QT reference in Premiere CS3?

[Andrew Brinkhaus]

Is it possible to export a Quicktime Reference file from Premiere, or from Adobe Media Encoder?

I am away from my computer for a while so I don't have access and need to know. Thanks.

 

[cbrougham]

Not from a PC version of Premiere Pro; the Mac version may be different, but I've never used PPro on the Mac.

Another option, though not as elegant or efficient as a QT Ref, is to use Debugmode FrameServer. Using it, you export a small AVI file using the FrameServer plugin. You then import the AVI into whichever application you're going to (ie. Squeeze, Encore, etc) and then the FrameServer hands off frames to the target app from the timeline in PPro. Works pretty slick, and avoids large intermediate files. The downside is that the FrameServer is actively dishing out frames from your open timeline, so you can't batch export. Other than that, it's great--I do all of my "outside of Premiere" encodes this way.