Final, Saving ...

-MajinLink- · Post by **-MajinLink-** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 8:09 pm

When it comes time to saving your music video off of premiere, do you just go.

File ---> Export ---> Movie?

Also, when I try saving it that way, the size of it is freaking HUDGE. Like over 600 MB. Why is that?

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 8:10 pm

Because you are exporting at high quality. As in no lossy inter-frame compression.

-MajinLink- · Post by **-MajinLink-** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 8:19 pm

So what your pretty much saying is that I can't save it as HIGH quality right?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 8:59 pm

-MajinLink- wrote:So what your pretty much saying is that I can't save it as HIGH quality right?

No, you <i>should</i> be saving huge HuffYUV files, <i>because</i> they're full quality. It's always good to have a lossless, full-res copy of your video around; distro copies can then be made from that, compressed with VDubMod or TMPGEnc.

-MajinLink- · Post by **-MajinLink-** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 9:10 pm

So I can't compress my videos size on premiere? And to do that I need to use VDubMod or TMPGEnc? I've tried using TMPGEnc before, to convert my format from .wmv to MPEG but the size just gets bigger and the quality drops.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 9:15 pm

-MajinLink- wrote:So I can't compress my videos size on premiere?

You can, but you wouldn't want to, because Premiere's resizing and post-processing suck. AVISynth is so much better for those.

-MajinLink- wrote:I've tried using TMPGEnc before, to convert my format from .wmv to MPEG but the size just gets bigger and the quality drops.

That's because you started with a .WMV.

Whenever you convert to a lossy format, there will be some quality loss. That's why you want to start with the highest-quality video you can, which brings us back to losslessly exporting from Premiere.

-MajinLink- · Post by **-MajinLink-** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 9:23 pm

Ahh, Hmkay. But when ever I capture, it always comes out as a .wmv format. =/

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 9:40 pm

Premiere should be able to capture to AVI. Check your settings.

I assume, then, that you're using VHS or LD source instead of DVDs, or otherwise that you don't have a DVD-ROM drive?

-MajinLink- · Post by **-MajinLink-** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 9:50 pm

I use Pinnacle Studio 8 to capture, it has MPEG and AVI settings. I tried saving a clip in MPEG format and then imported it onto premiere and then tried saving it. (Export) The size came out to 86.9 MB and it was a 24 second long clip. =/ I don't understand why the size is soo big. >.<

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:10 pm

To echo what Kalium said, the files are big because they don't use temporal compression and are lossless. This is a GOOD thing.

See if you can't get Pinnacle to capture to HuffYUV or DV AVI. Getting high-quality footage at the very first step in the process is the best way to keep quality high throughout.

And again, "<a href="http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfis ... t.html">If you have DVDs then, you should tear them up really.</a>"