Premiere Pro CS4 – AME – exporting quality issues

[David Dobson]

They fixed that in 4.0.2? I didn’t notice since I stopped exporting QT in ’08 (I am one of the few who upgraded to CS4 when it first came out.)

[Eddie Lotter]

[David Dobson] “They fixed that in 4.0.2?”

I believe so, but to be honest I have not tested it. I don’t use QuickTime.

Cheers
Eddie

[Nathan Gross]

Hey Vince,

Thanks for the input.

The native resolution of the plasma is 1280×768 and they rotate them vertically. It’s not a true 16×9 ratio but that’s the specs the display company gave us and that’s the resolution we’re working with. So there are no black bars.

One of the problems working with AP CS4 seems to be the fact that we are trying to work in a vertical format. So the standard presets will not work with out some tweaking… and that’s where things seem to get messy.

Yes, H.264 works great. We have been using this for awhile now… but just recently tried exporting from AP CS4 – rather than QuickTime Pro.

Thanks!

[Eddie Lotter]

[Nathan Gross] “rather than QuickTime Pro.”

QT Pro gives you a lot more control than does PPro when exporting to QT format. I don’t use the QT format myself, but with more control available in QT Pro it seems a better solution.

Cheers
Eddie

[Nathan Gross]

Perfect! I’ll give this a shot.

Adobe and Apple are knee deep in some competition huh? Flash/Quicktime, Lightroom/Aperture, Photoshop Elements/iPhoto…

[Nathan Gross]

I like the (i think it’s referred to as) the linear editor aspect of AP though – which you don’t have in QT. But don’t mind doing the compression in QT Pro. Is there a way to export a “lossless” video from AP – similar to AE?

[Nathan Gross]

Ok so it seems that my issue now (I mentioned this earlier as well) is that I am working in a vertical format (1280×768) rather than a more standard horizontal format.

AP seems perfectly content with working in the vertical format but AME does not seem to allow me to export anything (except using the QT output) in a vertical format.

Do I just need to rotate all my videos (not difficult) or am I missing something?

Thanks!

[David Dobson]

Certain presets reject custom frame sizes.
Make sure you have square pixels and no fields (progressive) in the output settings (and in the sequence settings.)
I have output all kinds of weird screens this way.

[Eddie Lotter]

Nathan, I’m not sure what you mean by “vertical format”, but David makes important points.

Cheers
Eddie

[Eddie Lotter]

[Nathan Gross] “which you don’t have in QT”

Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply doing your editing in QT, just the final export.

[Nathan Gross] ” Is there a way to export a “lossless” video from AP”

Yes. I can’t remember if you’re on Mac or PC, but on a PC you choose the “Microsoft AVI” preset and then choose a lossless codec or “none” for uncompressed.

Naturally a lot of disk space is required, but for quality exports that’s par for the course. 😉

Cheers
Eddie