[Mark Ireland]

Yeah, all my exports have been set for progressive. Can I ask what would be your definition of “high quality h.264”? Would that be mostly governed by bitrate settings? Here are my settings I’m going to try for this output:

[Mark Ireland]

Thanks Greg.

It looks fine playing in Premiere. I am playing back through Quicktime and again, that looks fine on my own computer screen. I haven’t tried a different player and may not have the chance to test that out before this screens (on the big HD monitor) tomorrow. Also, the fact that I had this same problem when I output a DCP file for a movie theater, which is directly uploaded to their system and not playing off my computer, leads me to believe there is something problematic in the file output. That’s why I wondered if a smaller file, say h.264 might give me a better results playing from my computer, at least in terms of through-put.

[Mark Ireland]

I’m not 100% following. Are you talking about an issue with my computer’s own display? Because the file does play fine on my own screen, it’s just when I try to play the file from my computer that the problem is introduced on the projector. Also, today I had the same issue playing it from my laptop to a big HD screen (through HDMI). Also, I’ve exported directly to a DCP file which was uploaded at a movie theater and still the same problem. So, it seems to be in an export or playback issue…..

[Mark Ireland]

Yes, I did try it as a DCP file and there was the same problem. Somebody at the theater asked if I had tried outputting at 60fps instead of the native 30fps. I hadn’t heard this before.

[Mark Ireland]

Great! I’m feeling better about this. Here is an expanded view of the file names:

I was using waveform and vector scopes during grading and so the black and white levels should be good. I was careful about saturation etc. as well.

Unfortunately, my original footage was not shot in 24p (it’s 1080i), so I don’t know how that conversion—done by Premiere—affects how it plays.

So, if all this looks good, I still need to re-format the drive, for the theater to use it, correct? Hopefully I can do that from my Mac disk utility. Thanks so much!

[Mark Ireland]

Hi Bouke,

Here is a screenshot of what is inside the folder which Premiere created.

Note that when I viewed this through a PC on the Windows NT formatted disk, all of the assets had the blank rectangle icon beside them (with dog-ear corner). Whereas on my Mac, you see what looks like a VLC icon next to the separate video and audio assets.

Does this look correct?

[Mark Ireland]

This is all new info to me, so I appreciate it. If special software is needed to create a DCP, what is the point of Premiere providing this output option (they call “Wraptor DCP”)? I was able to play the file using a trail version of a DCP player. It played, however only in low-res. Thanks!