Export a video with the source quality

[Dstr0]

How can i export a video without compression? For example: i have a 30 seconds mp4 video (1920x1080, 30 fps, 7000 kbps) that i want to export at the source quality. How can i do that?

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

Guessing you want smart render.

Premiere does not do smart render on H.264.

https://helpx.adobe.com/nl/premiere-pro/user-guide.html/nl/premiere-pro/using/smart-rendering.ug.htm...

[Dstr0]

Thank you very much 🙂

[Dstr0]

Hey, i've just tried it out (i've used QuickTime > Animation), for some reason the output file was like 64GB... What codec do you personally use?

[R Neil Haugen]

For what use?

Highly-compressed "long-GOP" formats like H.264/265 can be visually so close that they are heavily used for deliverables for streaming services.

However, they don't hold up well through several "generations" of use, so an upper-quality intraframe codec like Cineform, ProRes, or DNxHD/R is used for both 'archiving' and for digital intermediates ... when you may need to do several generations of work on a clip.

So ... what do you need it for? The usage is normally the major determinate of what format/codec to use.

Neil

[Dstr0]

I only need to store it on my hard disk, no YouTube upload or anything. Thank you for helping me