H.264 compression with PPro 1.5
- Thread starter LloydC
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Kevin Dorsey
Veteran
Don't know how to fix it...but I quit trying to use Premiere to export quicktime files. I export an uncompressed quicktime and encode using Quicktime Pro. Huge difference in quality. I've tried a lot of different settings but I've never been able to get satisfactory results with Premiere.
Demistate
Veteran
As an alternate solution, you can use StaxRip , a totally freeware program for encoding Mpeg 4 solutions, including Quicktime 7 Mpeg-4 solutions (Xvid in an MP4 container with AAC audio)
Be warned, you better know the technical terminology for Mpeg 4 stuff and file formats.
Also if you encode as an mp4 format, anybody with quicktime can play it, and anybody with an mpeg-4 decoder in their media player can play it (*cough* linux people*cough*)
http://www.planetdvb.net/staxrip/
And by the way if you are using quicktime, I wouldn't even call it h.264, because when you encode a real h.264 file with any other h.264 encoder, quicktime chokes and doesn't read it. Quicktime is only capeable of reading the baseline profile, with limited settings.
Be warned, you better know the technical terminology for Mpeg 4 stuff and file formats.
Also if you encode as an mp4 format, anybody with quicktime can play it, and anybody with an mpeg-4 decoder in their media player can play it (*cough* linux people*cough*)
http://www.planetdvb.net/staxrip/
And by the way if you are using quicktime, I wouldn't even call it h.264, because when you encode a real h.264 file with any other h.264 encoder, quicktime chokes and doesn't read it. Quicktime is only capeable of reading the baseline profile, with limited settings.