exporting

[Mike Velte]

[Melissa] “Every time I export it the video plays back choppey..”

I am reading between the tea leaves…you exported your 5 minute movie at uncompressed.avi?? It is just over 4 GB in size. Uncompressed wont play smooth on most PCs..net a Raid array to read that much data per second.

[Melissa] “also for the web… any general suggestions?”

Whole books are written on this subject, but the best reference for newbies is our own Aharon Rabinowitzs’ “Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web” DVD
available here on the Cow. It is about 4 hours and well worth every $ and minute.

[Matjusm]

I’m having some problems as well exporting from Premiere.
I’ve been a Sony Vegas user for a while and am now doing my first project on Premiere but I’m having some serious trouble exporting.
First of all, it won’t let me keep my original aspect ratio. All of my footage is in 16:9 and inside Premiere, everything looks fine. However when I try to export, it switches it to 4:3 for some absurd reason.
And secondly, I can’t export to Divx properly. I really need to and I don’t want to go through another conversion process by first exporting to something else out of Premiere. The video comes out extremely artifact filled, even though when using the same Divx export settings in Sony Vegas produced excellent results. What am I doing wrong or is Premiere simply this unflexible?

[Jon Barrie]

it won’t let me keep my original aspect ratio

Anamporphic footage is natively 4:3 so you need to set the export aspect ratio properly. What format are you exporting to?

I can’t export to Divx properly.

You may have found the best settings with Vegas, but you’ll have to do the R&D to make DivX come out the way you want with Premiere.

– Jon

[Matjusm]

Anamporphic footage is natively 4:3 so you need to set the export aspect ratio properly. What format are you exporting to?
What anamorphic? My footage is 16:9.

As for Divx, why don’t the same settings I used in Vegas work also in Premiere? And I still don’t get why Adobe messes up my aspect ratio.

Oh, how I hate problems related to formats and aspect ratios. Why can’t they just all get along?

[Jon Barrie]

What format is you footage, DV, HDV, Full HD…?
What is the frame size i guess is whats really important here…
Anamorphic means the image is actually 4:3 and stretches out to 16:9. So a circle would be shot and look tall and oval – when stretched out to wide-screen it will look like a circle again.
The pixel size is what is dictating the aspect ratio on export. They need to match properly.
If you are going out to DivX, make sure you set the pixel shape to a native 16:9 square pixel aspect ratio. Like 1024×576 or 720×405 at sq. aspect.
I don’t make DivX clips so I don’t know the best settings to go with…
– Jon

[Matjusm]

I’ve given up exporting Divx from Premiere since no matter what I do, the video looks extremely artifacty and pixellated to the point that it actually hinders comprehension of what is going on. Xvid would have worked just as fine but every time I tried rendering to that, Premiere just crashed and not once but on multiple occasions. Then I tried MPEG4 and that also produced quite a bit of artifacting and ghostly trails behind moving objects. Then I finally tried exporting to .avi without any codec and that worked (then I converted to Divx with Sony Vegas). There is no way on earth this can be considered a normal workflow but it seems that Premiere’s exporting options just plain suck.
The reason I’m using these formats is that I need something that’ll play back on a DVD player.

[Mike Velte]

[matjusm] “The reason I’m using these formats is that I need something that’ll play back on a DVD player.”

Premiere has never been able to export Divx well.
If your footage from DV tape was shot in the Widescreen mode, open it in a Widescreen project and then export as Mpeg 2 DVD Widescreen. Most DVD players will interpret the footage as widescreen automatically, some will require making a manual setting using the remote.