I've been working the last year or so with Sony HDV footage that's
1080 interlaced, 1440x1080 resolution that's stretched with lengthy
pixels to look like 1920x1080. I want to share high-def shorts with
other people, so I've been testing different high-def export settings
in the Premiere Pro CS2's Adobe Media Encoder.
You can see the results on the bottom of my admittedly stark web
page, www.laughingeel.com. The top two high-def videos, "Green Water,
White Mirth," and "Komodo Beneath the Waves," are the results of my
recent experiments. I ended using Windows Media Video compression
because QuickTime export seems broken in Premiere, and the other
compressions didn't work out well for me.
I'd love any feedback from other folks working in HDV with
suggestions on how to improve quality and decrease file size. It
turns out that you can export presets from the Adobe Media Encoder,
so I did just that with my custom settings into a file called "HDV to
HD web video file.vpr". I uploaded it to the files section of this
list's Yahoo Groups web page. You can load it in Premiere Pro by
copying it to your computer, clicking the load button to the right of
the Preset pulldown in the Export Settings dialog box, and selecting
the file. (To save a preset to share with other people, press Alt and
click the save (disk) button to the right of the Preset pulldown.)
In a nutshell, my compression settings use the Windows Media Video 9
codec, one pass, constant bitrate, 1440x1080 pixels with an aspect
ratio of 1.3333 for widescreen, 29.97 fps, max bitrate 6000 kbps,
image quality 100. A 3-minute video ends up in a file that's about
130 megabytes large.
Any suggestions? Any one else with some more successful encoding
settings for HD web files? Anyone with some great export settings to
share in viper (.vpr) files? Compression is a tricky business and the
Adobe documentation doesn't even scratch the surface.
Thanks,
Mike Boom
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