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Premeire Pro Export Settings
Hey guys! So I have a few quick questions about exporting with Premiere Pro CC. I typically am working with native AVCHD files during all of my edits and typically export to h.264 – HD 1080p 23.976 for all of my projects. I then change the target bitrate max and mins to 50 (which is the max), select “VBR 2 pass” instead of one, select “use maximum render quality” and select “render at maximum depth”. This was intended to help me get the best results possible. The destination for these files were the internet. If I was doing BluRay, I did the same thing, only under the h.264 BluRay option.
Here’s my question: I am going to start editing with DNxHD files now by transcoding my AVCHD files to DNxHD using Adobe Prelude. This is to help me edit smoother with my PC and to have more room with grading. My question is, should I still export the same way I always have, or should I start exporting with DNxHD now to match everything else? I just want to have the best quality and smoothest playback possible. I do realize that a lot of people can’t play DNxHD on their computers without the codecs installed, so that might not be the best option for clients who might want the videos on a drive for their computers. I just want to know what would be recommended. Also, I have noticed that sometimes my videos on YouTube, Vimeo and Facebook have an issue with the volume being just slightly off. Is this because I am making my files so big with selecting the highest bitrates and all, so much so that they can’t play it back smoothly? Maybe I should export as h.264 – Youtube HD 1080p or Vimeo HD 1080p for each of those sites, exporting one specifically for YouTube and one specifically for Vimeo. Or is that a 24p vs 23.976 issue?
Here is what I am looking for: The best export settings for the web with YouTube, Vimeo and Facebook, the best export settings for BluRay and the best export settings for tv, as I will be filming and editing two nationally televised shows on the Pursuit Channel starting in August. If I could find the best export settings for each of these scenarios coming off of DNxHD codecs, then I would be in business!
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The presets that are labeled for Vimeo, YouTube, and BluRay, etc…is there a reason why you would assume those are -not- optimized for the service they’re named after?
And your 50 Mbit data rate wouldn’t have much effect on YouTube or Vimeo, they transcode anything that is not in their spec…so your video is probably being transcoded by YouTube to a specification similar to the YouTube preset.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Tim, are you sure, that youtube doesn’t transcode videos which are “inside” specification boundaries?
I have uploaded arround 100 vids to YT, and after upload is done I always see processing bar.
My quick test done with one 30 sec source video, 2 different transcoding via PPro CS6:
– first upload: youtube HD 720p25 6 Mbps preset – youtube processing step: 40 sec
– second upload: custom HD 720p25 20 Mbps preset – youtube processing step: 42 secYT is providing 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p, so they downscaling anyway, and I really doubt that they do it during online playback, which means that they transcoding at least all res down of the original one. But if they converting few times, they’re very likely do it for original as well for compatibility purposes.
One thing more. When you try to play uploaded HD video just few seconds after upload is done, you can see, that (sometimes) are available only 240/360 and you have to wait some time (seconds, minutes, sometimes even hours) for HD resolutions to appear.
Then, jf they transcode all uploads, is definitely better to upload video with higher bitrate (for high quality HD video in h264 something 20-40 Mbps), because is better source for further YT conversion.And to make it simple, my point is like this: as YT conversion is quite good, I feel safer to provide high quality 20-40 Mbps uploads, because in the worst case YT will transcode to the same average quality provided with PPro youtube presets (720p25 = 5 Mbps, 1080p25 = 8 Mbps), but if they do transcoding for all, I win 🙂
by the way have a look here https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en
I see I’m outdated, haven’t seen this one yet:
“High quality uploads for creators with enterprise quality internet connections
1080p 50,000 kbps
720p 30,000 kbps”
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