• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Export/conversion success!

  Posted by Paddy Uglow on April 20, 2011 at 11:18 am

  I thought I’d share this ‘cos I’ve been battling with it so long:
  I’m still using Premiere Pro CS3 (CS4 was a bit of a disaster on our Mac Pro 10.5, with problems like not exporting my edits…!) and it’s annoying not being able to edit whilst it’s exporting via Adobe Media Encoder.
  We create a full size archive master, and an mp4 version for our site DShed.net. The first is fairly quick, but the second, done with AME, takes quite a while.
  I used to use QT Pro to batch-create compressed versions from the archive masters (I had some rather useful scripts too, like one that adds idents onto a folder full of movies and exports them), but the mp4 export messed up the colours somewhat, particularly our red title text!
  And we needed mp4s, not movs.
  Now, at last, I’ve found the free x264Encoder plugin for QTPro from https://www003.upp.so-net.ne.jp/mycometg3/
  So that gets me a mov h.264 with the reds intact.
  And I then found that my ffmpegx install made it fairly easy to access the full command-line ffmpeg (see https://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20061220082125312 to find out how)
  so I could use this command to re-wrap the mov into an mp4 without any degradation:
  ffmpeg -i source.mov -vcodec copy -acodec copy output.mp4

  Well, I hope that’s useful to someone. This page got me on the right track originally:
  https://byteful.com/blog/2010/07/how-to-fix-the-h264-gamma-brightness-bug-in-quicktime/

  Thanks to all the programmers and posters who put the information up there.

  – Paddy

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