Trying to render .avi uncompressed, cannot change video settings to 1080p

Report · Jul 17, 2022

Hi there,

I'm working in Premiere pro 2019 and I'm trying to export my 1080p video using .avi uncomopressed. All fine until I go to Basic Video Settings in the Export Settings window and find I cannot adjust the width to 1920. I get an error message which says 'frame dimension not supported please check that both width/height values are within limits'. I'm sure this is controlled by some setting somewhere, but I've no idea where to find it and can't find anything on line to that discusses this. I've looked at the sequence settings and everything is fine in there. If you could please advise, that would be great, otherwise I'll have to output as 17,000 .tiff files, which will be a royal pain to wrangle.

Thanks so much and best wishes,

Maja

Report · Jul 17, 2022

On a Mac version of Premiere at the moment which cannot export AVI, so can't test why this won't work for you.

I can't even remember if AVI supports 1920x1080, or it's color bit depth (probably limited to 8bits).

But why do you want to export AVI?

Very old format (1990's) and hardly supported or used anywhere these days.

If at all possible use something other than AVI. Like ProresHQ, AVC-Intra, DNx etc.

If you must use AVI, you could try turning off 'Use Maximum Render Quality' at the bottom of the export panel ... and maybe AVI's must have an audio channel (??) - try exporting with audio (even if you don't have any). Sorry can't help more.

Report · Jul 17, 2022

Hi,

Thanks for your response.

I’m exporting .avi so I can output a full res movie that I’ve imported from After Effects to Premiere. Unfortunately, there are some incredibly annoying sound artefacts in AE that I can’t locate the source of (even though all sound is turned off in AE), so the plan is to export the full res movie without sound in Premiere and then add the sound design to that full res movie and output again as .h264. I’m working in Windows and unfortunately, the only full res uncompressed codec on offer seems to .avi. Either that or output 17,000 tiff files. If you have any other suggestions, that would be great. I think I’ve tried the suggestions you offered below re turning on/off sound and turning off maximum render quality.

Thanks so much and best wishes,

Maja

Report · Jul 17, 2022

In order to change the height and width, you need to unlock the Frame Aspect Ratio.

AVI uncompressed are extreme huge files, and you need a very powerful machine to even play the file.

Report · Jul 17, 2022

Hi there,

I have unlocked the frame ratio and this does not help. Please see the above answer for why I'm trying to output a full res .avi. If you have other suggestions for exporting at full res from Premiere, I'd be very happy to hear them.

Thanks so much and best wishes,

Maja

Report · Jul 17, 2022

I cannot check 2019 but in 2022 I was abel to set it to 1080p and export.

Try Prores 4444.

Report · Jul 17, 2022

Hi Ann,

I'm not at work today, but I don't think ProRes 4444 is an option for Windows? Yes, I saw a Youtube video from 2017 and he could also export a .avi at 1080p. I think there is a setting somewhere that has been turned off that is disabling this option. If someone could please advise where this might be, that would be great.

Thanks so much,

Maja

Report · Jul 17, 2022

I am sorry to tell you this, but the AVI (Uncompressed) preset is permanently locked to SD (720x486) resolution. It cannot be changed at all.

You will have to select "AVI" and not "AVI (Uncompressed)", and then set the compression to "None", in order to export AVI's larger than 486p resolution.

Report · Jul 18, 2022

Thank you so much, this is exactly what I was looking for for. I have been able to set up a preset and will render out tonight.

Brilliant stuff!

Maja

Report · Jul 19, 2022

I am sorry to tell you this, but the AVI (Uncompressed) preset is permanently locked to SD (720x486) resolution. It cannot be changed at all.

By @RjL190365

This is not correct. Screenshot AME 2022

Report · Jul 21, 2022

Hi Ann and Rjl,

Yes Ann, you are correct. Originally I could adjust the width, but it would not let me go as high as 1920px before giving me the error message 'frame dimension not supported please check that both width/height values are within limits'. For some reason, it now lets me adjust the resolution to 1920 x 1080 for .avi uncompressed, but I have no idea why or what has changed. I have saved a preset so I can return to it if/when needed. The other problem as everyone predicted, is the output file is so large, it does not render completely before failing. So, I'm left with rendering out tiff files, which does work quite well, as you can import them as a sequence.

Another work around for this issue would be to turn off sound with some kind of global switch in After Effects, import to Premiere and then bring in the sound file to Premiere and output as .h264. This would get around having to render out a full res movie file at all. Correct me if I'm worng, but I don't think there is such a thing as a global sound control switch for After Effects, rather than just turning sound off on individual layers? If there is, it would solve my problem.

Thank you all for your help thus far,

Maja

Report · Jul 25, 2022

So no one knows how to access the option for 1920 x 1080 output for AVI uncompressed? It's working for me know, but I don't know what activated it. I guess I gues I'll have to accept Rjl190365 answer as correct? It isn't technically, but offers a workaround solution...

Report · Jul 26, 2022

I showed you in the screenshot how to access!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Report · Jul 26, 2022

No, you did not. I know exactly where to find these settings, the question I was asking was why my option to adjust the width to 1920px was giving me the error message and telling me I could not output at that width. The maximum it would let me go to was 1620px, from memory. As explained in further correspondence, the settings have since changed for some reason and I am now magically able to output at 1920 x 1080p. No one seems to know why I was getting that error message or where the setting is that allows you to select 1920 x 1080p width. So, the question has still not been answered. And I don't appreciate being shouted at. Thank you.

Report · Jul 26, 2022

To clarify: No one seems to know where the setting is that allows you to select 1920 x 1080p width in the render settings if it is giving you the error message: 'frame dimension not supported please check that both width/height values are within limits'.

Report · Jul 27, 2022

If you try to set parameters without unlocking first then yes you get error stange messages.

Btw I do not shout, just showing you how.

Report · Jul 26, 2022

Another work around for this issue would be to turn off sound with some kind of global switch in After Effects, import to Premiere and then bring in the sound file to Premiere and output as .h264.

By @Maja5CA1

I cannot explain why you got the error. I have the 1920 option without issue.

But to use the AE project in PR, just import to PR. Drag to new icon, so you now have a compatible sequence. Then unlink the video/audio and delete the audio. Or leave it and just mute. Then add the audio.

Does that work for you?

Stan

Report · Jul 27, 2022

Thank you Stan, I already tried exactly this and it worked, so it's a good work around if you can't render an avi at 1920 x 1080 for whatever weird reason!

Best wishes,

Maja

Report · Jul 27, 2022

Alternatively, if you find the render settings for AVI (Uncompressed) won't allow you to select 1920 x1080, you can try RjL's suggestion above and select "AVI" and not "AVI (Uncompressed)", and then set the compression to "None", which will allow 1080p resolution.

Report · Jul 27, 2022

Have another look at my screenshot 1080p for avi uncompressed.

Report · Jul 30, 2022

Sorry for the misinformation above in my post. I had based this on an old version of Media Encoder. I had not re-checked or used the AVI (Uncompressed) preset since that time, until now. That is when I re-checked, and square-pixel 720x480p25 is the default setting for this preset. In the newest versions of Media Encoder, the AVI (Uncompressed) preset is customizable; however, 1920x1080 is the maximum resolution that is supported in this preset.

So Ann is correct.