At 08:04 PM 10/4/2007, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
>Newer codecs like DivX (and the free clone XviD) have
>been designed for achieving MPEG2 quality at much
>higher levels of compression. Several DVD players in
>stores now will play these videos.
Which of these newer codecs are available directly through Premiere
Pro? I know that MPEG4 contains a number of different codecs that are
much better than the old MPEG2 codec, and includes the H.264 codec
that Apple is pushing. In experimenting with codecs available through
the Adobe Media Encoder included with Premiere Pro, I got the best
results from the Windows Media 9 codec. I got truly horrible results
with H.264, but suspect that it's somehow broken in the Adobe Media Encoder.
You can use external applications to encode video, and I've tried
them, including DivX, XviD, and H.264 through a QuickTime clone. They
didn't quite match up to the Windows Media 9 codec in my experience,
at least for trying to encode a 3-minute HDV 1080i video to a file
that was less than 200 megabytes in size. They either looked blockier
or created much larger file sizes.
I'd love to hear about other experiences, though, especially with
H.264, which I've heard can do great things with HD video. In fact, a
list like this is the perfect place to share compression settings,
especially since you can save them as a single .vpr file from
Premiere Pro so that you fellow videographers can load it, try it,
and reap the benefits of your experience.
How about it, compression aces?
Mike Boom
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