How Do I export uncompressed format in Premier?

[Ivan Myles]

He is probably referring to uncompressed YUV, which is formatted as Y’CbCr with 4:2:2 chroma subsampling. By comparison, QuickTime None is formatted as uncompressed 4:4:4 RGB.

Open the Export panel and select the following parameters in the video tab:

Format: QuickTime
Video Codec: Uncompressed YUV
Width: 720
Height: 576
Frame Rate: As required
Aspect: As required
Depth: 24-bit (i.e 8-bit per channel)

There might not be an option for Fast Start depending on which version of Premiere Pro you are using.

[Diana David]

I tried on Premier CS3 and CS5 none of them have it (FAST START option). There is no point for me exporting if I don’t have all the options they require and FAST START is one of them 🙁

Is there any other software for windows that would do this?
I’m just going crazy over here, trying to solve this problem :S

[Ivan Myles]

You could use QuickTime Pro ($35), but I don’t think it is necessary. I understand the desire to conform to all the specs, but Fast Start is used for streaming; the encoder places header info at the start of the file so it can start playing before the download is complete. Uncompressed YUV is not an appropriate format for streaming.

Also: Given that the request came from the sound guy, be sure to export uncompressed audio.

[Diana David]

Thank for your reply, I indeed tried already quicktime pro but there is no use. I do have the FAST START option, but this time I don’t have the uncompressed YUV option.

It’s a sound studio and they use a server to work with, therefore they need the fast start option. But they also require the other options as well, making really difficult for me to export the file.

[Ivan Myles]

Is the sound studio using the audio stream from your file, or will they be synch’ing separate recordings? What is your workflow after the audio is mixed?

I suggest contacting the studio to discuss the situation. Otherwise try exporting two files: one from Premiere Pro as outlined above, and one from QuickTime Pro with the “None” codec and Fast Start. In both cases be sure the audio is uncompressed.

The uncompressed YUV file from Premiere Pro should be fine. However, if the sound studio absolutely demands Fast Start they can use the QT “None” format. Just take their mixed audio file and insert it back into the Premiere Pro project for final color correction and/or compression.

[Jeff Pulera]

I’m confused as to why a sound guy would be requesting UNCOMPRESSED video, which makes for very large files? I understand the audio should be best quality, uncompressed, but the video would just be for reference and could be a much lower quality (smaller file). How are you to deliver the files? If electronically, then the large files make even less sense.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Ivan Myles]

Agreed. Only reasons I could think of were ease of injestion, or if the studio is performing the final encoding. If they are only processing the audio then an all intra-frame QuickTime H.264 with uncompressed audio should be acceptable.

[Diana David]

I understand. But it seems they want to stay with the final quality video for them.

[Diana David]

So, I think the problem is solved… it seems the one exported from Quick Time pro was accepted but not the premier one though.

Thank you very much for you help!

[Ivan Myles]

Glad it worked out for you.