Compressing effieciency question

[Blade Borge]

Hi I'm exporting a 1 min premiere pro file as a .mov. The .mov is set to air on the net. I'm trying to get it as small a file size as possible with as little loss of quality as possible, what would you use as the compression settings? Thanks in advance.

 

[Kevin Dorsey]

I've done a lot of trial and error using Premiere's export settings, and I've never achieved satisfactory results. I eventually just exported my files as uncompressed .mov and then compressed them using Quicktime Pro, using the h.264 settings. Small files with high quality. For some reason I could never get Premiere to match the quality of Quicktime pro.

I am currently using Sorenson squeeze and the results are fantastic.
-Kevin

 

[DCERVENKA]

Sacksnack - you are not alone! For quicktime I now use Soreson Squeeze ($$$$) and for window media files I use the FREE Windows Media Encoder (WME9)


Blade - Simply put, you are not going to have as much control using the adobe compression settings.

 

[ChuckS]

What version of PPro are you guys using?

I'm using the Adobe Media Encoder in PPro2 encoding to WM9HD and the results are very good.