letterbox' would be appropriate, and then the 'Video Format' drop-downs on the main Export Settings page, using Crop/Pad as the appropriate selection.  This keeps the software from scrunching anything in the actual video to make it fit.   Give it a try on a short segment.  When you obtain the desired results, save those QT export settings, and fire for effect. This methodology preserves as much clarity and color space as possible, without resizing the video you've taken such pains to shoot and prepare.

As far as encoding, I've taken to using Episode for my DG FastChannel DropBox MPEG stuff (4:2:2 color space), as well as my Flash output. I still use BitVice for my MPEG2-to-master DVD app.

 I've been having some trouble making DVDs from Avid using the SAME AS SOURCE export -- and it has to do with interlacing.

I've tried using the Meridien compressed codec Progressive and I went through all the steps that the first post in this thread outlines, but when I pop the DVD into my player the motion blurring is terrible.  Is there a better way to de-interlace the SAME AS SOURCE export video for a DVD burn?

-JD

If you are playing your DVD on an NTSC set, you don't want to de-interlace. You want it interlaced, lower field first.

Is this what you are doing?

 Can't remember the exact settings on the Avid export but I don't recall doing that.  I'll try re-exporting lower field first and see what happens.  Thanks for your help!

Out of your Avid, export a QT ref, drop that into DVDSP and burn. That's really all there is to the basics of this. Adding menus, etc comes later but that's all you really need to do.

Unfortunately I don't have DVD Studio Pro on the same computer that I'm working with AVID on, so exporting self-contained files is the best way for me. One additional question: in the Avid Meridien Compressed codec there aren't any options for FIELD ORDER. However, I do have the option for 2:1 Interlaced, 2:1 Progressive, or 2:1 Single Field. Could Single Field potentially be a good choice for avoiding motion problems upon burning? -JD

No, output it in the resolution in which you are working. The field order will be lower field first if that's what you set in the export dialogue box.

jd, another thing to beware is mixing the raster sizes (resolutions) on your timeline. If something's 486 on a 480 timeline or visa versa, it'll go funky on you.  If all source clips are guaranteed the same, then the lower field first export will work.  For your purposes as a self-contained source, my earlier verbose post does achieve an adequate result.

Hey,

Definitely not mixing raster sizes.  All this stuff is coming from the same place -- all imported at MXF 2:1.  I feel like I'm missing something here because there is no option in any of the dialogue boxes for the Avid Meridien Compressed codec that offer a Lower Field setting.  When I export Same as Source I continue to find the same problem -- could this have something to do with the quality of the original imported clips?

Is there a setting within Compressor or any similar program that could solve this problem via re-encoding?

-JD

It also just occurrred to me --- I'm working on a 23.976 timeline in Avid exporting same as source, so naturally Avid is exporting PROGRESSIVELY.  Is there a way around this?  

Hi,

I know nobody has responded to this, but just to let you all know, it looks like the problem was the pullin from original capture.  I had a mask covering the keycode on my source footage, but when I looked back on it I was getting: A, B, B, D -- instead of the correct A, B, C, D that denotes a correct pullin.  The deck I used to capture all my source footage, as it turns out, is very old and does a poor job of capturing on the correct pullin frame.

It look 4 hours to re-batch capture and export but my footage finally looks normal upon a SAME AS SOURCE export.  Thanks for your help everyone!  I hope others can learn from my mistake.

-JD