Incredible Compression Secret

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Huy Vu

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I just recently discovered this method to get amazing compression quality at a relatively small file size out of Premiere Pro 2.0 so I thought I share it here. Turns out that the Export for Clip Notes at High Preset will give you a great results. All you have to do is chose the High Preset and then extract the .wmv file from the resulting PDF. For a five and a half minute video, the resulting 77 mb file handily beat out my 246 mb MPEG file (using MPEG-2 DVD Adobe Media Encoder, High Quality Presets). It's like night and day. Here's the basic steps:

1) Export for Clip Notes, High Quality Presets.
2) Open the resulting PDF, leave it open.
3) Go into Documents and Settings/User Name/Local Settings/Temp. You'll see a wmv file present. Copy and Paste into another directory.
4) Close PDF, and rename the .wmv file.

NOTE: the Local Setting folder is a hidden folder so you might have to go into Tools, select Folder Options and then File Type to enable viewing of hidden folders.

Hope this helps!
 
Erm, Jade, I'm not really understanding your mention of PDF. Example "2) Open the resulting PDF, leave it open." Isn't PDF a format to read word documents that have been converted to PDF? I'm not really following your steps. Could you please explain again? Thanks.
 
Adobe Clipnotes actually embed a .wmv file inside a PDF file so that you can send it to your client for preview. The advantage is that a client can make comments directly into the PDF file which can then be imported back into the Premiere timeline. To extract this embedded .wmv file, you would open the PDF, which would cause your system to open the .wmv file inside it's temp folder. That's why you have to leave the PDF opens. The gist of it is: 1) open the PDF, 2) copy and paste the embedded .wmv file to another directory.
 
...Or you could just encode a WMV out of P-Pro 2.0 with 2-pass VBR at about 512Kbps stream with a 320x240 video frame.


h.264 is better quality than WMV when done right (Not using quicktime.)

I need to write an h.264 guide. (I have an mpeg-4 guide on my blog right now)
 
Dang....if the compression is as good as you say it is...do you think an upgrade from 1.5 - 2.0 is worth it?

Rick
 
rlm7189 said:
Dang....if the compression is as good as you say it is...do you think an upgrade from 1.5 - 2.0 is worth it?

Rick
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I wouldn't upgrade on the basis on this feature alone. But version 2.0 is really a huge improvement over 1.5 in term of the tools and the interface.
 
I've only try the quicktime method once and for some reason my comp couldn't open the resulting pdf. Might be a render error, I'll try it and let you know.
 
I dn't have Export for Clip Notes

I dn't have Export for Clip Notes

My PP2 does not have that option anywhere. How do I get it??

Philip
 
rlm7189 said:
do you think an upgrade from 1.5 - 2.0 is worth it?
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The upgrade is well worth it. Not just for this hack but for what PP2 supports natively. Great things like a new Render engine that renders better and faster.
 
Philip_38 said:
My PP2 does not have that option anywhere. How do I get it??

Philip
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Select the timeline, then go into Sequence and select Export for Clip Notes.

Before you do that though go to the Adobe site, download and install a patch for the Clip Notes. The stock version has a bug where sometimes you don't get audio.
 
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