[Eric Strand]

Larry Jordan has a solid tutorial on settings for making DVDs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBWWn5OMO-Y

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[Eric Strand]

You’re welcome. If you needed to figure out a different resolution, take your height/3 * 4. So in this case 1080/3 = 360 * 4 = 1440.

4/3 = 1.33
1440/1080 = 1.33

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[Eric Strand]

640×480 is standard definition video with an aspect ratio of 4×3. 1920×1080 has a 16×9 aspect ratio and is HD. Based on your question it sounds like you exported at 640×480, then upscaled back to 1080 when you compressed for YouTube. You took out a ton of resolution when you went to 640×480, which is why you lost image quality. If you want a 1080 video with a 4×3 aspect ratio you would have to put your sequence settings at 1440×1080.

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[Eric Strand]

This idea is a long shot since you said no other program will open it, but have you tried QuickTime 7 Pro, going to Show Movie Properties, deleting the track you don’t need, and doing File Save As?

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[Eric Strand]

Can you open the MXF clips in VLC and see if they show it there?

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[Tommy McMahon] “Which format makes for better video footage?”

PAL and NTSC don’t affect the quality of your footage, they are technical standards.

[Tommy McMahon] “What is the cut-off point? When will my video’s quality begin to suffer? When will it be detectable to the eye?”

Typically 1080 footage is encoded around 8-12 Mbps. YouTube’s own standards advise using 10 Mbps. If there is a lot of motion in your video, bump the bitrate up.

Unfortunately, I don’t know enough about Speedgrade yet to help you with that issue. I’ve been meaning to learn it myself!

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[Eric Strand]

Hi Tommy, NTSC and PAL are technical standards. Europe uses the PAL standard, North America uses the NTSC standard. One is not better than the other. I’m not loving the Best YouTube Export Settings With Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 you posted. The guy in that video has a standard def sequence that he is telling people to uprez to 720? Then he sets his level at 5.1, which auto adjusts his frame size to 1080, but he doesn’t say anything about that. Seems odd.

Have you tried using the YouTube 1080p25 preset that Adobe Media Encoder comes with?

Also, I’m hoping you watched the links I posted in my first reply, as they explain the basics of exporting and compression, something you’re going to have to learn.

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[Ht Davis] “Close but not quite right yet. “

The original poster asked why his 1GB file turned into a 40GB file. As you said, it sounds like he exported with Match Sequence Settings, thus Premiere exported his file at a higher bitrate than was recorded in camera, which therefore is the reason his file is 40GB.

[Ht Davis] “Why not start by blowing it up to an AVC-intra first in media encoder. This will put your color data back in, and blow up the frames”

The Nikon D5200 records a 4:2:0 color space, it’s impossible to put the color back in. AVC-intra will be easier to edit with, but that color information was thrown out at the source.

[Ht Davis] “Start with AVCintra100, and you can add a second job for simultaneous render, do an AVCIntra50 (this is a proxy format, should have about half the size of 100 and will edit nicely)”

I’m not sure why he would need an offline/online workflow unless he is editing on an old machine. Any relatively modern machine running Premiere CS6 should be able to edit Nikon DSLR footage or AVC Intra 100 without trouble. An offline/online workflow is going to take unnecessary time and storage space.

[Ht Davis] ” I suggest using Compressor, as the H264 algorithm does a better job of fitting to your bit rate settings while keeping quality.”

This may be true for Compressor 4 but Apple’s Compressor version 3 is widely recognized as having an awful implementation of the H.264 codec.

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[Eric Strand]

Hi Tommy, this all has to do with bitrate and codecs. Premiere exports your video at a higher bitrate than your DSLR recorded it at, hence the bigger file size.
Here are some video tutorials to help you get started:

How Codecs Work: https://vimeo.com/104554788
Understanding Exports: https://vimeo.com/115534648

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Oh so it’s not a YouTube encoding problem. Still try uploading a test at 30 frames. What are your export settings?

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