[Tommy Mcmahon]

Hi Jeff

Thanks for your advice, I was definitely over thinking the problem.

After watching a few tutorials I feel much more confident about my workflow.

Cheers

[Tommy Mcmahon]

Hi Eric

OK thank you that clears up NTSC vs. PAL for me thanks.

It’s great to know I can go as low as 10Mbps for rendering out to YouTube, my file sizes will be much more acceptable.

I watched both of those videos David Kong videos that you linked to in your earlier reply. They were very helpful. Thank you.

SpeedGrade is fantastic, I highly recommend it, after watching another tutorial I realise the best way to use it is at the start of one’s workflow. i.e. colour grade everything before you begin cutting, editing, adding audio and effects as it makes for a much simpler process. This cuts out the headache of trying to export a video from Premiere to SpeedGrade.

Thank you very much for your help.

Cheers

[Tommy Mcmahon]

Hi Eric

Sorry for my slow reply, Easter happened 🙂

I was aware NTSC was USA and PAL was Europe, and that NTSC was 29 FPS and PAL was 25. Other than that I am oblivious to their differences. I keep wondering which is better. On-line opinion is divided; I was hoping someone with experience like you could enlighten me please? Which format makes for better video footage?

Thank you for taking the time to watch that video. As I suspected he was not as authoritative as he first appeared to be.

I am recording in 1080p and I wish to preserve that. So feeding my video through the Adobe Creative Suite and out the other side should not result in anything being “destroyed” i.e. nothing should suffer deterioration or degradation. Clearly Exporting Media is the number one place to get it wrong!

After watching that video I realised he was working with 720p footage so I decided to tweak my export settings within Premiere Pro as my original footage is 1080p.

So I picked the following settings:

Source Range: Entire Sequence
Match Sequence Settings: “unchecked”
Format: H.264
Preset: HD 1080p 25
Export Video & Export Audio: “checked”
Frame Rate: 25
Aspect: HD Anamorphic 1080 (1.333)
[this was the only choice that made the source and output tab views match]
TV Standard: PAL
Profile: Main
Level: 4.2
Bitrate Encoding: VBR, Pass 2
Target Bitrate: 32
Max Bitrate: 40
Use Maximum Render Quality: “checked”

This results in a file that is 2814MB in size or 2.8GB, nearly three times the size of the original.

If I change the target bitrate to 16 then the size is 1.4GB
And if the bitrate is 8 then the size is 716MB
This all makes sense as the size halves each time.

What is the cut-off point? When will my video’s quality begin to suffer? When will it be detectable to the eye?

On a separate issue, I am trying to correct colouring of my video.

So I am using Adobe Speed Grade. However I cannot open an H.264 MP4 with Speed Grade as it’s not a format it recognises.

If I change my format to QuickTime then confusingly the highest Preset available is 1080i there is no 1080p.

And finally if I choose to send the file to Speed Grade rather than exporting it, Premiere Pro creates a file that is a whopping 238GB in size!!!

Thanks very much for your help, its greatly appreciated.

Cheers.

[Tommy Mcmahon]

Hi Eric Strand & Ht Davis

Thank you both for your invaluable input.

I was indeed ticking the box that said “Match Sequence Settings” and my format was “AVI” this resulted in a 40GB sized file.

CreativeCow isn’t allowing me to put hyper-links inside my posts yet, because I am a new member of the forum. So all I can do is give you the title of the video I just watched on YouTube, it was called

“Best YouTube Export Settings With Adobe Premiere Pro CS6”

I will still try and post the video’s URL just in case the restriction has been lifted:

https://www .youtube. com / watch? v=4FbTsk_3QD4 (remove spaces)

I followed the advice in the video. I didn’t tick “Match Sequence Settings” and the Format is now H.264. My preset is 1080p 25. I am a European (Hey someone has to be!) and my camera came pre-set to PAL. I don’t know if NTSC is better or not??? so I never bothered changing it. So anyway my file size has now dropped from a colossal 40GB to a more respectable 2.8GB. Still more than twice the size of the captured footage!

Gents if you find the time, please watch the YouTube video its just 6m36s in length. I would be extremely grateful for your opinions on it please. As I am new to Premiere Pro so I don’t know if the guy in the video is offering good or bad advice or whether his settings can be improved upon.

In particular I would like to know what you think of what he does at 3m 26s into the video, especially the adjustment he makes to the bitrate.

Thanks very much.

Cheers