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Anonymous
February 10, 2012
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What are the best export settings for a HD video in Premier Pro CS4?

  • February 10, 2012
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Hi!

   I've been having so much trouble with this issue and it's something that continually frustrates my boss. I have a HD video the settings for it are

FPS 23.98

1920 x 1080, then a few lines down it says 1408 x 792

16 bit,

2 channels

48000 Hz

   What should the settings be when I make a new sequence?

             When I look at it in the window in Premiere Pro I have to contantly 'shrink' the image to fit the window, is that something I should be doing or does it indicate the sequence settings are incorrect?

But more importantly what should the export settings be? I exported a 4 minute long video and the size was 1 GB, I know that's too big.

I need to export it without loosing any quality and export another one that meets the Youtube and Vimeo limits on size.

Vimeo is 500 MB per week, sometimes I upload 4 videos per week. I think Youtube you can only upload 500 MB at a time.

I need to get smaller sizes with loosing the least amount of quality possible AND the best export settings for quality, so I guess I have 3 separate questions-

What are the best sequence settings for HD video?

What are the best export settings for HD without loosing any quality?

What are the best export settings for the size to come out around 500 MB with loosing the least amount of quality possible?

Thank You!

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/713070

On the above thread I used the 5th anwer, and it's going to take about 7 hours to export a 4 minute video 😕😕

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WrapArizona
Participant
July 25, 2013

I have scoured the internet trying to find the best settings when considering quality and size. I used to use H.264 for quite a long time. Just yesterday though I switched to QuickTime believe it or not.

Here is the exporting guide I wrote with all the settings and screens shots of video comparisons after being uploaded to YouTube.

http://goo.gl/8GZq4i

Hope this helps!

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Anonymous
February 11, 2012

Hello!

  Thanks so much for the codec and wrapper info, was going to ask about that sooner than later. Here is the screen shot after I downloaded Media Info (even though I'm on a Macbook Pro).

   I have been reading a lot of the links, but also have to edit 4 videos before Monday morning, honestly, sad to say I still don't know what codec it is. The site it took me to was quicktime, after reading those links I got the impression codecs were something completely different.

Thanks Jim and John.

John T Smith
Community Expert
John T SmithCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 25, 2013

>sad to say I still don't know what codec it is

What is a CODEC... a Primer http://forums.adobe.com/thread/546811

What CODEC is INSIDE that file? http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037

John T Smith
Community Expert
John T SmithCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 10, 2012

First, what codec?

Read Bill Hunt on a file type as WRAPPER http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037

What is a CODEC... a Primer http://forums.adobe.com/thread/546811

What CODEC is INSIDE that file? http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037

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Report back with the codec details of your file, use the programs below... a screen shot works well to SHOW people what you are doing

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For PC http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ or http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en

For Mac http://mediainfo.massanti.com/

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