Premiere Pro CS5 – Exporting (Extremely) High Bitrate HD Video

[Simon Matthews]

Hey, thanks for that info about Dynamic Links! So when I finish working on an After Effects project, instead of rendering it out I can just create a link to Premiere and drag the composition in as though it were just another clip. That’s cool, I will definitely use that!

Ahhhhh! You may have stumbled upon a problem that I had no idea existed! You mentioned something about the client’s footage being darker than expected. Well, I haven’t had it confirmed yet, but when I first viewed the original footage that was sent to me to work on, my first thought was that it was a little dark. Is this what you mean? And if so, how do I rectify this issue (in After Effects first and then also in Premiere)?

PS. I made a mistake when I said the client used H.264. He actually used Apple Prores I believe.

Thanks.

[Ivan Myles]

If the source footage from the client is too dark, use the Levels effect in AE or the Fast Color Corrector in Premiere Pro. If the final delivered video that the client creates is darker than your DNxHD output file, render another copy of your file using a different codec.

[Simon Matthews]

Hi, it turns out that his footage was meant to be as dark as it was, and to my surprise he is saying that the edited file I sent him in Quicktime Animation is too light. The problem is, on my computer, the brightness of the original footage and the edited footage look identical when viewed in Media Player Classic or on the Premiere timeline, and even odder, the original footage actually looks lighter than the edited footage when viewed in VLC player, so the exact opposite of what he is seeing!

This led to a lot of screen captures being sent back and fore between us yesterday, with him proving how much lighter the edited clip was in comparison to the original and me proving back that it didn’t look that way on my computer! I don’t think he was believing me to be honest because he said that he thinks I had adjusted the gamma on the entire clip, which I had not – the beginning of both original and edited clips should have looked identical, as there was nothing added to the beginning whatsoever.

Anyway haha! The good news is, I sent him a version in DNxHD (which I exported from Premiere) and it looks ok and he is happy with it. He says that this is the codec he wishes to use for the rest of the project. Phew! Wish I’d sent him this file now instead of going for the Quicktime Animation first. All’s well that ends well, as they say!

Many thanks for all your help,

Simon.

[Susan Mann]

Hi and thank you in advance for helping me out

Edited an 18 minute hdv video with audio in CS5 – exported to MEDIA ENCODER. asked encoder to make me a mp4 – used the following

codecs: h.264, hdtv 1080, 48 kps,

output: Frame width 1920 X
Frame height: 1080,
29.97 FPS. (it’s de-interlaced, aac,
160 kpbs, 48 khz, tereo, lvbr, 1 pass, target 32.00, max 40. mbps

checked off boxes asking it to export both video and audio

Finished product has a file ext. of M4p, and it’s on video.
Help – what did i do wrong…

i need to get this to a client to upload it via my FTP program (or theirs).

[Simon Matthews]

Hi Susan,

Did you mean to say the finished product is ONLY video? If you are saying that the final video doesn’t have sound then I’m not sure why. Going by your description it should have both video and audio. The only thing I can think of is, did you render the entire timeline first? Or maybe check your media player or speakers?

Simon