Export Settings for In-House Screenings and Archive

Here below are the step by step settings and processes for exporting your films to be screened in-house from both FCP and Premier Pro. These export settings will produce a full resolution compressed delivery version of your film to be played directly from the computer. The file will be small and and managable but still excellent viewing quality, comparable to DVD.

Certainly you are welcome to also show your film from DVD if you wish to author a DVD disc with menu but this is not nessasary for in-house viewing. 

Certainly you should NOT be playing back your Master (ProRes or Component YUV) for screening. These formats are not designed for delivery and cause stuttering or other playback problems. 

Carefully follow the steps through below and you cant go wrong; just bring that file to the upstairs theatre computer on your memory stick, copy to desktop and your ready to present your work.

You will also be required to submit the exported movie file below to go into the IFSS student archive. After screening the files should be brought on memory stick to MIKE or KATRINA to be added to the server archive.

A word of warning – H.264/AVC exports can take a much longer period of time to render than other formats because of the complex form of compression – even more so if you’ve used complex effects or Magic Bullet. Be sure to leave yourself enough time to export.

DO NOT delude yourself into thinking you can do the H.264 render the Morning BEFORE the screening. Do it the NIGHT before. Take professional responsibility for your workflow process and manage it correctly and diligently.

Any questions, comments or concerns see Mike.

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Final Cut Pro – Export h.264/AVC Full-Res Widescreen

- Choose FILE > EXPORT QUICKTIME CONVERSION

- Chose a Location to export to.

- Where its says SETTING choose QUICKTIME MOVIE

- Choose OPTIONS > SETTINGS

- Where its saids DATARATE select RESTRICT TO and enter 2000 (kbits/sec)

- Press OK

- Go to SIZE and where it saids DIMENSIONS choose CUSTOM and then enter 1024 x 576
(DV widescreen is 720 wide with a pixel aspect stretch of 1.422:1. If we times 720 x 1.422 we get 1024. Therefore 1024 is the Square pixel equivalent of DV windscreens rectangular pixels. 1024×576 will look exactly the same as 720×576 with a Pixel stretch of 1.422:1)

- Click DEINTERLACE SOURCE VIDEO and press OK

- Sound settings should read 48,000hz 16bit Stereo. This is fine (uncompressed audio)

- Press SAVE

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Premiere Pro – Export h.264/AVC Full-Res Widescreen

- Choose FILE > EXPORT > Adobe Media Encoder

- From the settings in the right hand panel choose:

Format = H.264
Range = Entire Sequence
Preset = PAL DV

- On the VIDEO tab change FRAME WIDTH to 1024 (leave HEIGHT at 576)

- Field Order should be (NONE) PROGRESSIVE

- Change Pixel Aspect Ratio to SQUARE PIXELS

- Where it saids BITRATE ENCODING change this to CBR

- Where it saids BITRATE (Mbps) change this to ‘2′

- You Dont need to change the Audio Tab

- Press OK

- In the next Window Name your Export and select a location to Save it to, Press SAVE

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Of course you will also need to export a Lossless Master file of your project which is your responsibility to create and store on your hard drive. Within the school the best format for this generally is ProRes422.