[Danny Winn]

Hey Rex,

I always export my HD as an MPEG2 with the preset of HDTV1080-30p. I shoot at 30fps so you’ll need to select the same preset that matches your frame rate.

Don’t worry about the extra compression, mine come out beautiful with this setting (sample link below), not only that but if you were to export a full HD file uncompressed it would be so large you probably couldn’t it play properly unless it was just 15 or 30 seconds.

Some people may have a Quicktime setting that they like but I personally can never find one I like.

Go to the following link and browse through some of my HD videos, all of the HD vids were used with the above settings.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/dannywinnvideo

Hope this helps;)

Danny Winn

[Danny Winn]

What file type are you trying to encode?
Is this in HD?
How long is the video?

If I know this I might be able to help.

[Danny Winn]

I’m a little confused,
Scaling up and down is not zooming in and out, so while your video is sized down use the “Zoom” effect in the Video Effects Tab not the scale effect.

You could also export the the intended smaller video to the size you want it before hand and then drop it into the other full size one, that way the smaller one is naturally small because you exported it that way, does that make sense?

Danny.

[Danny Winn]

Hey John,

I’m wondering if I’m reading your 1st post correct. You say you shot the video with one camera and then captured from another older one, is that correct? If so I think the strobing problem is because the older camera does not use the same “drop down” technology as the more modern cameras. It’s a little wierd that the frame rate reads as 29.97 even though you selected the capture DV in 24.

I think if all this is true then this is your main problem, not the export settings entirely. Does it have the strobing effect when you play it in the timeline?

[Danny Winn]

Hey Fraser,

I’m a little confused, you say the files are mp4’s? Were they captured by Premiere Pro? I thought PPro only captured MPEG2’s for HD.

I always export my HD projects as MPEG2 with the HDTV1080 Progressive (Match your frame rate) preset. I love the results. A 7 minute HD .AVI film would be an ungodly huge file size, I would never even try it. Try the MPEG2 with either the Full HD (As above) or regular HD preset(HD 720)and see if that make any difference.

Hope this helps.

[Danny Winn]

Hey Matt,

I don’t use MPEG4 at all but I do know that sometimes when I select a preset setting that reads say “1080 25p”, I still have to change the setting from “Upper first” to Progressive.

You might see if you can do that even though the 25p preset should already be defaulted to Progressive.

Hope this helps.

[Danny Winn]

Hey John,

I personally would always export as AVI in Standard Definition if you want the highest quality, I know everyone in the industry loves Quicktime but I’ve never liked it. MPEG2 if using HD.

Make sure that when you are setting your export settings that you select the “progressive” setting not the interlaced since you shot it at 24p. (I think you’ll have that option).

Also of course make sure you select the AVI Widescreen option as well. With these settings you should not be getting black bars.

Some older SD cameras have a letter box setting that records the black bars right into your footage, it may look like 16:9 in the view finder but it’s actually a 4:3 with the widescreen image centered in that. You would see this in your editing window though if this were the case. So if the footage you are editing has no black bars it’s just a matter of selecting the correct export settings.

Hope this helps.

Danny Winn
youtube.com/DannyWinnVideo

[Danny Winn]

Hey Corey,

I shoot everything in 30p, I would use 24p if I were going for a movie look but 99% of my stuff is commercial oriented. I also export all of my HD stuff as an Mpeg2 with the HDTV1080-30p, your will be HDTV1080-24p. With that setting you will end up with a Full HD video at 1920×1080.

I love the look of this setting and the file size is relativly small (30 second spot is about 68mb’s)

Here’s some samples of my work at these settings and with the Canon XH A1s. If you want to see them with a bigger frame to see the HD just go to my site instead of watching these little screens. Be sure to click on the little HD option.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLXVdVfvTYU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raoDO8scEF0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMXsZEwBV10

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[Danny Winn]

Hey Corey,

I use the XH A1s and Premiere Pro exclusivly. Under the Sequence Preset settings I would select HDV then HDV1080p24. I Personally never use the interlaced settings, I like the look of a progressive better especially for cutting still images. If you must use the Interlaced setting then HDV 1080i25 would be your setting.

Interlaced vs Progressive is a personal opinion, I would try a little of both and see which one works for you.

Hope this helps.
Danny Winn
https://www.youtube.com/DannyWinnVideo

[Danny Winn]

Hey Laurent.

Try this,

Open After Effects and then go to file and select “Import Premiere Pro Project”, select your PP project.
It will take a few minutes to load.
Then, this is important, find the one file within all the files you can see called “Sequence 1” and double click that one file. DO NOT DRAG ALL THE FILES INTO THE NEW COMP BIN.
Once all the files load into the timeline you can add your effects.
Once finished you can ouput from After Effects.

If this doesn’t work I’m not sure what’s going on with the footage.

Hope this helps.