Premiere Pro CS5 unable to export progressive scan

[Vince Becquiot]

Alex,

There really never was a progressive DVCAM format. Cameras are basically cheating their way into it by duplicating fields.

I wouldn’t bother exporting to DV anyway since it is very likely that you are re-compressing. If you are going to After Effects, export to AVI uncompressed or Quicktime Animation and keep the same quality throughout your workflow.

Even a full quality H.264 will give you better results.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Ivan Gaev]

Ok. But the problem is still there: i cannot cusmize my output.
Witch is huge discomfort in my situation, as i working on feature film and half of materials already downconverted in QT DV PAL 24p.
I upgraded from CS3 to CS5 and, it seems, i lost the posibility to render same format. Is it really that stupid as it seems?

Is there really no way to adjust presets and make my own cumtom output im Premiere Pro CS5???

[Vince Becquiot]

Ivan,

You can customize almost everything but DV, I can’t remember ever seeing a progressive DV export unless it was part of a plugin.

Unless all you have are straight cuts in your timeline with not effects / titles whatsoever, DV is not the right choice.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Ivan Gaev]

So you don’t really have an answer how to customize QT export on CS5?

I mean I have Premiere CS3 on my laptop and I have all variety of codecs, frame rates and dimensions to use there. Why not on CS5??

[Vince Becquiot]

[Ivan Gaev] “So you don’t really have an answer how to customize QT export on CS5?”

As long as you pick the Quicktime format at the top and expand the video codec tab below (not the preset), you should be able to pick just about any flavor in Quicktime exports, including the most commonly used, Animation, Motion Jpeg (and as Todd from Adobe recommended recently, Quicktime PNG)

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Ivan Gaev]

Wierd, but this list contained only DV codecs. And it did not have any other codecs until I installed Avid Codecs LE. Is it normal?

[Vince Becquiot]

Are you seeing all the codecs?

This definitely is not normal.

Again, just to confirm that we are looking at the same thing:

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Ivan Gaev]

Exactly the same spot, but no additional codecs. They only appeared after I installed Avid Codecs package. And I still can’t get my favorite Apple – DV codec

[Larry Andersen]

The screen you posted is NOT what I’m seeing. I do have the choice of codecs, but cannot change the output video size. As soon as choose QT, the window gets dumbed down, most of the controls gone.

So to make a simple H264 QT, I’m exporting a same as source quicktime (from a fully rendered sequence), which is somehow taking over an hour for a 3 minute video, which is completely insane. I’m then going to compressor to make what I really want. So I’m making client quicktimes at about the same speed as I did in ’98.

I’m doing this project to see if we might want to switch over from FCP and am HATING what I’ve found.

[Larry Andersen]

An apology…There is a scroll bar I missed in the QT settings. Unfortunately this has not sped anything up.I’m still looking at an hour and 20 minutes to render a an H264 QT at half resolution, 960×540, and 50% quality. I’m going to start a new thread. This can’t be right.