Exporting HD in Premier Pro CS3

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Exporting HD in Premier Pro CS3

Posted by Alireza Bahmanpour on November 22, 2008 at 8:51 pm

Hi,
I am quite new to HD, and I have a big big problem. I’ve spent more than a week editing a film captured from a HDV camera, but I dont know how to export it to get the best quality (I dont care about size, I just need the best possible quality). I use Premier Pro CS3 with Prospect HD 2k.

Also, I need the film to be widescreen, but it gives me normal. Here are settings for exporting:

File Type: Cineform HD Export (Encoder Controls: High HD quality)
Embedding Options: None
Compressor: Cineform HD export
Colour Depth: Millions+ of colours
Frame Size: 1280h , 720v (8:3)
Frame Rate: 25 fps
Pixel Aspect Ratio: DVCPRO HD (1.5)
Recompress: unticked
Bit Depth: Maximum
Fields: No Fields
Optimize Stills: ticked

I would very much appreciate your help, as I need to get this done as soon as possible.

Thanks in advance

Vince Becquiot replied 17 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
5 Replies

Vince Becquiot
November 22, 2008 at 10:13 pm

You mentioned highest quality. How will this be played back ? Computer? DVD?

The best quality could be through for example Quicktime animation 100%. Your export settings would be 1920×1080, square pixels. But that means a high end computer for playback (I do mean high end, RAID etc.).

Cineform is usually only used at edit time to get make editing easier on HD footage and it looks like you are using a DVCPro codec which has nothing to do with HDV. Are you actually editing with Cineform or did you simply pick it as export option?

The most important information we would need at this point is where this footage is going.

Vince Becquiot
Director | Editor

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
Alireza Bahmanpour
November 23, 2008 at 12:00 am

Thank you for your response

I actually want to put this film onto a DVD, so I want the best quality for that.

And also I just tried the Quicktime Animation; the quality is good, but it gives me a square screen, and not widescreen.

Thanks again
Vince Becquiot
November 23, 2008 at 12:03 am

What are your project settings ?

Do you want a DVD playable on a DVD player ?

If so, you don’t really have any options, you have to export as widescreen DVD.

Vince Becquiot
Director | Editor

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
Alireza Bahmanpour
November 23, 2008 at 12:26 am

I’m sorry, I did actually get widescreen with the settings you told me. But the playback is terrible on my laptop (it plays very slow). And yes, I do want a DVD which is playable on a DVD player.

By the way, my project is HDV 1080p

Thanks
Vince Becquiot
November 23, 2008 at 12:56 am

If you are keeping the same framerate as the original footage then I can only fault the laptop or the software on the laptop.

I would test on a DVD player and see if the result is better.

Vince Becquiot
Director | Editor

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

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