Premiere Pro Render Settings

Hi, I do some audio editing / music production in another program. I recently switched to windows 10 and notice my usual h.264 videos lag upon playback in that program.

Below is the recommended encoding or conversion settings for files to be read in that program, and I'm unsure of how to set this either in Premiere or Media Encoder. Some of the things I'm unaware of or how to set in Premiere are: B Frames, Reference Frames, and weighted P-Frames, weighted B-Frames and pyramidal B-Frames, and IDR (key frame interval).

If anyone could give me some insight into this, that'd be awesome.

Thanks,

Ben

• H.264
  
  H.264 uses similarities between different frames to reduce the file size. However, it can also be configured to encode every frame separately which is recommended for better performance and accurate editing. Make sure to use a key frame interval of 1 frame (so that each frame is encoded separately).

Recommended encoding settings for H.264

H.264 encoder presets, as offered in current versions of Apple Final Cut, Apple Compressor, Avid Media Composer or Grass Valley EDIUS Pro, usually result in video files suitable for Nuendo, Cubase and Dorico. However, since the number of video tools that allow for H.264 export is high, and the H.264 specification includes various encoding parameters, you should take care of the following settings when creating H.264 video files:

• The number of B-frames should not be higher than 3. Anything above will lead to an unreasonably high amount of memory allocation.
• The number of reference frames should not be higher than 2.
• To keep the playback performance up, it is very important to disable weighted P-Frames, weighted B-Frames and pyramidal B-Frames.
• Furthermore, if you want your video to smoothly follow when winding or using a jogwheel, make sure to use a key frame interval (IDR) of 1 frame (thus every frame is encoded separately).