Adobe Premiere CS5.5 and UT codec

[miojamo]

I have downloaded the codec and installed in win 7 64bit however I can't get the codec to show up on export list.

How to get the codec to show up?

Thanks in advance.

[poisondeathray]

I think newest version installs both x86 and x64 versions, did you look under "microsoft avi" in AME ?

[turk690]

In export, it's under Microsoft AVI, video tab>video codec pulldown where four choices are given: RGB, RGBA, YUV420, & YUV422. I exported a 2min45sec 60i1080 AVCHD clip with YUV420 and AME made a 3.77GB file. Cineform is much more efficient & its medium setting created a better-looking file, but I can't argue with UT being free.

[miojamo]

Thanks! One more question what aspect ratio to choose and filed type? I live in Europe, source video field type is progressive.

[budwzr]

Thanks! One more question what aspect ratio to choose and filed type? I live in Europe, source video field type is progressive.

It doesn't matter what the field type is, it's the playback and/or display device that determines the AR.

I've never used Cineform, since I like to edit in the native format, and that's AVC/AAC, so I don't mind to work at higher compression. But if GoPro owns that company, that means it's a good "general all around" codec.

The biggest issue is your computer. Can it run with the big dogs? There's little loss when you stay in the same codec and rerender. So long as you know what you're doing. You have to up-sample high enough to minimize artifacts of compression.

So remember that for the purpose of quality control, rerendering to the SAME codec is the least lossy method among lossy methods.

RGB = 8 bit
RGBA = 32 bit w/alpha
YUV420 = Uncompressed with limited color bit quantization
YUV422 = Full uncompressed frames

A lot of baloney is being passed around, mostly by AppleUsers, that you have to decompress completely for "quality", but actually it's because Macs are slower than PC's.