Adobe Premiere Elements 8 - Manual (Page 276)

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Saving and sharing your movies
Last updated 8/12/2010
within another Adobe Premiere Elements project or from another application that supports the command. None
specifies that the information is not included. This option is available only for DV and WAV formats and is on by
default.
Video export settings
The following options are available in the Video panel of the Export Settings dialog box:
Compressor Specifies the appropriate codec for your TV standard.
Color Depth Specifies the color depth, the number of colors to include in video that you export. This menu may not be
available if the selected compressor supports only one color depth.
Frame Size Specifies the dimensions, in pixels, for video frames you export. Choose 4:3 Aspect to constrain the frame
size to the 4:3 aspect ratio used by conventional TV. Some codecs support specific frame sizes. Increasing the frame
size displays more detail, but uses more disk space and requires more processing during playback, which can cause
poor playback on slower computers.
Frame Rate Specifies the number of frames per second for video you export. Some codecs support a specific set of
frame rates. Increasing the frame rate may produce smoother motion (depending on the original frame rates of the
source clips) but uses more disk space.
Pixel Aspect Ratio Specifies the pixel aspect ratio of the exported file. If you are exporting to DV AVI, choose any of
the four D1/DV NTSC or DV PAL ratios, depending on the TV standard of your geographical region. Otherwise,
choose the option that matches your source video or that conforms to your destination. For instance, because
Animated GIFs are viewed on a computer screen, which displays pixels in squares, the 1.0 aspect ratio is most
appropriate. When the pixel aspect ratio (displayed in parentheses) doesn’t match 1.0, the output type uses rectangular
pixels, which is the case for DV AVI ratios.
Quality Specifies the picture quality of and disk space used by exported video. If you are using the same codec to
capture and export, and you’ve rendered previews of a video, you can save rendering time by matching the export
quality setting with your original capture quality setting. Increasing quality above the original capture quality does not
increase quality, but may result in longer rendering times.
Note: The quality slider is not available for all codecs.
Limit Data Rate To _ K/Sec Specifies an upper limit on the amount of video data produced by the exported video when
it is played back. (This option may not be available for the selected compressor.)
Note: In some codecs, quality and data rate are interrelated, so that adjusting one option automatically alters the other.
Recompress Ensures that Adobe Premiere Elements exports a video file that is under the data rate you specified.
Always compresses every frame even if it is already within the data rate. Maintain Data Rate preserves quality by
compressing only the frames that are above the specified data rate. Recompressing previously compressed frames may
degrade picture quality. Deselect Recompress to prevent current compression settings from being applied to clips that
were not altered when you edited them into the program.
Keyframe and Rendering export settings
The following options are available in the General panel of the Export Settings dialog box:
The following options are available in the Keyframe and Rendering panel of the Export Movie Settings dialog box.
Bit Depth Specifies a bit depth for your exported movie. Use Project Setting uses the settings specified by the project.
8-bit forces the bit depth to 8-bit. Maximum uses the maximum bit depth available for the selected codec.