[Nathan Gross]

I like the (i think it’s referred to as) the linear editor aspect of AP though – which you don’t have in QT. But don’t mind doing the compression in QT Pro. Is there a way to export a “lossless” video from AP – similar to AE?

[Nathan Gross]

Perfect! I’ll give this a shot.

Adobe and Apple are knee deep in some competition huh? Flash/Quicktime, Lightroom/Aperture, Photoshop Elements/iPhoto…

[Nathan Gross]

Hey Vince,

Thanks for the input.

The native resolution of the plasma is 1280×768 and they rotate them vertically. It’s not a true 16×9 ratio but that’s the specs the display company gave us and that’s the resolution we’re working with. So there are no black bars.

One of the problems working with AP CS4 seems to be the fact that we are trying to work in a vertical format. So the standard presets will not work with out some tweaking… and that’s where things seem to get messy.

Yes, H.264 works great. We have been using this for awhile now… but just recently tried exporting from AP CS4 – rather than QuickTime Pro.

Thanks!

[Nathan Gross]

The videos will be ran off of a laptop running quicktime fed to a plasma screen—I believe 768×1280 native resolution (when rotated)

[Nathan Gross]

I cannot seem to get mpeg2 basic settings to do 768×1280. Am I missing something?

[Nathan Gross]

I would prefer a QuickTime file but I will try your mpeg2 settings. Thanks!

[Nathan Gross]

We are creating these videos for use at multiple trade show exhibits. They will be displayed on rotated plasma screens. I realize the resolution is not a standard HD resolution but those were the specs given to us by the display company.

These videos are showcasing medical devices. Each medical device has a 25-30 second animation that was created in AE. We basically set up a sort of template animation and swap out text and images for each device. We export each device animation from AE with the default settings (Lossless QuickTime). This creates a pretty large file (500MB – 1 GB). We keep each device animation (we call these modules) as separate files until we combine certain ones for a specific trade show. Each show has a different line up of devices.

Our workflow in the past (and seems to work ok) has been just to use QuickTime Pro to combine the video modules (usually between 5-10 modules) and export to a .mov with the following settings:

Compression: H.264
Quality: Best
Frame Reordering: yes
Encoding: multi-pass
Dimensions: 768×1280 (Current)

This exports a hi-quality video with a small file size. Great.

I thought we could speed up the process by using Premiere Pro. Unfortunatley I have yet to figure out how to export a .mov anywhere near the quality of exporting from QuickTime Pro.

Here are screen shots of the settings:

https://downloads.rocketsciencedesign.net/AP_1.png
https://downloads.rocketsciencedesign.net/AP_2.png
https://downloads.rocketsciencedesign.net/AP_3.png

Is there a way to just export an uncompressed video to compress it in another application?

Thanks!