Can’t figure out how to export a movie to a smaller format!

[Darren Edwards]

This is for Premiere Pro 1 and above.

Firstly, you need to ignore ‘Export Movie’ and Premiere’s
default Quicktime (et al.) codecs for DVAVI. You need to
select the same Export box but scroll down to Media
Encoder. You should now be faced with a selection box offering
every type of encoding option from MPEG2 DVD to MPEG
4 etc.

Select the Windows Media Player 9 presets and experiment with
the various presets until you’re happy with the results.

Tips:

– When uploading a 16:9 film to YouTube/Google etc., import
it into a 4:3 project first, and then reARC (shrink) it to 76%,
then save it (using Media Encoder) as a ‘4:3’ or ‘Square Pixels’
project in your Options. That why you’ll maintain your aspect
ratio.
– Selecting ‘2 pass’ as opposed to ‘1’ means that PPro will,
basically, encode it twice thus doubling your rendering time.
The difference is minimal if you’re making little 320 x …
WMVs.
– You can save custom codecs, which is very useful once you
start using Premiere for exporting AVIs as MPEG2 for DVD projects,
etc.

My 10 minute films I upload to YouTube begin life at about 1.5GB
but are 75megs when I finish. They still look really sharp,
but unfortunately, once YouTube’s codec machines get their
hands on it, it’s quite pitiful.

I’ve been tweaking my Premiere/16:9/WMV/YouTube settings for quite
a while. If you’d like a copy of the settings I use, let me know.
You can see the quality of what’s left once they reach MySpace at:
http://www.myspace.com/xgfmedia

Cheers,
Darren.

x-gf.com

[Zvi Twersky]

Darren, thank you so much for your reply! Yes, I would be VERY appreciative if you can give me your settings. You can send them to me on https://www.myspace.com/175897438, or email, or here! (Not much to see on my space… I just joined last week 🙂

Thanks again! Can’t wait to get your settings 🙂

[Darren Edwards]

No worries, Zvi.

I’ll email you screenshots of the encoding process, which should
make a bit life easier, okay. Will be done tomorrow. In the meantime,
check out PPro’s help file on what its ‘Media Encoder’ does.

Cheers,
Darren.

x-gf.com

[Zvi Twersky]

Will do! Thanks again!

[Darren Edwards]

Zvi,

Some screenshots for you. If you need more specific help,
let me know, okay.

Also, let me know once you have the graphics so I can delete
them off my server.

Cheers,
Darren.

https://www.x-gf.com/misc/PPro_transcode_tut_1.jpg
https://www.x-gf.com/misc/PPro_transcode_tut_2.jpg
https://www.x-gf.com/misc/PPro_transcode_tut_3.jpg
https://www.x-gf.com/misc/PPro_transcode_tut_4.jpg
https://www.x-gf.com/misc/PPro_transcode_tut_5.jpg

x-gf.com

[Darren Edwards]

Zvi,

There’s are the screenshots you need. Let me know once you’ve
downloaded them so I can delete them off my server. Also, if
there’s anything more specific I can help with, just ask (or
do it though MySpace, for example.)

Good luck.
Cheers,
Darren.

https://www.x-gf.com/misc/PPro_transcode_tut_1.jpg
https://www.x-gf.com/misc/PPro_transcode_tut_2.jpg
https://www.x-gf.com/misc/PPro_transcode_tut_3.jpg
https://www.x-gf.com/misc/PPro_transcode_tut_4.jpg
https://www.x-gf.com/misc/PPro_transcode_tut_5.jpg

x-gf.com

[Zvi Twersky]

I downloaded them. Thank you so much. I work nights and now it’s 1:27p.m. here and I MUST go to sleep. I’ll chech them later.

thanks again!

[Darren Edwards]

You’re welcome.

I’ll leave them online for 24hrs or so incase they’re of use to
anyone else. People can always ask either of us personally for
them, at a later time, I supppose.

Darren.

x-gf.com

[Zvi Twersky]

Thanks again!

I wanted to know if I can use these on my site.
I made a demo page of what it would look like but won’t post the URL here publicly, so I sent you the URL in a private message in MySpace.

Thank you!