[Sean Winn]

Thanks Leah,
Testing a burn with a simple file extension change from .mp4 to .mov

[Sean Winn]

Ann,
Thanks for the reply, but I’m not getting anywhere. I know about the quicktime option under format. As I stated, when choosing this, it produces huge files. I need a .mov file from Premiere that’s encoded as h.264, but Premiere doesn’t seem to offer this like Final Cut.

Or, if anyone can tell me how to export a clip from Premiere using something else other than h.264 that reduces the final file size, that would help.

We use ProPresenter presentation software and it handles the .mp4s out of Premiere fine. It’s when I went to author a simple DVD with idvd, that it wouldn’t encode the mp4s. That led me back to the question – why can’t Premiere export a reduced size .mov file. Again, I’m exporting at 1280×720.

Any other suggestions or instruction is appreciated,
Sean

[Sean Winn]

Ok, sweet, that explains it perfectly. So, even though I’m still on CS5, I’ll start using the ‘add to’ function.
Again, thank everyone for their time.
Sean

[Sean Winn]

Hi Kevin,
Thanks for the response. Well, that worked (composition – add to reder queue. Never used that before, so didn’t dawn on me. Not sure why the make movie dialogue has changed, but won’t matter as long as this works. Appreciate the time,
Sean

[Sean Winn]

Yes, did that on the preference reset (cmd option shift), but no change when saving out. You hit ‘make movie’ and a save to dialogue box appears. If I close that out, down in the render queue and go to output module, usually I’m able to click ‘lossless’ and choose my settings in the resulting dialogue. Now, it’s not active.

Normally, you choose make movie and the render queue pops up and you select your settings and the save. So, hmmm, not sure what’s gotten out of whack here. Appreciate any further help.

[Sean Winn]

Hi Cristian,
All I can tell you is that after I switched to the Lexar high speed compact flash cards, I never had another issue with the 7D. Vincent Laforet is where I learned about this stuff: https://blog.vincentlaforet.com/mygear/media/

I use Lexar 16gb 600x compact flash cards. Not sure they make them any more, but now you can get an even better card for about half the cost I paid for mine: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/841564-REG/Lexar_LCF16GCTBNA1000_16GB_CompactFlash_Memory_Card.html

Hope that helps,
Sean

[Sean Winn]

FIXED.
I Fixed this using Eric Strand’s suggestion in the post 3 slots down from this one.
Put clips in appropriately sized new sequence, then applied a motion aspect ration change to all of them.
If you read this, thanks Eric.
Sean

[Sean Winn]

Hi Brandon,
After all these problems, I bought two Lexar 600 cards on the recommendation of Vincent Laforet (check out his site & blog).

I can report to you that using the Lexar cards, the camera has never had the problem again. I assume it’s just the speed & quality of the cards. I won’t go back. Can’t risk it.
Sean

[Sean Winn]

Thanks again for everything Jerry..
Sean

[Sean Winn]

I set the compressor to ProRes LT in the sequence settings and everything in the timeline immediately rendered (or did not need rendering any longer) and the quality was clear.

I assume this all came down then to the fact that I had it set on DV/DVCpro NTSC?

Sean