• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Premiere Pro 2 convert AVI at 720×480 to 320×240

  Posted by Onroad44 on May 28, 2007 at 4:30 pm

  I’m trying to convert AVI’s at 720×480 to web format (youtube) at 320×240. I’m using Premiere’s build in Media Encoder as well as Sorenson Squeeze 4 but the output files are very blurry. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Jevans replied 19 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Steven L. gotz

  May 29, 2007 at 12:11 am

  I like the way that the Mr. Deity folks compress their videos so I tried their way and got reasonable results.

  The method was to export a DV AVI from Premiere Pro, then follow these instructions from the guys who do “Mr. Deity” https://mrdeity.com/

  Before uploading, convert the file with QuickTime Pro to h.264, 480×360 pixels at 24fps, better quality, and with a keyframe every 24 frames. The audio is set to AAC, VBR 96-110, 32k stereo.

  I left mine at 29.97 but the rest seemed to do the trick. It still looks better when you click the button that makes it 320X240.

  My best YouTube output so far:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GxYqIyyeW4

  Keep in mind that Youtube doesn’t do that great a job encoding to Flash.

  Steven
  https://www.stevengotz.com

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  Jevans

  May 31, 2007 at 2:31 am

  Hi there. I’m using Squeeze as well, and have found it creates awesome results for web-based video. This is my method and my videos look almost perfect (considering how small they are in file size)

  I export an uncompressed .avi from Premiere of whatever I want online. I don’t bother with Media Encoder, I just do a straight export and set it to Microsoft AVI Uncompressed (audio as well uncompressed). The resulting file size can be quite huge, but I just delete the file once I have compressed it in Squeeze.

  Open the uncompressed file in Squeeze. I output from Squeeze as Quicktime 1MB/s setting. I set the kb/s to 1600 for the video, change the frame size to 320×240 (for 4:3). Keep in mind YouTube videos are actually a bit larger, but they incode themselves rather poorly. I set the audio to a 128 kbs MP3 at best quality.

  For every 2 minutes the resulting file size is about 15 MB. Considering the original files are almost 1GB, that’s pretty damned good compression when you see the results. I have had no blurry video from Squeeze.

  Hope this helps.

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