• Adobe Premiere Pro

  H.263 encoding

  Posted by Stamos Dimitro on May 25, 2016 at 2:19 pm

  So I have been asked by my client to deliver the finished video in these awkward specs:

  Format : MPEG-4
  Format profile : Base Media
  Codec ID : isom
  File size : 156 MiB
  Duration : 2mn 56s
  Overall bit rate : 7 413 Kbps
  Encoded date : UTC 2014-09-30 19:46:29
  Tagged date : UTC 2014-09-30 19:46:29
  Writing application : Lavf51.12.1

  Video
  ID : 1
  Format : MPEG-4 Visual
  Format profile : Simple@L1
  Format settings, BVOP : No
  Format settings, QPel : No
  Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
  Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
  Codec ID : 20
  Duration : 2mn 56s
  Bit rate : 7 411 Kbps
  Width : 1 920 pixels
  Height : 1 080 pixels
  Display aspect ratio : 16:9
  Frame rate mode : Constant
  Frame rate : 25.000 fps
  Color space : YUV
  Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
  Bit depth : 8 bits
  Scan type : Progressive
  Compression mode : Lossy
  Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.143
  Stream size : 156 MiB (100%)
  Writing library : Lavc51.40.4
  Language : English
  Encoded date : UTC 2014-09-30 19:46:29
  Tagged date : UTC 2014-09-30 19:46:29

  After some research I realized that Premiere has the option for MPEG-4 export (different than H.264 export), but the settings are very limited. Specifically it won’t let you make the resolution more than 720×576. So how can I export the requested file?

  Mike Buckhout replied 10 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Stamos Dimitro

  May 25, 2016 at 3:26 pm

  Unfortunately the MPEG-4 option in adobe media encoder seems to be missing the necessary profiles to export the video I need (SEE IMAGE). H.263 encoding seems like a rare case and even though there are profiles to export HD video, Adobe premiere doesn’t offer them, so I wonder if anybody knows a plug-in or maybe another software to achieve this encoding.

  
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  Mike Buckhout

  May 25, 2016 at 5:25 pm

  It looks like the information you have was copy/pasted from MediaInfo, an app that tells you everything about an existing file. I would say they have this file and don’t really know how it was made, but they want you to make something new that will work with their system so they gave you the specs from that older file.

  Agree with Dave, just tell them you can’t do H.263 and send them an H.264 with the other specs matched up, like dimensions, framerate and overall bitrate. It should be fine.

  If they want a fixed target file size then the bitrate will have to be adjusted which I doubt is they really want.

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