Premiere Pro 1.5 export settings

Craig Ryan

Craig Ryan

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Hi all, thank you for spending time to read this. As the topic suggests, I have some issues with exporting and compression. I edited in Premiere 6.5 for a about a year and a half and recently upgraded to 1.5 pro. With Premiere 6.5 I exported with Divx (not pro) and just set the bitrate at max to attain a decent picture while maintaining a file size to fit on a standard 4.7gb DVD. I am pretty oblivious to the aspects of compression and exporting and was wondering what the BEST compressor would be for Premiere Pro. I am also purchasing a DXV100a within the month and will be shooting with the anamorphic adaptor, hopefully. But for now, i have footage shot in 4:3 and need some advice on what the best export settings and compressor would be. I appreciate your time and suggestions.

-Craig
 
If you want to make a video DVD, you need to export in MPEG2 (there are lots of great presets in "File>Export>Adobe Media Encoder".

If you're just storing data files on DVD (to be watched only on computer), then you've got lots of options. Personally, I like the WMV codec (also File>Export>Adobe Media Encoder). Pick the highest "download" preset, and then go into "Audiences" and crank that bitrate up a little. I've had great success with bitrate of about 3000kbps, gives great picture and is still small enough to fit on (and stream off) a dvd (you don't want to make your files *too* big, e.g. uncompressed video, or else the DVD drive won't be able to keep up with the video).

You can also use DivX is that's what you're used to - the codecs are more or less independent of the editing program (though Premiere ships with some). If you have DivX ecoder installed on your system it should come up when you go File>Export>Movie... >Settings
 
Thanks alot for the reply, I appreciate it. I'm doing some tests now, exporting with Adobe Encoder which I strangely never really thought to use before. So far I'm getting great results with the DVD Mpeg2 encoder. Thanks again.
 
One thing to remember: if you're using the DVD Mpeg2 encoder for exporting, and you're just going to throw those mpeg2 files on a data DVD (rather than burning them as a proper video DVD), make sure you turn on multiplexing. If you don't, audio and video will be in seperate files, which can confuse some programs.
 
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