Author Topic: Divx Rendering settings with Adobe Premiere Pro (Read 431 times)

streetstang · « **on:** January 10, 2005, 08:49:46 AM »

Ok gents, title pretty much says it all.

I am just wondering what the best settings are to render an AH film to Divx. This isn't directly from AHF files but after its been converted to AVI, then rendering it with divx codec.

Been talking to stream a bit, and he gave me a few tips as well. Thanks stream for the help.

Thanks much

Morph

Kermit de frog · « **Reply #1 on:** January 10, 2005, 12:55:58 PM »

Whenver ever I try to render it in two passes with Divx, I always get in error. One pass works, but the quality just sucks. Samething happening to you Morph?

streetstang · « **Reply #2 on:** January 10, 2005, 01:04:19 PM »

I used mulit pass on my second try and got an error when opening it up in WMP. Have no idea whats going wrong but WMP dont like it.

I used single pass on the first try and the quality was absolutly horrible.

I should ask. Just what is the best codec, or rendering to use for the highest quality video? Rather than doing trial and error it would smarter for me to ask. Rendering a sequence for 40+ minutes only to have it look awful, is well, just a waste of time.

streetstang · « **Reply #3 on:** January 10, 2005, 01:06:23 PM »

btw, I did render with WM9 PAL with downlaod at 1024. It came out fine as far as picture quality but when I sent it to stream, he said he couldnt open it. But then I sent it to XtrmeJ and he was able to view it.
Could that just be a codec that Stream is missing and XJ is not?

Dux · « **Reply #4 on:** January 13, 2005, 03:32:48 PM »

I make alot of movies at work with Premiere, and I have to say that it's hard to get a better codec than the standard mpeg-2 or mpeg-4.

From Premiere, I always export the movie as an MOV (using Animation compression). Then I open that in QuickTime Pro 6.5 ($30) and export the MOV to an Mpeg-4 file. Beautiful quality.

Mpeg-2's are similar, but the compressors are expensive, and adding sound is a bit more tricky.

I also have a free DivX AVI plug-in for QTPro that I have never tried (I don't bother because it's not as well supported) but I bet that may work well. I'll test it when I have a minute.

[edit: Okay, I just tested the DivX AVI export from QuickTime Pro... not bad. It took a 70-second 902-mB MOV file (in NTSC format, 720x480 @ 29.97 fps) and spat out a pretty decent 8.8-mB AVI. A little banding in some light-blue transition areas, but not bad at all for what you get. I used the 1-pass method.]

It may be more of a matter of how good your original files are. You (ideally) should not be capturing the video using any kind of compression at all.