Premiere Pro CS4 – AME – exporting quality issues

[Vince Becquiot]

Any reason why you are using this particular resolution ?

What is the actual format, what 3D application were they exported from, and finally what are your project settings ?

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Rex Monga]

hey buddy u want a quick time output or a mpg2

try once mpg2

go to ame choose mpeg2

vedio

quality 5

size as per u
progressive field
profile main
level main

VBR2
max bit rate upto full
target bit rate adjust according the file size in mb it will show uy in bottum and the min bit rate same as target

and render it

do let me know if it works

regards

rex monga

[Nathan Gross]

We are creating these videos for use at multiple trade show exhibits. They will be displayed on rotated plasma screens. I realize the resolution is not a standard HD resolution but those were the specs given to us by the display company.

These videos are showcasing medical devices. Each medical device has a 25-30 second animation that was created in AE. We basically set up a sort of template animation and swap out text and images for each device. We export each device animation from AE with the default settings (Lossless QuickTime). This creates a pretty large file (500MB – 1 GB). We keep each device animation (we call these modules) as separate files until we combine certain ones for a specific trade show. Each show has a different line up of devices.

Our workflow in the past (and seems to work ok) has been just to use QuickTime Pro to combine the video modules (usually between 5-10 modules) and export to a .mov with the following settings:

Compression: H.264
Quality: Best
Frame Reordering: yes
Encoding: multi-pass
Dimensions: 768×1280 (Current)

This exports a hi-quality video with a small file size. Great.

I thought we could speed up the process by using Premiere Pro. Unfortunatley I have yet to figure out how to export a .mov anywhere near the quality of exporting from QuickTime Pro.

Here are screen shots of the settings:

https://downloads.rocketsciencedesign.net/AP_1.png
https://downloads.rocketsciencedesign.net/AP_2.png
https://downloads.rocketsciencedesign.net/AP_3.png

Is there a way to just export an uncompressed video to compress it in another application?

Thanks!

[Nathan Gross]

I would prefer a QuickTime file but I will try your mpeg2 settings. Thanks!

[Nathan Gross]

I cannot seem to get mpeg2 basic settings to do 768×1280. Am I missing something?

[Vince Becquiot]

Nathan, where is you export going to be shown, how will it be played back ?

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Nathan Gross]

The videos will be ran off of a laptop running quicktime fed to a plasma screen—I believe 768×1280 native resolution (when rotated)

[Vince Becquiot]

Nathan,

You really need to keep that 16:9 ratio or you will be running a stretched video (or see bars). 1280×720 could be native to the plasma, but it could be higher if it’s a newer model.

Try to match to Plasma’s native resolution and make sure the laptop supports that resolution as well.

As far as output formats go, H.264 will probably be the best format you can pick for playback. I usually pick 10 Mb/s VBR for HD. For that, you will need a fairly new machine for smooth playback.

Anyway to post a screenshot ?

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[David Dobson]

AME doesn’t like quicktime. Especially H.264 as quicktime. All the changes to the template are ignored – or at least this has been my experience. However – you can export just fine as h.264. This creates .mp4 fils which quicktime can play back (if the bandwidthe is low enough or the computer is fast enough – but that’s normal with quicktime too.)

It really does seem that Adobe is trying to kill quicktime. I’ve given up on it almost entirely now and use h.264 for almost everything – which is fine because it is a mpeg4 and creates some very nice images at quite reasonable data rates.

[Eddie Lotter]

[David Dobson] “AME doesn’t like quicktime.”

Who does? 😛

Actually, the changes are not ignored, they are not saved in the queue. You should revisit the settings in the AME interface and set them the way you want and then start the queue.
Alternatively you can apply the 4.0.2 update to AME.

Cheers
Eddie