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Premiere Pro or AE
Hey everyone,
I’m having a bit of a conundrum. I’m not a super professional when it comes to shooting and editing video with different formats. I’m still learning all the different codecs and such. But there is one thing I seem to be working with more and more lately and I was wondering if anyone had any advice or experience with it.
I’ve started getting people’s Camtasia files. Usually a 640 x 480 file, 15.15 fps with square pixels.
Clients usually want me to a little bit of editing or mixing in of other types of footage. Once I get the editing done and a new title slate placed in. I go to export these 1 hour + videos.
I’m not really sure what to output it as? I’ve tried h.264 because its going to be going to the web eventually and I’ve tried DV Quicktime Mov’s out of the Media Encoder that comes with Adobe.
These renders are taking well over 4 hours. This doesn’t seem to make sense to me when the combined video footage and assets is less than 200MB’s.
I’m wondering if anyone could educate and provide some thoughtful suggestions for me and my learning experience.
Once again, thank you for taking time to read this. I appreciate it.
Mike
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1 Reply
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1) What version of Premiere do you have?
2) What are your system specs including processor, ram, and graphics card?
3) What is the pixel size and framerate of your sequence?
It’s not unheard of to get a 4:1 ratio for encoding DV material if you have an underpowered system, if your system is doing a ton of conforming to match a mix of footage. Regardless of the size of the assets on the disk, you have to understand that each frame is getting decoded, analyzed, and reencoded during the export process.
Concerning what you should encode out to, if it’s just to Youtube or a flash-based player I suggest the following for a 640×480 video:
-15fps or 15.15fps (if you’re mixing it with camera video at 29.97fps, it’s best to match it to the slower framerate, especially since the difference is so drastic. This might take some experimentation to get the best look as I don’t know exactly what you’re mixing in)
-MOV Container
-H.264 codec at 70% quality, limit datarate to 2000kbps or more
-AAC audio, 4800kHzShould get you decently acceptable results.
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