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Exporting Quicktime PAL DV for theatrical screening
Hi,
I’m shooting 1080p and always worked on HD projects. But we will attend “48 Hour Film Project” next week, the short films will be screened in a theater and should be submitted as
- Self-contained
- Quicktime
- PAL SD (720×576)
- Without proprietary codecs
I’m working on Premiere Pro CS 5.5 . My videos are 1080p, progressive, 1.0 pixel aspect ratio. So I create the sequence as 720×576, 25 fps, 1.0 pixel aspect ratio, progressive. I resize the video, have letterboxing. So everything is fine.
But I do not know how to export this for submission.
- When the export format is “Quicktime” , the preset “PAL DV” uses Lower First field type and 1.0904 pixel a.r. which is not OK.
- If I say “custom” and codec “none” or “uncompressed YUV”, than the 5 minute file is around 7-10 GB.
- I can not select codec DV 25 PAL, it does not let me change it to progressive and 1.0 p.a.r.
So basically I do not know which codec I should choose. How I should export. If it was for web, I would choose h.264 but I am not sure if this is a good option for a festival submission.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Ivak -
2 Replies
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720×576 is not the best resolution for screening in a theater, so h264 can´t be bad for the same thing…
I would work in a 1080p sequence fitting the original footage frame rate, PAR, etc.. to keep an HD master, and then export to progressive 720×576 which will be letterboxed. H264 will be fine if you set a high bitrate, according to the maximun file size allowed.
Regards -
You should use whatever they say or contact them for additional info. I had to do some mastering for a 48 hour film competition and it was a pain dealing with all kinds of non standard stuff.
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