Adobe keeps squeezing my film

mjjason

mjjason

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I recently shot a short film on my HVX200 using the 720 24PN setting. I dumped it into Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 for editing and it worked great. Now I am trying to export the sequence but no matter what settings I try the film looks squeezed and overly compressed.

I tried Uncompressed Microsoft AVI but nothing could play that. I then tried Microsoft AVI with Frame Size set to 960x720 but that came out squeezed and overly compressed. I tried a bunch of other settings but nothing maintained the correct aspect ratio of the original footage.

What is the best way to export footage from Adobe so that it maintains the proper aspect ration and minimizes compression?
 
Hi,

You don't mention what the purpose of the video is which is key to what the settings would be.

You also suggest that you don't want much compression, but in general what everyone really wants is a lot of compression, but just very good compression, there's a big difference.

If you post what the destination is for the project - DVD or Web, or if you plan to have it transferred to film - whatever, I'm sure someone can help.

For a DVD, and keeping the properties you have, in the Adobe Media Encoder, select the NTSC Progressive Widescreen DVD Hiqh Quality Preset.



Then modify the frame rate (assuming you shot at 24fps) to 23.976.

I'd likely recommend that you select the Multiplexer tab, too.
multiplexer.jpg


and check the radio button for DVD. That way the audio and video will be muxed together into one file.

That might not be what you want, since you don't indicate what kind of file you are looking for.
 
Thanks for the help. The target right now is for the TwilightFest Entry. I will be using Quicktime Pro to compress the file down the 50Mb limit using th.h264 codec but I want something decent out of Adobe before that.
 
You already have a pretty good encoder in Adobe's Media Encoder. Depending upon the real estate you need, and the length of your show, you should be able to encode out of the encoder from the timeline.

It would save a step, and I doubt it would cost you any quality hits.
 
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