However, what is clear is that you should take caution when exporting to h.264 from Premiere and Media Encoder. It's really difficult to speculate as to what's going on behind the scenes that's causing such a drastic difference in results between the two programs.
#ADOBE PREMIERE PRO 2014 VS 2015 PRO#
Here's the conclusion that Kroll came to in his post.Īfter seeing this I can confidently say that I will not be compressing to H.264 using Premiere Pro or Adobe Media Encoder any more. The image from Premiere is so much blockier, less detailed, and muddy looking, not to mention that the colors aren’t at all accurate. In fact I even did another output test later on with Premiere Pro set to 20,000 kbps and FCP X only set to 10,000 kbps and still the FCP X image was noticeably higher quality, so clearly something is up. Again, FCPX is on top, and Premiere on the bottom.Įxported from FCPX Exported from Premiere Pro This is where the difference between the two starts to become painfully obvious. Here's a version of the same shot that is cropped in on the woman's face by 400%. In the shots above, you'll notice more blocky compression artifacts in the version exported from Premiere, especially on the lower part of the woman's face, and there's a fairly significant reddish hue that's been introduced into the midtones and shadows of the Premiere export. According to Kroll, "both FCP X and Premiere Pro were set to output a high quality H.264 file at 10,000 kbps." The image on top was exported from FCPX and the bottom was exported from Premiere Pro. To his, and soon to be your, surprise, the exported result from FCPX yielded significantly higher image quality with the EXACT same export and compression settings.ĭon't believe it? Have a look for yourself. When a recently exported project came out with some nasty compression artifacts, blocky rendering of certain areas, and a noticeable change in color quality, Kroll put on his detective's hat and tried exporting again from FCPX. Having noticed that exporting from Adobe Media Encoder yielded quicker results than using the same settings and exporting from FCPX, he tended to use Media Encoder for the bulk of his exporting. A recent test by filmmaker Noam Kroll might just teach us to think twice before making assumptions.įirst, a little bit of background on Kroll's test. A rational person might assume that the program from which you export your media wouldn't have a noticeable impact on the quality of the final image, especially if the export settings are identical in both programs.
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