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Want to re-verify how is the best way to export for a final master? (“Same as Source”)
Hi, I’ve been in Adobe Premiere CC now, for over a year, and I’m kind of paranoid about matching specs to create my high quality master.
Coming from FCP7, all we had to do was “Export Same as Source”, and we were done. However, when I’m editing Sony XDCAM EX 1080p30 (35Mb/s VBR), I find that when I go to export and click on “Match Sequence Settings”, Adobe Premiere wants to create a “MPEG Preview”, so I’ve always just opened QuickTime, CTRL+I to get the original image specs, and also check my time-line specs, to ensure they’re both identical, then manually dial in my output with the same specs, Quality 100%, XDCAM EX 1080p30 (35Mb/s VBR)… I save the preset and call it “Same as Source”, do you have any thoughts on this?
I’ve also heard that exporting an XDCAM EX 1080p30 (35Mb/s VBR) is a waist, and that for a final master, I should consider a 1080p H.264 file.
Any thoughts?
Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Digital Chop House
Salt Lake City, Utah
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I ask what the client wants and do that. Sometimes, they don’t know, so they get an h.264 wrapped in mp4 — basically the YouTube preset, although I might slow the bit rate if they know where they are playing it.
Unless we are willing to make a file for every possible deliverable* (a de facto flip factory), there’s not too much in our control.
* HTML 4, HTML 5, YouTube, vimeo, iPad, iPhone, Firefox, IE, Chrome — there seems to be a different secret sauce for every possibility. Currently, actually, YouTube provides the best flipfactorytype secret sauce.
Broadcast is a whole other beast. It can take faster bitrates, but then they need to be FTP’d without being flipped and even if you’re using some kind of upload software for an agency, for example, when the file hits the broadcaster, it will still get flipped to the internal secret sauce! Sometimes, I miss Beta SP.
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Hi Tom,
Camcorders add a ton of compression to fit HD video onto memory cards, often with 4:2:0 color and Long-GOP encoding. Not something I want to encode back to for archival, master quality.
On Mac, I’d just go with ProRes, and simply choose the correct frame size and frame rate to match original (i.e. 1920×1080, 29.97 Progressive). From this new “Master” file, you can later create any deliverable format.
On PC, something like Lagarith or UT codec is lossless, or Avid DNxHD is similar to ProRes quality.
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers
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