The reason that you got the 720 x 480 Frame Size is that the DV CODEC, which creates files for DVD-Video.

Good luck,

Hunt

Steve,

I disagree here. Exporting/Sharing to a heavily-compressed MPEG CODEC will do zero for maintaining quality. When one re-edits, and Exports/Shares to any compressed CODEC, the quality will suffer once again. It is just like a FAX of a FAX.

Yes, lossless CODEC's do produce larger files, but smaller than Uncompressed. One can Exprot/Share to them in multi-generational versions, with zero loss in quality.

If one does not care about quality, then a heavily-compressed CODEC will yield smaller files - but only if one does not care about quality.

Hunt

But outputting to an uncompressed file can't ADD TO the quality of video file.

You are absolutely correct here.

Though for a different situation, the closest that one can come to "adding to" a Clip, would be with an app. like Red Giant's Magic Bullet Instant HD, when going from SD to HD. Even then, and with some pretty sophisticated algorithms, the difference can be noticeable, and off-putting. Some users can accept that up-rezzing, but many cannot.

As the material has already been heavily compressed to start with, there is no way to get back to the original signal, before the camera compressed it for its output file - there is no RAW version, lurking somewhere.

Where I have a problem, is with compressing that material again, costing what quality exists in the already compressed version.

I do agree that using a Lossless CODEC WILL create larger files. They are compressed, but the quality IS maintained. That compression is just far less, than if one re-compresses with some form of MPEG.

If file size IS an issue, and quality is not a concern, then re-compressing is certainly viable. For me, the file size is not an issue, but maintaining ultimate quality (however good that might be to start), certainly is. I Export/Share to create files, that will go into other programs, such as After Effects, then Export a file from AE, to come back into Premiere. If I am using PrPro, and the version of AE in my suite, I just use Adobe Dynamic Link (ADL), but with PrE, there is no ADL to other Adobe programs, even if one has them installed, so intermediate files are necessary. For those, I use Lagarith, or UT, for each direction.

It is the same, if I edit a Project, and then need to hand that footage off to another editor, to do more work with it. The only drawback is that the other editor will need the proper CODEC, say Lagarith, or UT installed, but both are free, and easy to install. I have also never encountered any problem, or conflict, when using either. They have always worked flawlessly on all of my systems, with all of my various editing programs - though I have probably just cursed myself with that statement...

I think that we mostly agree on all points.

Hunt

You are most welcome.

There are many considerations, when doing a Share/Export. If one plans on editing, and then Sharing/Exporting again, I recommend one of the lossless CODEC's, but at the expense of large file sizes.

Good luck, and happy editing.

Hunt