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QuickTime; Great Looking Export?…Anyone
Hey Premiere Experts,
I’ve been exporting QuickTime files (or, at least trying to) out of Premiere Pro2.0 and have noticed a significant loss in quality between my exports and my “opponents”, who is using FinalCut on a mac. Now, asides from the obvious, is there anything in particular I should be doing to make my exports look better? (I’ve been noticing a lot of artifacting, and small writing looks very blurry and pixelated) -as oppose to the FinalCut export where the writing is a lot crisper and there is almost no artifacting in the image. Or, is this simply an issue with the codecs Premiere uses?
Can someone please provide me with an explanation and a possible solution i.e. using a third party software like ProCoder, or re-exporting using QuickTime Pro, etc.
Just to clarify, I think I’ve maxed out all the different combinations of options in the Export Movie Settings dialogue box, but the main thing is that I’m exporting as a QuickTime with the DV/DVCPro-NTSC compressor and the quality is set to 100%. Has anyone come across any good combinations that have worked for them?
Thanks everyone. Cheers!
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4 Replies
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Exporting to DV is your problem. If you want quality, export using the Animation codec (or if that’s too big, use Photo-Jpeg or PNG).
If you need to use DV, and you’re seeing artifacting when playing back in QT player, make sure the High Quality check box is enabled in the visual settings tab (located in Movie Properties). This makes a huge difference.
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I think the H.264 codec (or similar) is available
for PPro’s Media Encoder soon, now that PPro’s ‘back
on the Mac’ blablabla. I can easily achieve similar
H.264 quality results (with smaller file sizes) using
Media Encoder’s WMV codec, though, even HD.D.
myspace.com/xgfmedia
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[filmapprentice] “Can someone please provide me with an explanation and a possible solution”
The most likely solution is to open the .mov with QT player and turn on the “High Quality” option. It is found on the Properties dialog (CTRL+J). For the latest version of QT Player open the dialog, select the video track and then the Visual Settings tab. On the lower right you will see a check box called High Quality. After turning this on I believe you will see much better results.
Save the file and this option will remain set for this file.
Hope this helps.
Dave
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You are absolutely right! The high quality setting made a huge difference. Thanks for the great tip!
However, I do still notice a small difference in the quality of small writing compared to the one exported out of FinalCut. Do you think theres a setting out of Premiere that I’m overlooking? I never quite embraced the recompress dialogue box and the data limit tab within it.
What do you think?
Thanks again. Cheers!
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