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tomatosoup75
tomatosoup75
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July 16, 2017
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Exporting a video of mostly still frames - What are the best settings?

  • July 16, 2017
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It's a 30 minute seminar video, and 90% of it will be static Powerpoint slides (1920x1080 PNG files). It is currently taking a very long time to export to h.264 1.5mbps, so can someone recommend an ideal setting?

For this export I have left keyframe distance unchecked but is it a good idea to change this?. Some of the slides are on screen for over a minute, so I don't understand why it's taking so long. And I'm sure it's just operator error!

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excited_Genie16B8
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July 17, 2017

"Best" export settings depend on the intended use of the export.  You have not yet offered that info.

In any event, "best" and "faster" exports are two different topics (often at odds with each other).  It sounds like you want the latter more than the former, and on that front, the typical way to get faster exports is faster hardware.

tomatosoup75
tomatosoup75Author
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July 17, 2017

I see what you're saying, and reading my post again it was a bit ambiguous. What I mean is that for a video that is almost just a slideshow of static images, it's taking just as long as if it were moving video. From my basic understanding of how compression works, I thought this should be a faster export. When it saves the first frame it doesn't need to process a new frame until 30 seconds later (for however long that image is on screen). So do I need to use a different codec, change export settings, or whether I'm just completely wrong?

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excited_Genie16B8
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July 19, 2017

Premiere Pro will "process" every single frame during export.  Still images won't necessarily go faster than video.

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