HELP ME GET "Diner for Two" TO THE SCREENING!

armisiano

armisiano

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My arch nemesis in the entire filmmaking process had reared it's ugly head again: EXPORTING!

I SUCK at exporting. It is what I am consistantly by FAR the worst at. Remember the mess "STUPENDOUS: THE MOVIE" was? And before that "SIXTY SECONDS"? It never ends.

So, here's the thing: I need to export "Diner for Two" at full res, burn the file to a disc, and mail it in. So, I've exported it as an avi, and the file is 23 gigs. Way too large to fit onto a DVD-R.

What do I need to do? What format? How do I go about it? I am using Adobe Premiere CS3. Please help, quickly. Today (July 16th) is my birthday. Your present to me: helping me get this film on the big screen for the 2nd Annual DVXFest.
 
I've had good luck with high bit rate h264's out of Media Encoder. I get the same audio shift as you do, but have just been duplicating the final timeline shifting all the audio 4 frames and calling that my "h264 version". You'll have to play with the bitrates to get it too look nice, but that shouldnt be too hard.

Used to use this method with HD convention playback off of a ps3. H264's played right off the hard drive, no need to burn blu-rays or anything.
 
...heading out, have a gig from now to noon. Please everyone keep throwing ideas and solutions up on this thread and I will check it out once I get back. Thank you all so much, really. What would dvxuser be without its members?
 
I am not very familiar with Adobe Premiere. Can you export any kind of reference file? I do most of my HD encoding within Quicktime Pro and it works like a champ :) (As long as you watch your gamma levels and correct accordingly)
 
Tony,

You won't be able to do full res obviously. They said you could encode it in DVCPRO. So you could export it as a quicktime using the DVCPRO HD codec. This should look pretty dang good. (I'm not sure of the exact naming but it's something like that)
 
So I've exported as an .mov using the h.264 codec, it's full resolution, looks good (in my opinion) and is only 1.09 gigs. That's using the highest possible bitrate setting possible.

Does this sound like a wise decision? A good quality method?

What are the other finalists doing?

Feedback, please.
 
No h.264 is a web-ready compression.... do it like this...

- Export to QuickTime (.MOV)
- Settings: DVCProHD 720p60
- Size: Compressor Native (Leave "Maintain Aspect Ratio" UNCHECKED if your video's 16x9... if it's something different, check that box!)
- Uncheck the box that says "Prepare for Internet Streaming"
- Leave the Sound Settings at they're default

With that you should get a file between 1 and 2 gigs and you'll be good to go!
 
Here are my compressor options as I see them:

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use quick time conversion if using fcp, then go to options and use hdv 1080/24p select best quality, size i think it's going to be 1980x1280 or just the last one in the list, then let it cook...

g.
 
abalex said:
use quick time conversion if using fcp, then go to options and use hdv 1080/24p select best quality, size i think it's going to be 1980x1280 or just the last one in the list, then let it cook...

g.
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abalex said:
blindbusta's settings are also good.
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I feel bad saying this, but you havn't read any of my posts in this thread, have you? I'm using adobe premiere cs3, not fcp, and I can't do what blindbusta said because I don't have that option, as I showed in an above post that even included a picture.
 
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