[Nrsingha Caitanya dasa]

Thanks again Jeff. I should probably try to take advantage of know-how since always seem to be offering the helpful hand.

So h.264 it is, but I am wondering what is better, the h.264 that is available directly from the “Format” menu in Premiere or the one that I can choose after I choose the Quicktime format and which is then available in the “Video Codec” menu? Or maybe theres no difference?

So say if file size and compression time weren’t an issue, what would you do to get the best quality output through h.264? Can you give some examples i.e key frames, bitrate, etc?

My present original footage is from a Sony Handycam HD AVCHD NTSC , etc (thats all the details i can remember right now about the camera). I also remember that the camera has two settings for recording, one in high quality (.MTS) and the other in lower (.mpg). I am working with the .mpg, if you have any specific recommended settings, I would be happy to check them out.

thanks again

[Nrsingha Caitanya dasa]

Thank you so much for the help. As much as I could understand, I tried to implement your advice and so far the result seems good. Really I am grateful.

At any rate if you have a chance to answer a few more of my questions that would be all the more helpful.
So what I have done so far is, when I get to the Premiere’s export window I leave the ‘Format’ on Quicktime and I put the ‘Preset’ on custom. As far as I can tell ‘custom’ is the only setting that will allow me adjust the settings down in the ‘video’ panel (i.e the width & height , Aspect, etc). And I believe that this is necessary to make the adjustments that you advised, is this correct? At any rate, then I tried putting the measurements at 854×480 and the Aspect ratio at 1.0 sq pxls, like you suggested. And I was pleased to see that it came out looking correct and played in the older quicktime w/o issue.

Anyway I should also mention that I put the ‘Codec’ to none because I am assuming/guessing this is the equivalent to Final Cuts export>Quicktime Movie (i.e uncompressed), as opposed to export>Quicktime conversion.

Now I guess just two questions remain. One is that this particular exported video could not play in VLC. VLC said ” VLC does not support the audio or video format “twos”. Unfortunately there is nothing you can do”. So seeing as how previous exports worked in VLC, although warped, I can understand that somewhere along the lines some of the settings I adjusted created this problem. What settings can I use that will allow me to export for VLC and keep the proper aspect ratio?

Also my last question is simple, how do I export an uncompressed video of my sequence with Adobes settings? As mentioned above, I think I am doing that by setting the ‘codec’ to ‘none’, but is this correct? And also is it possible that this is what is incompatible with VLC?

THank you so much for the help, and to everyone who has taken the time to go through my post.