Premiere Pro 1.5 - H.264 Quicktime Export

[video_guy]

Hello,

I have been trying to export a Quicktime .MOV file encoded with the x264 H.264 codec in Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5. The only problem is that the file size always ends up huge! The video is about six minutes long (5:48 to be exact) and the Quicktime MOV file ends up being 281 mb! The setting I have set in Premiere Pro are as follows:

Format: Quicktime
Compressor H.264
Color Depth: Millions of colors
Frame Size: 320x240
Frame Rate: 29.97
Quality: 100%
Audio: QDesign2, Stereo, 16-bit, 44100 Hz

Also, I downloaded the large King Kong teaser from Apple.com that is about two and a half minutes and it is only 24.1 mb encoded in H.264. And all the settings above that I have been trying to mess with have matched those of that video (only a smaller frame size, which should lower the size of my video). So I know I am doing something wrong.

If someone could please help me out it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

[celtic_druid]

If you are encoding via Quicktime, then you are using their AVC encoder, not x264.

Size is just bitrate * time. So if you want a smaller file. Use a lower bitrate.

x264 would be better though, it is capable of better quality and is much faster.

I would also suggest aac audio and use mp4 instead of mov as a container.

[video_guy]

Thanks for the reply. I did figure out that I was using the Quicktime encoder, not x264.

I am still having problems though exporting. Even when I change the export settings to a lower bitrate in Premiere Pro 1.5 the file still ends up being the same size. And also, you suggested to use mp4 instead of mov and in Premiere I have found where to change it to mp4 but I don't know where to select H.264 (do I just select H.264 and type .mp4 at the end of the filename?). I also can't find were to select AAC audio - I don't see it in the drop-down menu under the Audio settings. And help would be appreciated!

[mikiem]

Not at all sure about what quicktime stuff ships with prem, but traditionally I think need Q/Time pro to get access to a lot of formats/settings, & even then didn't come close to the output of sorenson encoder, but that was a few years back when tried it, so definitely FWIW.