Best Export Options for Music Video shot on Rebel t2i. Based on Experience...

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Hello everybody,
I recently finished editing a music video in premiere pro cs5 (mac) that was shot on a canon rebel t2i ... I am sort of new to PPro and I have a few questions in regard to exporting options.

1- What is the best export option to use for an archival copy of the video?

<--- i tried "quicktime animation" and the file came out as 36GB! :-O Is it normal practice to have archival copies that are that huge?

2- What is the best export option for a client who wants a small file of the music video with excellent quality? is there a standard format that people use in the business or does it all really depend on what the client plans on using the video for?

<---- what are some options that you guys can provide based on your experiences?
By the way ,I edited the files natively so there was no transcoding involved.

Thanks in advance!:thumbsup:
 
I would export it to match the sequence you edited with. For web, export it to H.264 or x264. For archive purpose, I would try Photo-Jpeg or Motion-Jpeg. Based on my experience and advice from guys like Andrew Kramer and Chad Perkins, it's best to use a codec like H.264 or Photo-Jpeg as they can give you small file sizes yet great quality. Also, if you need some additional quicktime codecs, head to the Avid website and download their quicktime codecs for free and test them out.
 
I tried using the "Match Sequence Settings" for the export but unfortunately all i get is an .mpeg (that when clicked shows up as a black screen) and an .XMP.

neither seems to work.

unfortunately there are no photo-jpeg or motion-jpeg options in the export menu. so i cant try those either. ill give the h.264 a shot.... would anyone know if the "blue ray" preset under h.264 is archive quality?
 
For web delivery, I agree that H.264 is probably the best it will get.

For archival purposes, you want something lossless. On the PC side three popular options are Uncompressed, Lagarith and UT. I don't know what kind of lossless codecs there are for the Mac.

The Animation codec is probably not the best option. As the name implies, it is designed for animation, with broad fields of identical colors. Moving video rarely has that, which makes the Animation codec less efficient.

Both Photo and Motion JPEG are lossy compression schemes, so they will not offer the best quality.

And yes, large file sizes are the norm for lossless compression. If you need more hard drive space, get some. Editing requires lots of it, that's a fact best accommodated rather than worked around.
 
Why not just keep the original media straight from the camera as your archival format? Or are you talking about an archival quality format for your completed video?

You can always just keep your project/media files together and trim the project after you're done. Winzip it if required and then you have your original project file and original media which you can render out to any format you want in the future.

If that's not an option then yeah, Prores 4:2:2 or DNxHD would be your best options.
 
If your uploading to Youtube in CS5 the best quality you can get is a CBR 2 pass as an FLV file as it is one of the only codecs that let you do a CBR 2 pass plus FLV is the native Youtube format.
 
What is the advantage of CBR 2 Pass? If the Bit rate is constant then how is the second pass going to help? I have seen this is several software packages recently and it does not make sense to me. Can anybody elaborate?
 
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