Andrew Spuur
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Ken,
Yeah, the bazillion settings in Adobe Media Encoder can be really frustrating as there’s no quick and easy guide to tell us which settings work well together. There’s a whole lot of trial and error involved…
Try using the preset for H.264 mpeg4 1980x1080px square pixels with a bit rate of 10-12mb, or 1280×720 square pixels with a bit rate of 7-9mb. Make sure you specify square pixels as HDV footage uses rectangular pixels (hence the 1440 instead of 1980). You can check your output on the left side of the Media Encoder window under the output tab.
If you have Quicktime loaded on your computer, you can also export as a Quicktime file using the same H.264 specs. If you’re on a Win7 PC and you’re using Quicktime, make sure you save the exported file to your desktop instead of to a folder on one of your hard drives. That’s a funky quirk to the current version of Quicktime and Win7.
Good luck!
Druu
Bite Me TV
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Marten,
My guess is that your PC needs more resources. How much memory do you have? I thought the 6gigs that I had was good enough until I ran into problems using Premiere Pro CS4 with HDV and HDSLR footage, spoke to an Adobe rep and was told my 6gigs wasn’t really enough. I’ve since doubled it to 12gigs and so far, so good.
Good luck!
Druu
Bite Me TV
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Thanks for the tip, Vince.
I tried exporting various flavors of H.264 .mp4’s, H.264 Blue Ray and Quicktime with a 30 second test video. I was having problems with Quicktime exports, but I finally got it working. It looks like on my Windows 7 machine I have to point the converted file to my desktop in order for Quicktime Pro to work. Pointing to a file location causes a “file missing” error.
After all that, it looks like I was pretty close with the H.264 .mp4 specs I have been using. If I bump up the bitrates, I get some image improvement. The Quicktime files were far bigger and didn’t look any better. So I’m in the ballpark and will keep tweaking a little as I work on each new show episode.
Cheers!
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For YouTube a .mp4 is all I need, but I upload all three file types to Blip. Blip will distribute videos to iTunes, but I either have to pay them a subscription fee to have them transcode .m4v files or transcode them myself. Plus, I’ve found that their .flv transcoding isn’t that swift. It looks like they use a lower-grade single-pass transcode, and I get much better results if I do my own encoding in Episode then upload my .flv file for use in their web player.
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Hi, Vince!
Yeah, I’m uploading to YouTube and Blip TV so in the end I need a .mp4, a .flv and a .m4v. When I was shooting in SD, I would export a .avi as a master, then transcode a .mov, and .m4v in Quicktime as well as a .flv in Episode for uploading. Now that I’m shooting in HD, I’m trying to nail down a new workflow to get my videos looking as clean as possible.
Thanks!
Andrew -
The video files from your 5D mk2 are H.264 files that Premiere prior to CS5 can’t edit natively. I have the same problem with footage from my 550D/T2i. The solution, other than upgrading to CS5, is to convert those files into a format that Premiere can play with. I’ve been using Cineform’s NeoScene to do that, and so far I’ve been very happy with it. It converts the original video files to Cineform .avi files that Premiere CS4 has no problem working with and costs about $130. There are some other conversion tools out there that do a similar job, bit I don’t know how well they work.