Devin Johnston Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 I'm still using CS3, I've been using Premiere since college and although I'm not completely happy it has more or less served me well so far. One thing that I keep hearing is that Adobe uses a simplified version of Apples H.264 codec for its exporter. I think this is a valid point as I seem to be hitting a wall with the quality I'm able to get out of it. I've been comparing the quality between Premiere's H.264 exporter and Apple QuickTime Pro 7's H.264 exporter and there is a massive difference. Not only is the QuickTime Pro's video quality easily double that of Premiere's but the file size for the Quick Time Pro exporter is half that of Premiere. This either means Premiere is using a massively inferior exporter or I'm just screwing up the setting, which is entirely possible. I know we've had discussions about this topic before but I want to know if what I'm experiencing is the result of a bad configuration on my part or because there really is a difference in the two exporters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctk111 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 I haven't used Premiere since 1.5 and as I recall then, I never liked the quality I was getting from the export settings. I find now that I use AE more often and I export as avi. Then I import that to quicktime pro. From there I save as a .mov file and get really good results. Maybe you can give the .avi to .mov a try via QT Pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted March 5, 2010 Author Share Posted March 5, 2010 The problem is that we need WMV's to use in our Power Point presentations since PP won't support Quick Times. I'm also experiencing a nice little problem right now with the exporter, any time I try to select WMV as my format the damed thing crashes. I've tried completely reinstalling it but I get the same thing. I'm really not liking Premiere right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctk111 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 What about Windows Media Encoder? Have you tried exporting out as avi and then compressing in WME? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted March 5, 2010 Author Share Posted March 5, 2010 Yes but I don't really see much of a difference in quality and it takes so long do do all of that. Actually I think the windows media encoder messed up Premiere, I installed it this morning to try some things out and the next time I tried to export from Premiere is when it started crashing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctk111 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 I did some poking around and this might be an option. Seems it's a third party app which allows you to run QT in PP 2007. http://qt4all.onestop.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macer Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 I'm still on Premier Pro (a lot of wmvs too) but have been wondering about going to Quicktime Pro (for better H.264), as many people seem to prefer this workflow and it seems to being a file type thats growing in popularity. Not meaning to hijack your thread, but does anyone know if Quicktime Pro works on a 64 bit OS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted March 5, 2010 Author Share Posted March 5, 2010 I'm using it on XP64 without problems other than what I've already stated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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