Premiere Pro CS5.5 Export issue.

[Remeran]

So I took some footage using my EOS 600D from Canon, 1080p, 24 fps and all that Jazz. Got it onto my computer and it looked like something you'd see David Attenborough talking over (it was Macro woodland footage - moss and nettles and the like), I thought "Great! Time to cut it all together and stick some music over it!"

So I did.

All is well.

I got to the exporting stage, chose my settings I usually use:
Format : Windows Media
Preset : Custom (unchanged)

Output: C:\User\----\Videos\(Name of file)
1280x1080, Progressive
440kbps, 44kHz, 2 channel 24 bit VBR
Compressed, CBR, 1 pass, Audience:1, Max 256.00kbps (Could this be the problem?)

Source: Sequence, Sequence 01
1920x1080 (1.0), 23.976 (24) fps, Progressive, 00:02:21:20
48000 Hz, Stereo

Basic Video settings:

Codec : Windows Media Video 9
[ ] (unchecked) Allow interlaced processing
Encoding passes: 1
Bitrate mode: Constant
Frame width : 1280 pixels
Frame height : 1080 pixels
Frame rate : Same as source
Pixel aspect ratio: Square pixels (1.0)

[/] (Checked) Render at maximum Depth

Image quality 100

Decoder complexity : Auto





So with that in mind, when the video is finished, it looks absolutely terrible. Worse than that of 240p from youtube, for example. It's jumpy and is generally bad.

Where am I going wrong? All other videos I've produced have turned out fine

One thing i have noticed is that the encoding time races to around 50% and then slows right down to 'normal' so I'm thinking that has something to do with it.

Anybody got any solutions? I tried searching the web but nothing fitted my problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[smrpix]

Try ticking "match sequence settings" when you export.

1280x1080 is unusual, 256kbs waaaay too low. wmv is not a great output format anyway. See if that helps.

[aedipuss]

first try using mediainfo on one of your canon .mov file. normal is 1920x1080p30 @50mbps. why did you change it to 24p? if anything in england it should be 25p for pal tv. and that output setting of 1280x1080 is just weird, it should be 1920x1080 or 1280x720. 256kbps might be ok for web video at 240x180 but even then it would look like trash. try for a minimum of 5 MBPS for HD 1080 to look good.

[Remeran]

I feel like an Idiot. Even when typing this out I didn't spot it.

Many thanks for pointing this out! My computer is taking a longer, more re-assuring time to encode.

Thanks again!

Problem solved

[smrpix]

Glad it worked out. Kinda remembered, 1280x1080 is a legitimate DVCPro anamorphic pixel format -- rarely used. I've never run across it in the wild.