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January 12, 2018
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I'm trying to export a 2 hour feature film in 4K. Please help!

  • January 12, 2018
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Hello everyone,

I'm Nirav.

I'm trying to export a feature length film in 4K.

Running time- 2 Hours.

System Used-

Dell Insipron Gaming Desktop 5675

AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Eight Core Processor  3.4 GHz

RAM: 32GB DDR4 2400MHz

256GB SSD

1TB Harddrive

My question is how big should the file size be for 1080p HD and for 4K in the export settings?

I'm using Premiere Pro CC 2018.

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Correct answer yenaphe

Ok, I understand better your needs.

What I would go for, as a lot of festival will require a link to a platform such as Vimeo or Youtube, or a direct link to your file hosted on ftp, here are my recommendation:

For the 4k version:

h264 High Profile 5.1 - vbr 2 pass  - 10 mb/s with 20mb max

For the HD version:

h264 High Profile 4.1 - vbr 2 pass - 7mb/s with 14mb max.

You will find all these parameters in in the export menu and Adobe Media Encoder.

Hope this helps,

Seb

3 replies

yenaphe
yenaphe
Inspiring
January 15, 2018

    yenaphe
    yenaphe
    Inspiring
    January 15, 2018

    This is strange. Is any of your footage interlaced ?

    niravg94621866
    niravg94621866Author
    Participating Frequently
    January 15, 2018

    Actually I figured it out. I had to check the "Deinterlace" in the export.

    yenaphe
    yenaphe
    Inspiring
    January 12, 2018

    Hi Nirav,

    it's not really a question of file size, but more of what formst you need for the boradcast.

    For instance, if your feature film is to be broadcasted in theaters, you will probably have to export a 2k or 4k DCP, which will be a very large file, whereas if it's for On Demand Streaming, you will probably encode it in h264 which will be smaller because more compressed.

    The best thing is to ask the delivery platform what file format / codec they need your film to be delivered in.

    Hope this helps,

    Seb

    niravg94621866
    niravg94621866Author
    Participating Frequently
    January 12, 2018

    Thank you Yenaphe,

    I shot the entire film in 4K DCI (4096:2160) @24fps. Aspect ratio in premiere was set to 2.39:1.

    Therefore in my export settings, it is 4096:1714 for 4K, and 1920:802 for full HD. Right now my biggest concern is just exporting in full HD because I want to register for film festivals and will need to send them a copy. I just don't know how big should my file size be set at to export it. Also, should I export it to the HDD or SSD drive on the computer? The run time is EXACTLY 2 hours.

    Nirav.

    yenaphe
    yenapheCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    January 12, 2018

    Ok, I understand better your needs.

    What I would go for, as a lot of festival will require a link to a platform such as Vimeo or Youtube, or a direct link to your file hosted on ftp, here are my recommendation:

    For the 4k version:

    h264 High Profile 5.1 - vbr 2 pass  - 10 mb/s with 20mb max

    For the HD version:

    h264 High Profile 4.1 - vbr 2 pass - 7mb/s with 14mb max.

    You will find all these parameters in in the export menu and Adobe Media Encoder.

    Hope this helps,

    Seb

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