• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Which are the optimal render settings for my full HD short movie?

  Posted by Michi Schranner on February 25, 2010 at 9:47 am

  Hi,

  I am sitting at my computer trying to optimize the render settings for my 7 minutes short movie. As I have nearly no experience with all the adjustable parameters in Adobe Premiere, I really need help with the settings. It would be great if someone could give me some advice how I set things up.

  The footage was shot with a Canon 5D Mk II in a 1920×1080 resolution (H.264 Codec) in a .mov format.

  I imported my after effects projects into premiere, click on “export->media” and have to adjust the render settings. What do you think of the following:

  Format: H.264 (-> the output format would be .mp4)
  Frame width & height: 1920×1080
  Framerate: 30 fps
  pixel aspect ratio: square pixel
  profile: main
  Level: 5.0 (<-- is that okay?) Bitrate Encoding: VBR 2 Pass Target Bitrate [Mbps]: 14 (<-- Does this value make sense?) Maximum Bitrate [Mbps]: 14 (<-- Does this value make sense?) Keyframe distance: 33 I would be happy about every bit of advice. I wish you a sunny day... Michi

  Jeff Brown replied 16 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jeff Brown

  February 25, 2010 at 4:38 pm

  The important question is: where is this movie going?
  Desktop playback, DVD, archiving, broadcast, etc….

  -jeff
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  Michi Schranner

  February 25, 2010 at 4:59 pm

  Sorry it was stupid not to mention that:
  The short movie is for a presentation via pc and video projector (probably full HD) in a short movie competition. So, the quality has to be as high as possible.

  Michi
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  Jeff Brown

  March 1, 2010 at 3:44 pm

  The competition should be providing guidelines. If not, assume a “lowest-common-denominator”, and author to Blu-Ray. That would be my approach, anyway.

  -jeff

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