Media Encoding your Films (Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5)
You have no doubt spent a lot of the time and effort in pre and post production, as well as in shooting and filming
your project. So one must not forget that you should spend an adequate amount of time to ensure that everyone
you wish can view your film. Since there is currently no uniform and world-wide standard for film distribution, it is
down to you to spend time encoding the film into as many different file formats as needed.
For public distribution (still under the copyright and creative commons licence agreement) you should always include
the watermark (ncl-film-watermark.png).
For private use, where you control who has access to the film, you can use a watermark-free version to showcase the
film to its highest visual quality. Please give this to trusted parties only.
To capture the widest audience you will need to encode to three file formats:
1. Highest visual quality and to an agreed commercial standard – MPEG2 Blu-ray
2. Browser compatible html 5 web player standard – MP4
3. Browser compatible non-html 5 compliant – F4V aka Adobe Flash video
Although this does not guarantee a universal audience, it does give the greatest scope of coverage with multiple
media platforms worldwide into just three file format standards.
CAUTION: Ensure your Premiere Pro Project is set to encode to p24, that is progressive (not interlaced) and set to
just 24 frames per second, no more, no less.
Encode using Adobe Media Encoder via the usual ‘File > Export > Media…’ path from Premiere Pro.
Export Settings for MPEG2 Blu-ray - .m2t
Format:
MPEG2 Blu-ray
Preset:
HDTV 1080p 24 High Quality
Type in Comments:
Then change the following…
In the ‘Video’ Tab
Quality:
…
In the ‘Audio’ Tab
Audio Format:
…
In the ‘Multiplexer’ Tab
Multiplexing:
Blu-ray at 1080p24
4
(if it is not set to this already)
(o) Dolby Digital
(o) TS
You can reuse these settings quickly by saving it as a
preset called: Blu-ray (MPEG2 TS) - 1080p24
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Export Settings for F4V - .f4v
Format:
Preset :
F4V
Web – 1024x576, 16x9, Project Framerate, 1800kbps
Type in Comments:
F4V for Flash web player
Then change the following…
In the ‘Video’ Tab
Frame width:
Frame height:
…
Frame Rate [fps]:
…
Bitrate Encoding:
Target Bitrate [Mbps]:
Maximum Bitrate [Mbps]:
960 pixels
540 pixels
24
VBR, 1 Pass
1.5
4
You can reuse these settings quickly by saving it as a
preset called: Flash (F4V) - 960x540, 16x9, 24.00
Export Settings for MP4 - .mp4
Format:
H.264
Preset :
Apple iPad – 640x360, 16x9, 29.97, 1200kbps
Type in Comments:
Then change the following…
In the ‘Video’ Tab
Frame width:
Frame height:
…
Frame Rate [fps]:
…
Bitrate Encoding:
Target Bitrate [Mbps]:
Maximum Bitrate [Mbps]:
MP4 for html5 web player
960 pixels
540 pixels
24
VBR, 1 Pass
1.5
4
You can reuse these settings quickly by saving it as a
preset called: MP4 (H.264) - 960x540, 16x9, 24.00
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