• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Format to export with to create an HD Master?

  Posted by David Phifer on August 20, 2009 at 3:23 pm

  Hey Guys! I’m using Adobe Premiere/After Affects to edit a music video. What is the best format to export my final video with to create a master? I have HD 1080p footage I’musing. H.264 seems to keep high quality pretty well; is that the best format to use or is there a better one?

  If I have a high quality master, I can always save down to youtube and so forth, I just want the master to have the highest quality possible. Any info would be extremely helpful, thanks!

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  Jeff Brown

  August 21, 2009 at 2:05 pm

  Highest quality: uncompressed, one of
  File Sequence (TGA,DPX, etc.) | QTime Animation/100% | QTime PNG/100% | AVI Uncompressed

  Next best: QTime JPEG/95-100%

  Then: ProRes, h.264, etc.
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  George Socka

  August 22, 2009 at 12:45 am

  what is an HD master?

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  Tim Greene

  November 1, 2014 at 2:56 pm

  A HD Master is a non compressed video that is used for storing the video. Compressed formats degrade over time. a non compressed format would in theory last forever. This is not a format you would use to share with friend and it will be a very large file.

  I save it as a Tiff Image Sequence and save the audio as separate wav files.

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