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Am I missing Something or is premiere terrible at compressing video?
I was given this awful project where I had to take this guys presentation slides and match it to his lecture audio then push it out as mp4 so he could load it on his website (im not being a jerk by saying it was awful – he told me it was going to be god awful)
anyways I dropped the frame rate down to 2 frames a second since these were static slides, I played around with compression for what seem like eternity. No matter what I did it came out a muddy mess.
After pulling my hair out for a while I imported the premiere project into after effects and on my first try with 2 frames per second and keyframe distance at 1 in compression the file came out beautiful AND small. So why is it that the same settings in after effects came out exponentially better than when I tried it in premiere? Am I doing something wrong or is this a deal breaker?
cody campbell
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Hi there,
I don’t believe the MainConcept H.264/MPEG-4 Encoders out of Premiere or AME can do anything less than 10fps. Even if you were to setup a Sequence at 2 fps…
How were you able to setup AME/Export for 2fps?
AE on the other hand can (and is often used) to render out all sorts of weirdness. 😉
It doesn’t mean you did anything wrong, just asking the question. 😉
PK
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You are missing something.
John D. Frey
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I did a quicktime with both h264 and mp4.. I was given the option of 1,5,6,10 yada yada
even at 10frames and a larger file size– text on the slides was not legible
Just because noone understands you does not make you an artist
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thanks for the incite.. what am i missing then
Just because noone understands you does not make you an artist
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How about exporting a still frame of each slide as a jpg or png since they’re static slides. You can then bring them into the Premiere project and extend the still as long as you like on the timeline.
Rick
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You have not told us much about your workflow, such as how long the program is, deliverable specs ect. but i am trying to figure out why you would want to drop your encoded framerate to 2fps.
when you could:
-cut your project in PPro (Where I assume it looks fine) then…
-FileExportMedia or cnmd+m
-in adobe media encoder choose the codec you would like, adjust the parameters to meet your deliverable specs, set your bitrate and encode.PPro does not compress video for output, that is a job for another program.
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You can view Richard Harington’s Adobe media encoder tut here:
https://library.creativecow.net/harrington_richard/Premiere-Pro_Adobe-Media-Encoder/1
“Think of everything in terms of building capacity.”
Kris Merkel
twitter @kris_merkel
Product Specialist, Flanders Scientific Inc.
http://www.shopfsi.com
Co-Founder, Atlanta Cutters Post Production User Group
http://www.atlantacutters.com2.2Ghz MBP core i7
16Gb RAM
CS 5.5
FCP7 and Studio
Blackmagic Design UltraStudio 3D
AJA IO XT
FSI LM-2340W
2TB Max Digital Pro Edit2 VR
1TB LaCie Thunderbolt
1TB CalDigit FW VR
2TB LaCie Big disk
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Hi Cody….
This might be an input side problem.
So you are starting with slide files?
Are the slide files of matching resolution to each other?How did you determine the sequence setting for use in PPro?
Assuming you can get the slide gfx into a common resolution (say in Photoshop), you might then use one of the slides as the basis of sequence resolution in PPro, by dragging the slide file in the project panel down on to the “new sequence” button at the bottom of the project panel.
Now with a sequence that matches that resolution as you basis..you may have better luck getting a higher quality final output from AME.
This is a guess on my part. basically, if you are starting with computer based images, but dropping them onto a lower resolution timeline (like say NTSC or whatever your default is), this would likely give you pretty bad output.
Let me know if that helps.
Alex
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