Export Timeline To Movie

[cliffboy]

I'm using Adobe Premier and I need advice on this one.

I want to compile my video clips in the timeline and export it to a final movie. Which movie or file format should that be?

I've used AVI but it usually takes a lot disk space. I want a video file format that is more compressed.

[SonicVanguard]

What do you want to do with the movie? Watch it on your PC? Burn to DVD? Burn to (S)VCD? Stream it over the web? The answer will be determined by your final use of the video.

Dave.

[cliffboy]

Thanks for your reply SonicVanguard.

I want to burn the AVI movie in the timeline to VCD.

[SonicVanguard]

For a VCD, you need a MPEG-1 compliant stream. The Philippines use the NTSC video standard, so your VCD would look like this:

Video:
1150 kbit/sec MPEG-1
352 x 240 pixels
29.97 frames/second (23.976 frames/second NTSC Film)

Audio:
44100 Hz
224 kbit/sec MPEG-1 Layer2

You've got two decent options: output your video in AVI (keeping your existing frame rate and so on). Then use TMPGEnc to encode your AVI to a complaint MPEG-1 stream for burning. The other option would be to directly output from Premiere in the format you need. Personally, I'd rather output to AVI since it's technically a lossless format. Then use TMPGEnc to encode to MPEG-1 (TMPGEnc has a better MPEG encoder than the one bundled with Premiere).

After you've got your compliant video, burn with VCDEasy and you're all set.

Dave.

[cliffboy]

Thank you, SonicVanguard. Yeah, AVI is a pretty good format.

I've tried outputing directly to MPEG-1 via LSX MPEG Encoder[ligos] plug-in for Premiere and the result is not as good as the original AVI files. Though the total output file size has been reduced, you also see a lot of pixelization.

I'm only runnin' FAT32 because I've only got a Win98 SE system, so file sizes are limited as compared to NTFS systems. That is my concern. I'm only limited to limited-time AVI file outputs because of FAT32's file size limitations, I believe. I recently worked on a 26-minute length AVI clip compilation on the timeline, and after exporting to the final AVI output, some of the clips in the timeline were not encoded. So the total output file time was also reduced to 23 minutes.