Adobe Premiere Pro

EXPORTING WEB MOVIES

Thank you to Jonathan Tyrell, ECI Media Arts faculty, for his ongoing advice on compression formats for the Web and Mini-DV.

To render a QuickTime movie from Premiere, which you would then add to a web page and publish for the World Wide Web, the process is very similar to exporting a digital movie (DV), one that you would dub later to Mini-DV.

• Exporting digital video movies from Premiere Pro, and dubbing DV movies to Mini-DV cassette

There are a few differences though: with a web movie, you must change the dimensions (height & weight, or vertical & horizontal dimensions), and the frame rate. Premiere will also compress the movie differently. As a result, the size of each file will differ dramatically: digital video is much larger than web movies.

These are some of the key differences:

To export a web movie from Premiere, you will follow the same steps as you would to render a file destined for Mini-DV. The main difference is that you would enter particular values in the Export Settings.

Exporting a web video file from Adobe Premiere

To begin, you should make a folder called "movies" in your project folder, This is where you will keep the movie files that you export from Premiere, whether they are DV compression or web movies.

To prepare a final rendering of a Premiere project, you should use the Work Area Bar in the Timeline to select the section that you intend to export.Then, you must go to File > Export > Movie, to organize the rendering process. An Export Movie window will then appear, and you should do the following:

• Save in: Scratch Disk / your project / movies
• File name: Give the movie a short name, without spaces in the name

Click the Settings Button to make adjustments to the Export Movie Settings. Referring to the Export Movie Settings window, you should look at the left-hand column, choose "General," and make the following entries:

• File Type: Choose "QuickTime"
• Range: Work Area Bar
• Select "Export Video" and "Export Audio," (you don't have to "Add to Project When Finished")
• Embedding Options: Select "None"
• Press OK

Then, referring to the left-hand column in the Movie Settings Window again, choose "Video" and make the next series of video compression selections:

• Compressor: Choose "Sorenson"
• Colour depth: Millions
• Frame size: 320 x 240
• Frame rate: 15
• Pixel aspect ratio: Square Pixels (1.0)
• Quality: 80%
• Data rate: 300 k/sec
• Choose "Maintain data rate"
• Press OK

Finally, referring to "Audio" in the left-hand column of the Export Movie Settings, make sure that you choose the following audio compression options:

• Compressor: Q Design Music 2
• Sample rate: 48000 Hz
• Sample type: 16-bit
• Channels: Stereo
• Interleave: 1 frame
• Press OK

Going back to the Export Movie window again, press Save. Premiere will then render a DV file for you and place it in your "movies" folder. It is important to note that you should archive the file (that is, burn it on a CD), as it is now a "stand-alone" movie file.

Once you have rendered a QuickTime move, you should then be ready to add it to a web page.

• To embed a QuickTime movie in a web page

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