Export Settings

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John M

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Hello guys,

Im currently running CS4 and these past few days I've been having trouble exporting my work out of Premiere Pro via the Adobe Media Encoder.

The troubles specifically are as follows:

1) The quality of my video is poor. I am unsure as to what I should export my footage as. Generally I've found that exporting a quicktime file with the codec DV/DVCPRO - NTSC has given me the best results but even then they aren't the greatest.

2) My export will have a strange frame strobing effect.


Below you will find links to two videos I've exported:

Test: http://vimeo.com/7438644
I exported this video using the media encoder. The file is a quicktime file with the codecDV/DVCPRO50 - NTSC. It displays that odd motion effect I refereed to above.

Test 2: http://vimeo.com/7441102
I exported this video by importing my source footage into adobe premiere elements version 4 and just using the export settings there (Microsoft DV - AVI). The file is an .AVI. This is more along the lines of the quality i'm looking for although I can't seem to achieve it with cs4 even when I export out of Cs4 as an AVI file.

I recorded my images with a dvx100b in 24p mode (not advance, just regular). I imported my footage into cs4 with an old dv camera. The sequence presets when I captured were as follows: DV - 24P > Wide Screen 48KHZ and I have not done anything to change them. My source files that I got through captruing this way are all .AVI files running at 29 frames a second.

So anyway, every time I export, something always goes wrong. I've looked up export settings on the web and everything I try gives me weird results. I'm not sure where my problem lies. I mean, seeing as how Premiere Pro CS4 is an upgraded version of elements I am baffled by the fact that Premiere Elements gives me better export results.

Have a good day.

Regards,

John M
 
Do you have PP 4.1 or later?

Are you seeing the "29.97" frame rate in the Project window?

If so, try capturing some using your DVX instead of the consumer cam and see if it makes a difference, i.e., the frame rate of the footage reads as 23.976.

Try exporting to H.264 or MP4 instead of DV or DVCPRO.
 
I do not have the latest version 4.1 or later. I'm running version 4, however needless to say I'll be getting the update ASAP.

In the project window I am not seeing the frame rate 29.97. Pretty much every time I see a frame rate when working it's always some variation of 23.976 or DV24P or something like that. The only time that I see 29.97 as a frame rate is when I right click on a clip in my time line and go to properties where it says the frame rate is this: Frame Rate: 29.97 (24p).

I don't think that my frame rate problem has anything to do with the camera I captured on because all my source files look fine when I play them. Also the preview in the editing program has no frame rate issues.

I exported to H.264 with MP4 as the multiplexer and the actual quality of the video was fine except the frame rate issue was still there (I made sure every setting I could had the frame rate of 23.976 before I exported). Also the aspect ratio was off even though I set everything to widescreen. And when I say the aspect ratio was off the exported video was stretched vertically and it was also at 4:3.

Is there no setting I can use that will just export a same as source .AVI? In premiere elements (the low end version of CS4) The preview files are Microsoft DV AVI and the exported project is the same as the source so there is no frame rate, quality or aspect ratio issues. I'm not particularly well versed in video editing but I'm pretty sure that my problem lies within how I'm exporting because all my video before the export looks just fine.

Also, thank you for your quick reply. I really appreciate that. Any other thoughts would be greatly appreciated as well.

Regards,

John M
 
Well, without 4.1 or later, you will not have automatic 24p pulldown removal on the timeline; that functionality is restored with 4.1. So, in the clip properties, while it still recognizes that there's 24p footage in the 29.97 stream, it can't get at the native 24p frames without using Interpret Footage.

Thus, if you're trying to cut on a 24p timeline with the footage, and you haven't removed the pulldown, you may get surprises such as you're seeing when you go to export -- the interpretation of the footage may well have been way off.

You won't see this problem if you do everything as 60i (a standard NTSC timeline), because there won't be anything to interpolate; it'll all just be treated as 29.97. Elements will do this because there's no 24p support and it won't even consider the possibility.

So, try things with the latest updates installed; it might not be necessary, but try re-capturing the footage, too. Then, do everything as 24p -- the timeline and the export (you can go to straight 23.976 progressive using H.264, WMV, etc. -- DV will not be). See if the problem persists.
 
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