File-Export-Movie... HELP! Need Recomendations on export!

[Augster]

Hey,

I am using Premiere to capture and edit my home video taken via firewire from my miniDV cam. With that out of the way, 8) I would like to know what do do for exporting the file. What's best and quickest?

I have about 54 minutes of video. It's 11 GB @ 720x480. In Premiere, I tried to File-Export-Movie, with Microsoft AVI and no compression(although the stupid quality bar still only lets me do 75%). The computer worked on it for an hour then said my HD was full. WTF? I shut down Premeire and looked at the file, it was 65 GB!!! What the hell happened? That was a good wasted hour turning an 11GB file into 65GB. I think went back in and changed the Export to Microsoft DV AVI and in about an hour I got an 11.4GB file.

My question basically is, what is the correct/best setting for export? Do you use compression there? I am planning on using TMPGenc Plus! for the video conversion. Is leaving it at Microsoft DV AVI the best option? It exports at almost 1:1. Is that good, considering edits, titles, and transitions?

Thanks!

[Tommyknocker]

What exactly do you mean by export?

[pijetro]

Okay, let me take a stab at it..
In your case, the best option would be to export as the same settings as you captured, and the same as what the project settings are..

Therefore, capture settings, project settings, and export setting, are ideally the same .AVI.

Therefore, the only change in your video will be the transitions, titles, etc...

Good luck!!

[Augster]

Thanks.

By export, it's under File-Export-Movie in Premiere. It's just a MUX of the original, plus your changes output to a new .avi file.

So, am I getting, that I shouldn't do any compression at this point? When I tried to go to Microsoft AVI, it let me choose an encoding codec if I wanted such as Huffy and what have you. When I use the Microsoft DV AVI, it doesn't let you choose a codec. FYI, VirtualDub doesn't recognize AVI's encoded Microsoft DV AVI. Odd.

Since I recorded from MiniDV, I should just keep it in that form? Is an approximate 1:1 ratio for the export sounding about right? It's 54 mins long, and took about an hour to export. If it says 2 hours or so, I should cancel it and change settings? I still don't know how that file got to be 65 GIGS!

TK,

What are you using that you don't have to export your edited file? I would like to know AND USE IT! It took an hour to export then another 1:40 in TMPG to encode. Or will TMPG just take your Premeire Project file directly and convert it. THAT would save an hour for sure! Anyone know if that's one of TMPG's formats?

Thanks for the replies.

BTW, the titles and transitions in Premiere are just flawless. Really, really nice and smooth.

[pijetro]

FYI Microsoft DV is a compression. Therefore when you resave it, you haven't touched or recompressed anything. The only thing that gets recompressed is your transitions, titles, etc....
No worries in this department..Your Vdub won't open it, because you don't have a DV compatible codec to support viewing it. Do a search on Panasonic Codec...Install it, and your file should open up in Vdub (assuming it's a Type 2 .AVI).

Anyhoo, yes, you can skip the resave, and serve it straight off your timeline. In fact, you don't even need to go through TMPGENC. Go to File>Export>Mainconcept Encoder, and pick your settings..
This saves disk space also...

CRIPES, don't complain about the speed of encoding. That's fast dude. Especially with Tmpgenc, which everybody tends to agree, runs a bit slow..

[sacajaweeda]

What are you using that you don't have to export your edited file? I would like to know AND USE IT! It took an hour to export then another 1:40 in TMPG to encode.

AVISynth


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[Augster]

THanks a LOT for the Info! So Mainconcepts compression is fair to TMPG's do you think? That would be really nice to just compress from the timeline. And I spent all that time learning TMPG. LOL!

Avisynth. I wll do a search and see if I can find a guide or two. I tried it before, and couldn't get it to work. I had just fallen of the truck though.

I got TMPG to encode that "fast" by going CBR 8000 and Motion estimate. By my "experiments" with TMPG(and there have been a TON, see my other troubled posts ) the Motion Estimate option is 4 times faster than the "Highest Quality" Setting while using CBR 8000 and the difference in quality, at least with what I was doing, was negligible.

Thanks for the replies!

[sacajaweeda]

AVISynth takes a little getting used to, but once you get it down you won't go back