Mazin's Last Minute Adobe Premiere exporting guide

[Mazin]

Using Premiere? Need to get your animation in the right format? It's the same every year: You will get trapped by QuickTime.

1. Get your animation ready for export according to Autodesk's instructions for slate, audio, etc.
2. When you go to Export Movie, go into the export settings (on the save file dialog) and make sure you have:
   • General: File Type is QuickTime, other options should be default
   • Video: Compressor is "DV/DVCPRO - NTSC" and the frame size is 720x480, fps is 29.97, pixel aspect ratio (did you remember this when you animated?) is 0.9. Under the Compressor's "Configure..." choose Scan Mode Progressive and 4:3 aspect ratio.
   • Keyframe and Rendering: Fields should be "No Fields (Progressive Scan)"
   • Audio: Uncompressed 48kHz 15-bit sound
3. When you go to play back your shiny new MOV is QT, you might be astonished to notice how terribly crappy it looks. Fear not. QT is in low-quality mode for some reason. Set QuickTime to high quality: In QuickTime Player, Edit > Preferences > Player Preferences > Use high quality video setting when available.

Have fun and good luck with your animation!