Exporting HDV 24f m2t footage
 

What's the best exporting options? For either SD DVD or HD video file (AVI, MPEG2, ect.) Everything i keep exporting is all glitchy and jumpy.


-thanks in advance

IMHO, Adobe's Media Encoder is "broken" when it comes to down-rezzing from HDV to SD. It's horrible with down-rez! I use Debugmode's FrameServer (free... Google it) right from the PPro timeline and into a standalone encoder like ProCoder, TMPGEnc Express, or MainConcept's for beautiful down-rezzes.

You could also go intermediates with HuffyUV (free) or Cineform ($$$) and then into the encoder of your choice. OR, import your HDV project into an SD preset and scale down everything.

Let's hope Adobe fixes their encoder on CS3!!

Brian Brown
BrownCow Productions
http://www.brownland.org/blog/

Thanks for the reply man!!!

If your footage is glitchy and jumpy, you're probably using the wrong settings. As Brian stated above, Adobe is responsible for the quality, so exporting directly from Premiere will not be top notch, but the resulting video should not look glitchy or jumpy.

You may need to double check on your field order - while HDV is upper field first, standard definition DVD is lower first.