I know this question has been asked over and over, but I can’t seem to find a definitive answer to my own personal exporting question.
I’m currently working on a project for class, showing different shots and whatnot. The camera I use is the Canon HV20 and the editor I use is Adobe Premiere CS3. A few specs on my computer to get that out of the way: Quad Core Q6600, 1.5TB (3 500gb hds), 4gb ram, 8800GTS video card.
Now, on to my question: When I import my video files from the camcorder, I use a firewire cable and capture the videos directly into Premiere. I then edit the videos as needed and then export. Usually, I’m exporting files for youtube, so I don’t care about quality those times. But when I want to export and then put on a DVD, I always seem to run into problems.
I want to be able to export from APP, have the file be great quality (preferably the same or close to the HD that I imported), and burn to a DVD. If I export an uncompressed AVI, even for 1 minute and 50 seconds, I get a huge file size (I’ve had up to 6GB). Now, I understand that uncompressed HD video is going to be pretty large, and maybe that is normal (I’m new to HD), but I seem to have problems trying to find the right balance to export a good quality file that doesn’t skip or have broken pixels and such.
So if anyone, based on this information, might be able to help me out, I would be very happy. I’ve tried different FPS (23.97, 29.97, 30, etc.), different pixel aspect ratios (most people point to 1:1 square pixels), and different codecs (I’m told to still export uncompressed and then use a compression program like Sorenson Squeeze or DivX to make it smaller for the web), but like I said, I can’t seem to find the right balance.
I have the project I’m working on uploaded to youtube currently:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7CfzDdQ2xSA
Obviously I don’t want that much of a black border, so I need to fix that as well – original file resolution I believe is 1440×1080. I was able to get rid of the border by fixing the dimension size from the default 720×480, but maybe there is a different way as well.
Thanks in advance!
-John
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