• Adobe Premiere Pro

  media encoder and quicktime H264

  Posted by Michael Goldberg on August 31, 2010 at 3:45 pm

  Hi,
  I’ve been trying to encode various videos for use on the web. I find that I get the best results using Quicktime H264. My problem is that I can’t seem to get the file down to a reasonable size. I’m using H264 from within the Quicktime format (I’ve tried using H264 as the format, but it doesn’t seem to come out as clean). No matter what I set the bitrate to, the file and quality are always the same. Shouldn’t the file size come down, as I reduce the bitrate and vice versa? I have a 1 minute video that I’m trying to get down to about 10-20mb and fairly clean. I’m compressing to 400 x 300 (to fit in a web window), and I’ve used various bitrate settings, and i always end up approx the same file size (125-128mb). Any ideas on what I may be doing wrong?
  Thanks,
  Mike

  Sabri Liefert replied 15 years, 7 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

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  Greg Brand

  August 31, 2010 at 4:32 pm

  Hi there Mike

  not 100% sure if what you are explaining is all through AME but…
  I always follow this process when trying to get good HD video with smaller file size for the web.

  1. encode out of Adobe Media Encoder as Quicktime Animation codec
  this will give you quite a large file size 10Gb +

  2. open that encoded video in Quicktime 7 Pro and export out with the H.264 Codec

  should get the file size down but keep the quality high.
  normally anything above 4000kbs should be ok quality for HD and below 6000kbs should keep the file size down.

  good luck and shout if you need a screen shot of the settings i normally use.

  cheers

  Greg

  https://gregbrand.co.uk
• 

  Michael Goldberg

  August 31, 2010 at 4:43 pm

  Hi,
  Thanks Greg,
  I was hoping to avoid the two processes. I’m trying to find a happy medium using only the media encoder within premiere.

  Mike
• 

  Mike Cohen

  September 3, 2010 at 12:47 am

  I find that the Quicktime export settings in AME do not offer h.264. We export h.264 files with the Adobe codec – this plays in Quicktime player, although not reliably in iTunes. Quicktime Pro is the definitive way to get videos iTunes ready.

  Mike Cohen
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  Sabri Liefert

  October 3, 2010 at 11:34 pm

  Hi,

  AME offer the ability to do H.264 in a Quicktime Container:

  

  but with this setting i get far inferior results
  as encoding with the AME H.264 Mainconcept Encoder!???:

  

  This is under Windows 7 64bit. All CS5 programms are up to date. Quicktime is also updated.

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