h.264 secrets

H.264 is fine for delivery of totally finished goods. That means finished as in color corrected, cleaned, de-noised etc.. If you plan on offering raw flat goodies then you have to give a more data fat formats. There will come a time where the higher end buyers will demand raw so that hey can color match to whatever project they are working on. It will be interesting to see what the future holds.

Do stock sites even accept raw files?

@Videostock50: Adobe default keyframe is .... 72 frames!!!


@vadervideo: H.264 is fine for intermmediates too. What do you want more than lossless, 444 color space and 720,000 kbits/sec??? Do you think that 720,000 kbits/sec is not "data fat" enough???

It is fine, but many people do not know the real capabilities of it. The confusion comes from the fact that H264 uses Levels and Profiles and many people think that this codec is limited to the 4.1 level which is the biggest allowed by Premiere/Adobe for export.

If you need higher bitrate and color space than go with ffmpeg instead of Adobe.

VaderVideo's Youtube tutorial was VERY helpful for me in figuring out the right settings to export from Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.



Loading up and cutting footage for stock

I had a look at VaderVideos's youtube tutorial.

Learned something really useful on CS6 that I didn't know - thanks Vader.

i have canon 600d and i use aimersoft video converter my question is : is this good enough preset -

VIDEO ---- H264 ,frame rate 29,97 ,1980x1080 ,bitrate 30000 kbs
AUDIO ----- AAC ,bitrate 512,sample rate 48000