h.264 secrets

Ok guys and gals, time to spill the secret. Who is uploading h.264 instead of Photo JPEG?
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If using Premiere Pro CS6 what settings, codex, packaging, quality and settings etc etc are you using?
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Ryan; what does P5 and buyers think about h.264 versus Photo JPEG?

So non-Premier Pro CS6 and non-h.264 users find your own thread to argue on ;)

I've been using Premiere Pro CS6 for awhile now. You get Adobe Media Encoder CS6 with it. That's what I use to turn the videos into .mov files. My camcorder takes AVCHD or MP4 natively. I setup presets with various settings. I use the format "Quicktime" and the codec h.264 at 100% and set the frame rate according to whatever camera I'm using.

Hi Don,
I looked into this as there is an agency which only accept H.264.
I use Prem Pro CS6
Format: Quicktime
Video codec: H.264
Basic Video Settings: Quality 100% Frame rate: 23.976 (in my case) field order: Progressive Aspect:Square Pixels
Render at Max depth: selected
Advanced settings: none selected
Bitrate: Limit data rate to: not selected
Use Maximum Render Quality: selected
Use Frame Blending: not selected

Forgot to say, I only use Photo-Jpg for Pond5

One important setting is the keyframe rate: set it at each 1 frame.

H264 is very powerful and versatile codec. It has profiles and levels which allow compressing of files up to 1,920×1,080@172fps, 2,560×1,920@108, 3,840×2,160@66.8fps, 4,096×2,160@60fps, 4,096×2,304@56.3fps. It could compress even 444.

Premiere is limited to level 4.2!!! If you need a higher profile encode your files using FFMPEG.


More info at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H264

My Premiere crashes when I try to export H.264 in a Quicktime wrapper. I don't know why.

I have always done h.264 although I am using final cut x and not adobe. I can't imagine the amount of hard drive space, not to mention upload times that would be taken by using photo jpg. In talking with the other agencies I submit to they all preferred h.264. I have not however got a reply from anyone here at pond 5.

ODesigns,
Strange, as I have had no problems with CS6 and Quicktime/H.264

ionescu

You say "One important setting is the keyframe rate: set it at each 1 frame."

On CS6 there is a setting on "advanced" to set a keyframe. I have left it deselected so I wonder what keyframe rate it has given me as a default ;-)
I thought the whole point of H.264 was not to have a keyframe every 1 frame to make file size smaller. The files coming out of the DSLRs don't have a keyframe every frame, not sure every how many it is though.

Jakerbreaker
I always check Getty (as I've mentioned before ;-) and they are happy with H.264 as long as that is what came out of the camera.