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How to export as MPEG
Hi there,
I know there is probably a simple answer to this question but i can’t figure it out for the life of me. I’m using Premiere Pro CS5 on Windows 7 x64 and editing HDV 1080 60i footage. When I go to export, I go to File->Export->Media-> and check the box “Match Sequence Settings” (because I want no loss of quality/an MPEG file)and under the summary arrow it says Quality 50 and under the video tab everything becomes grayed out and I am unable to move the quality slider. Can anyone help me? Thanks so much!
-Matt H.
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6 Replies
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Hi Matt,
Everything is grayed out because you chose “Match Sequence Settings” -you essentially put AME on auto-pilot.
What is the purpose of the export – archiving a master video file? Please let us know your end goal and we can offer suggestions then for best settings
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
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Jeff,
Thanks so much for the reply! Yes, I’m trying to break up the original 10 gig MPEG file into 10 one-gig pieces so I can send it to someone. Thanks!
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Hi Matt,
Are you sending this to someone that needs to do more editing to it, where they need a large that large? If not, and they just need to view it, then you’ll want a more efficient codec. You could export to H.264 and have a much smaller file, still with very good quality.
Let me know
Thanks
Jeff
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Hello, sorry to revive this, but I’m a little curious about this myself. Please let me explain my workflow.
I have just completed my first short film. Using Canon HV30, edited using the HDV1080p25 sequence preset. I had 17 scenes which got a little complicated for one Premiere project, so each scene was edited in it’s own project file. Each scene was then exported with Match Sequence Settings ticked, and this gave me a Master mpeg, which when all 17 were completed got placed into a new project which made up the final film. Music was added here, along with any other sound effects, and then this was then exported as h.264 for web delivery.
However, I have been curious that the Match Sequence Settings in the Export dialogue box all quality settings are greyed out and Quality is set at 50. Why is this not set to 100 by default? Surely 50 is losing me 50% of quality in the export? Or does this setting just ‘merge’ all my trimmed clips into a new single version of the same file, with all bit rates and data rates as they would be for each clip, as if straight out the camera?
Or am I completely wrong?
Thanks, sorry but this is my first post here.
Russ
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Hi Russ,
I don’t know about the quality slider thing, but maybe a change of workflow would make things simpler, and increase quality. Within a single Project, you can have multiple Sequences. So rather than create 17 projects, and export 17 videos, create ONE project with 17 Sequences, and then create a “Master” sequence where you string together all the sequences, then export to final delivery format. This will improve quality by taking out a generation of rendering, and save time and drive space by not doing 17 exports.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Jeff, thanks. Yeah I did this in the early days, but over 900 elements at half way stage really slowed project opening time down, and strained my CPU. I organised my assets into bins, this made it easier to find stuff but it was so slow to work.
So, am I right that match export settings is still lossy? I was hoping to literally ‘match’ the sequence settings with no quality loss.
Not that I’ve lost much, my final output is HDV 1280×720 so I’ve scaled down a step. Or was this a bad move?
Russ
Canon HV30 | Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 | Windows 7
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