Video Compression in Premiere

lordsofchaos0000 · Post by **lordsofchaos0000** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 2:02 pm

People have been telling me I need to select a different Compressor in Premiere when I begin a new project. I do not know how to do this, i believe I see where to do this, but its non-selectable...

Tsukin · Post by **Tsukin** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 6:29 pm

You might wanna include a little more information with your posts, or u won't exactly get any replies =P. What compressor were u using in the first place? And what compressor were u told to choose? And do u even have the codec to begin with?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 7:52 pm

Make sure you've selected "Custom" on the sidebar and not one of the presets. That might be it.

Lounge Fly · Post by **Lounge Fly** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 10:22 pm

to change it while in a project, go to:

Project>Project Settings>General/Video

Depending on what you choose for a compressor in General, you'll get different results in Video.

For instance, if you choose DV Playback in General, you'll only get to choose Microsoft DV (NTSC) or (PAL) in the Video sectionl

However, if you choose Video for Windows in the general section, and then go to video, you'll get a whole list of compressors to choose from such as Cinepak, Huffyuv, XVid and so forth.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 11:30 am

Lounge Fly wrote:to change it while in a project, go to:

Project>Project Settings>General/Video

Except that Premiere Pro will not let you change it in the middle of a project; you can only set it at the beginning.

Lounge Fly wrote:Depending on what you choose for a <b>compressor</b> in General, you'll get different results in Video.

For instance, if you choose DV Playback in General, you'll only get to choose Microsoft DV (NTSC) or (PAL) in the Video section

If by "compressor" you mean "format", then yes.

DaNuKa_SAN · Post by **DaNuKa_SAN** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 9:49 am

U should b able to change the settings once u are ready to export ur video...
under export timeline and movie theres a settings button were u sjhould b able to make last minute changes

lordsofchaos0000 · Post by **lordsofchaos0000** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 9:57 am

~Ok, I got all that, now which one do you guys suggest??(compressor thingy)

lordsofchaos0000 · Post by **lordsofchaos0000** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 9:58 am

Lounge Fly.. I gotta ask you this, is that girl in your avatar, your girlfriend?

Herbert West · Post by **Herbert West** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 10:01 am

The new guide describes how to setup a new Premiere project.

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... setup.html

Imho best Codec for preview is MJPEG.

lordsofchaos0000 · Post by **lordsofchaos0000** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 10:17 am

Herbert West wrote:The new guide describes how to setup a new Premiere project.

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... setup.html

Imho best Codec for preview is MJPEG.

Thanks Man, Helped. Another question.. when im converting in virtualdub what should i so called "compress" it.. i heard i should use PICvid, but when i do, this really annoying add displays on the top and bottom of the screen..