Exporting Shotty Quality AVIs
by David Ou
on
Oct 17, 2008 at 11:20:30 pm
I'm very new to AE but had months of experience with Premiere and I've been exporting out choppy and very low quality videos. I thought it was just the videos I had been using since Premiere does not edit with MPEG files well. But I've been doing little projects without any video footage and just within AE and everything renders in AVI were horrible in the same way.
I see a perfectly nice and smooth video in AE but it turns out hideous when I export to AVI.
I did not touch the settings but increased "Depth: Millions of Colors." and quality to Best (and it still looks really bad.)
Video settings-
Compression: Cinepak
Depth: Millions of Colors
Quality: Best
Key frame rate: 24
Data rate: 90 KBytes/sec
and I did not touch the sound settings.
My editing computer is quite sufficient.
Intel Quadcore 2.4GHz
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
I'm not too sure how much RAM I have but it is greater than 2.5GB
I would gladfully provide any more information and system specs if requested.
I appreciate anyone who would lift me from the ignorance which I'm in to produce such less-than-desirable quality videos.
Re: Exporting Shotty Quality AVIs by Roland R. Kahlenberg on Oct 18, 2008 at 2:43:18 am
[David Ou]"Compression: Cinepak
Depth: Millions of Colors
Quality: Best
Key frame rate: 24
Data rate: 90 KBytes/sec"
Cinepak is a legacy CODEC. You stil see it available as a CODEC to allow you to playback older AVIs that were encoded with the CODEC. In short, Cinepak is not a CODEC that you want to use for encoding, today or in the last few years.
90KBps is too low. You didnt mention your comp size so I'm assuming that it is D1.
Lastly before more deifnitive tips can be provided, please state why it is that you are compressing to AVIs - Web delivery, computer-based presentations???
From there someone may be able to provide you with a more precise direction.
Cheers
RoRK
broadcastGEMs.com - the leader in customizable royalty-free animated backdrops
Re: Exporting Shotty Quality AVIs by David Ou on Oct 18, 2008 at 3:23:44 am
I was converting it to AVI because I thought it was a solid file format to edit after my long and arduous troubles with other file formats. This conclusion was only drawn up after a limited amount of research and experimentation in Premiere, so I'm all ears to know what file formats are recommended for editing.
I'm not too sure what you mean by D1. But if you're talking about hard drive space, I have around 200GB and thinking about getting an external hard drive later on.
And I edit to make movies as a hobby. But I have a large project on way in the future so my aim in the end is to produce the highest quality achievable.
Re: Exporting Shotty Quality AVIs by Roland R. Kahlenberg on Oct 18, 2008 at 8:22:40 am
For hobbyist and semi-professional work, I'll recommend the DV format. It's a 720x576 pixel PAL) and 720x480 (NTSC) pixel resolution. You'll get about 4.5minutes for each gigabyte of storage space. You'll normally use the firewire interface for transfer from a DV camera to Premeire and use the same interface to putput to tape.
From DV, you can also output to DVD.
The CODEC you'll want to use for the AVI video architecture is also known as DV. If you don't have a 3rd party video input/output device then you'll have the Microsoft DV CODEC that comes installed together with all Windows machines.
HTH
RoRK
broadcastGEMs.com - the leader in customizable royalty-free animated backdrops
Re: Exporting Shotty Quality AVIs by David Ou on Oct 19, 2008 at 8:13:13 am
Changing from Cinepak to anything else actually solved the problem. though I had to jack up the frame rate to 60 to satisfy myself. The quality was pretty nice and a lot better than what it used to be. Though, I keep getting a feeling that some quality dissipated along the way, it might be just me. Though I am curious what is the ultimate quality file format.
Re: Exporting Shoddy Quality AVIs by Dave LaRonde on Oct 20, 2008 at 4:54:55 pm
[David Ou]" I had to jack up the frame rate to 60 to satisfy myself. The quality was pretty nice and a lot better than what it used to be. Though, I keep getting a feeling that some quality dissipated along the way, it might be just me."
No, it's not you. Good-looking video demands a LOT of storage space. I think nothing of making a 1-minute-long file that's 1.6GB in size.
When working with video, you need a lot of storage.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
