Skip to main content
Known Participant
July 17, 2022
Question

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

  • July 17, 2022
  • 3 replies
  • 9093 views

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

This topic has been closed for replies.

3 replies

Legend
July 18, 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.

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 19, 2022
quote

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

 

Maja5CA1Author
Known Participant
July 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.


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'.

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 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.

Maja5CA1Author
Known Participant
July 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

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 17, 2022

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

Try Prores 4444.

Inspiring
July 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.

Maja5CA1Author
Known Participant
July 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