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What is the best format to export videos from Adobe Premiere for storage?
Recently I changed my editing solutions from Final Cut to Adobe Premiere (a change I am enjoying greatly). I’m running on PC rather than Mac (a change I am getting used to to). I was curious, what is the best codec/format to export videos for storage?
For example, when using Final Cut, I exported all final projects as a Final Cut movie and found that these files were great for when I needed to quickly use something and make a quick conversion (via TV spot, compressed/specialized commercial, etc).
Is there a standard export for Adobe Premiere? One where you know the quality is just as good as what you put in?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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On a PC, I recommend downloading the Avid codecs, and exporting a DNxHD Quicktime file. Because Adobe has no codecs of it’s own.
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I’ll second Shane’s suggestion of DNxHD, but I’ll add that with Premiere Pro CC, you can output directly to DNxHD in an MXF wrapper.
If you don’t mind using the MXF container instead of MOV, it’s worth considering for two big reasons: the Avid QuickTime codecs are somewhat broken (prone to highlight errors at high bit depths, incorrect range interpretations/gamma shift across applications), and using 32-bit QuickTime from 64-bit Premiere is slower to encode and decode than using native MXF support.
As with MOVs from FCP, you can use MXF intermediates from Premiere as the masters for subsequent compression for delivery with Adobe Media Encoder.
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AVID does not like Premiers flavour of DnxHD though. Will not import natively.
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Hey all,
Thanks for the feedback.
But, unfortunately, my budget is a bit tight and has certain allocations going to other places (we’re a government entity so I have to be very detailed with budget and plan way in advanced). So, let’s say I couldn’t get the AVID codec, is there another format/codec you would recommend? -
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well shame on me for not looking further. thanks for the insight!
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