In FCPX you can export a movie in Apple MPEG-4-film or MPEG-4-film. What's the difference?
You should generally use the first (Computer) setting as that produces .mp4 files which are almost universally compatible.
The second produces .m4v which will not play back on as many devices.
You should generally use the first (Computer) setting as that produces .mp4 files which are almost universally compatible.
The second produces .m4v which will not play back on as many devices.
As BenB said, there is not much difference between .mp4 and .m4v.
AFAIK about the only difference is that .m4v has an option for DRM protection. If some site insists using .mp4, then usually (always?) just changing the suffix from .m4v to .mp4 should do it.
Final Cut Pro "Apple Devices" preset exports .m4v and "Computer" preset exports .mp4 with slightly faster bitrate and maybe slightly better quality.
All that said, I've always just changed the suffix of video files from .m4v to .mp4 and they work universally. Never found one to not play on anything but a smart TV's USB port, which is problematic on all TVs.
The major difference in those two settings are that one encodes higher quality, taking longer to analyze the raw material (multi-pass encoding) while the other does one quick pass of encoding, giving you a not as good image quality. 90% of the time, in our studio's testing, no one can tell the difference.
If you choose 'Apple Devices' you get an Apple MPEG-4-film.
If you choose 'computer' you get an MPEG-4-film.
Oké!
So I should use the 'computer' setting when I want to put the video online.
Could you post screenshots showing where you get these choices?
Thank you!
That's what I was looking for. Thank you for the link.
Apple MPEG-4-film versus MPEG-4-film
