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

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July 17, 2022
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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

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RjL190365

Legend

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.

Ann Bens

Community Expert

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

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Maja5CA1Author

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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

Ann Bens

Community Expert

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.

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Maja5CA1Author

Known Participant

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

Ann Bens

Community Expert

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

Try Prores 4444.

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Steve Griffiths

Inspiring

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.

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Maja5CA1Author

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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

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