exporting movies from Premiere

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Is there a way or a plug-in in Premiere to compress a timeline when exporting without loosing much of the resolution. It seems that when I encode out I don't get a good result.Basically exporting any movie as an MPEG1, is there a way to improve the resolution of the exported movie? I have tried Xing and Ligos encoders and I'm not yet happy. Thanks.

-- fernando torre (SATFJ@EXCITE.COM), May 21, 2001

Answers

I am not sure what you mean by "loosing resolution". I guess you mean loosing quality. Anyway, there is a great tool called AviSynth (http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~benrg/avisynth.html) that plugs into Premiere and allows you to frameserve the timeline to other compatible applications. This way you can avoid the final movie exporting and go directly to TMPGEnc or Panasonic Encoder etc.

-- Josh (jzari55@hotmale.com), May 21, 2001.

The problem here is not with Premiere but with the encoders you are using. Both those two Xing and earlier versions of Ligos LSX prided themselves on encoding speed at the expense of quality. It's sad that one of the first in this game was Xing, with its $250 stand-alone and Premiere plug-in (?) MPEG-1 encoders but no-one serious about quality will be caught dead with this Xing now. Those two encoders probably gave MPEG-1 and VCD quality a bad rap more than most. Then came much better Panasonic, with the latest ver. 2.51 also stand-alone and Premiere plug-in. Much better but slower, that is. In vogue at the moment may well be TMPGenc12e (freeware, yes!, and slowest at that), which when paired with AVISynth for Premiere produces MPEG-1 clips looking just like the original AVI. Lastly, it appears Ligos have upped their ante and have been given high marks in certain quarters with their new LSX MPEG suite.

-- Mehmet Tekdemir (turk690@yahoo.com), May 22, 2001.

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