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So we don't do many animations here in the office and I was wondering if anybody has some good hints for Adobe Premier Pro? We have V1 & V2.

We rendered a bunch of frames at 960x540 without really looking at Premier first and realized that none of the default projects have that size. So we went through some of the customize features and got a decent looking WMV at 960x540 at a bitrate of 3072.

There is also an output to MOV, which I would love to use, but I can only seem to get it to make GIGANTIC file sizes. Like 450 megs for 10 seconds. Does anybody know the setting the movie houses use when they put their trailers on the Apple website (which that portion of the site isn't working lately)?

Chris

If you have latest version of Quicktime installed, I would suggest you using H264 codec for encoding your videos.

Yeah, use Quicktime Pro to encode in H264, simply rocks
Keep the input file as high quality as you can I would say (but I don't have any real experience with animation/video either).

Chris, for animations I always use 720x480 which is a standard size for NTSC broadcast or more commonly what you will see when you watch a non HD television broadcast. I would stick with this size unless you wanted to move into HD territory. The MOV codec will produce superior video quality but the cost is going to be file size, use the H246 codec and your file sizes will be more manageable but they will still be bigger than windows media files.

Okay, so next time we should render at 720x480. That's actually good, smaller frames equal faster times.

With Quicktime Pro, can you import numbered frames and it strings them together into a video, or do I still have to use Premier first? If I still have to use premier, would I string them together and output them as an AVI which I believe is an uncompressed video?

Thanks,
Chris

Pro can import sequenced frames and export them as a complete .mov file and the quality is very good. Premiere can do the same and you can export it in either a QuickTime or windows media file and you can export those in either a compressed or uncompressed format. If you have no need to edit the video then using Pro is a good option.