Media Encoding Your Films (Adobe Premiere Pro CC)

Media Encoding your Films (Adobe Premiere Pro CC)

You have no doubt spent a lot of the time and effort in pre and post production, as well as in shooting and filming your project. So one must not forget that you should spend an adequate amount of time to ensure that everyone you wish can view your film. Since there is currently no uniform and world-wide standard for film distribution, it is down to you to spend time encoding the film into as many different file formats as needed.

For public distribution (still under the copyright and creative commons licence agreement) you should always include the watermark (ncl-film-watermark.png).

For private use, where you control who has access to the film, you can use a watermark-free version to showcase the film to its highest visual quality. Please give this totrusted parties only.

To capture the widest audience you will need to encode to two file formats:

1. Browser compatible, compressed HD(html5 compliant)– MP4[WITH watermark]

2. Highest visual quality and to an agreed commercial standard – MPEG2 Blu-ray[WITHOUT watermark]

The last format (MPEG2 Blu-ray) will usually yield very large (>4 Gb) files so are not typically used for public distribution, thus the decision to encode ‘watermark-free’.

Although all the above formats do not guarantee a universal audience, it does give the greatest scope of coverage with multiple media platforms worldwide into just twofile format standards.

CAUTION: Ensure your Premiere Pro Project is set to encode to p24, that is progressive (not interlaced) and set to just 24 frames per second, no more, no less. (Note: On some systems, this may display as 23.976 fps.)
Generally, one would create a new sequence with the preset: AVCHD > 1080p > AVCHD 1080p24

Encode using Adobe Media Encoder via the usual ‘File > Export > Media…’ path from Premiere Pro.

Export Settings for MPEG2 Blu-ray- .m2t
Format: MPEG2 Blu-ray
Preset:HD 1080p 23.976

Type in Comments:Blu-ray at 1080p24

Then change the following (in this precise order)…
In the ‘Video’ Tab
Frame Rate:24
…
In the ‘Audio’ Tab
Audio Format: (o) Dolby Digital
…
In the ‘Multiplexer’ Tab
Multiplexing:(o) TS

You can reuse these settings quickly by saving it (with the ‘Save Preset’ button) as a preset called:
Blu-ray(MPEG2 TS) -1080p24

Export Settings for MP4- .mp4
Format: H.264
Preset :Android Tablet - 1080p 23.976