Premiere Codecs - which is uncompressed?

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selftaught

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Hey all.
So here's my problem. I need to export some video footage out of my project file to someone who's doing some fx work on it. Here's my first assumption, which is kind of also my first question: I think I need to get him uncompressed footage - is this correct? It seems to make sense, and I hear the more and more you compress something the more and more that clip's quality starts to deminish.
So if this is the case, that I need uncompressed footage, then what codec do I use? I'm using Premiere Pro 2.0. , and when I look in the export settings, I only see one obvious uncompressed option: Microsoft Uncompressed AVI. Now, when I tried to use it, it disabled the export video option - it will only let me export audio with this file type. So my question is, well...what's up with that? Is there a way to make it export the video as well? How about the other file types? I guess it's obvious that if there's a Microsoft AVI and a Uncompressed Microsoft AVI then only one of them is uncompressed. Last question: What's the difference between Microsoft AVI and Microsoft DV AVI? Thanks all.
 
I'm not sure what you mean by a .TIF sequence being uncompressed. Isn't a TIF export just the clip sliced into individual frames in .TIFF format? I'm a bit of an editing newbie, could you be more specific?
 
There are two ways to get uncompressed footage out of Premiere. The first is to use Uncompressed Microsoft avi, the second is to use Microsoft avi with the Compressor set to None. There are advantages and disadvantages to both.

Uncompressed Microsoft avi renders much faster, but it's actually encoded with a lossless codec that's not readable by most other programs. The full range of Adobe products (After Effects, Encore, Premiere etc.) will read it, but you won't be able to play it on most other programs.

The second option takes longer, but is universally readable. Depending on the size of your project, sometimes it might crash your program. I gave up using this option after wasting two days trying to render a 30 minutes HDV project; it keeps crashing.

Both options take up about the same space and are pretty much identical quality.
 
Ya I tried using Microsoft Uncompressed, but this option prohibits me from exporting video. In the settings, under General, there are 4 boxes to check: export video, ex. audio, add to project, and beep when finished. When I select Microsoft Uncompressed, the video check box fades out. Has anyone heard of this? How do I properly export Microsoft AVI Uncompressed? Does it have anything to do with the footage? I shot on 24pn.
 
selftaught said:
Ya I tried using Microsoft Uncompressed, but this option prohibits me from exporting video. In the settings, under General, there are 4 boxes to check: export video, ex. audio, add to project, and beep when finished. When I select Microsoft Uncompressed, the video check box fades out. Has anyone heard of this? How do I properly export Microsoft AVI Uncompressed? Does it have anything to do with the footage? I shot on 24pn.
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Even though you can't check the box, video is still output.


Just do like a 5 second clip and you'll see what I'm talking about.
 
You may also want to render to the Quicktime format with the Animation Codec set to 100%.

Also, if you chose Microsoft Uncompressed AVI, I believe the export video checkbox disappears because it's automatically going to render out video no matter what, so you don't have the option to NOT render out the video.

I would just use the Microsoft AVI setting and export it with the codec set to NONE. I do this because I also work in Sony Vegas and last time i tried, the Uncompressed Microsoft AVI file didn't work in Sony Vegas and I found that strange so I stay away from that setting.

Oh and yes, a .TIF sequence means that a .TIF still image file is exported for each frame. You can then import the images as a sequence that will play like normal footage.
 
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