Re: PPRO CS4 export to Apple Compressor?

Thanks for your response.

What I’m creating is a one-hour movie to be encoded in the Quicktime H.264 format. It will be available for download from a website and as a DVD-ROM. It consists mostly of talking head footage, captured in HDV (NTSC) on the Canon HV20, 24 fps (1080i), but also files created in After Effects CS4 and Illustrator CS4. The original footage is in 1920x1080, but it is cut down to 1280x720 (which is my sequence setting). The idea is to ultimately export a file that’s 640x480.

I would use Final Cut Pro 6, but PPro has my preference because of the integration with the Suite. Also, as much as I want to like FCP, I just don’t. However, it comes with Compressor, which I would nonetheless prefer to use for compression, rather than having to now invest in Sorenson Squeeze 5. Hence my attempts at finding some workaround that enables the exporting of PPro files for Compressor.

So, it’s not the case that I want to import FCP files into PPro, but rather the opposite - assuming it isn’t possible to create a file for export directly to Compressor.

All of this, of course, is in the assumption that Adobe Media Encoder is inferior to Compressor or Squeeze. I wouldn’t know. I just know that - according to the tutorials in ‘Internet Killed the Videostar’ – it is not recommended to use your video editor for compression.

I’ve tried to export the file in some codec that approximates the native quality (for example HDV 1080p30), but I keep getting the black bars on the side. Perhaps this has to do with square pixels being the only option in the HDV 720p30 sequence setting in PPro?