Datasheet

Part I ✦ Getting Started with Premiere

Exporting a QuickTime movie

Both Mac and Windows users can export Premiere projects as QuickTime movies.

QuickTime is widely used on the Web and can be imported into other programs

such as Macromedia Director and Macromedia Flash. Depending upon the final des-

tination of your project, you may want to change the frame size and frame rate of

our video before exporting. For example, if you want to export a file composed of

DV footage to a multimedia project, you’ll probably want to reduce the DV frame

size from 720 x 480 to a smaller size that fits comfortably into your production.

Here are the steps for exporting your project as a QuickTime movie:

1. Choose File ➪ Export Timeline ➪ Movie. The Export Movie dialog box

appears.

2. To view export settings in the Export Movie Settings dialog box, click the

Settings button. If you’re a Windows user, choose QuickTime from the File

Type drop-down list, as shown in Figure 1-13.

Figure 1-13: Windows users can switch to QuickTime format in the

File Type drop-down list.

3. To switch frame size and frame rate, choose Video from the drop-down list

at the top of the dialog box. The Video Settings dialog box appears. These

settings are covered in detail in Chapter 3.

4. Because you’re creating a multimedia project that will play on a computer,

select either Sorenson or Cinepak as the compressor. Optionally, you can

change the frame size to 320 x 240 and change the frame rate to 15. If you will

be outputting the file for computers with older CD-ROM drives, you will need

to lower the data rate to about 250 Kbps. Doing this slows the data rate to pre-

vent frames from being dropped during playback.

5. After you make your changes, click OK. Premiere Returns you to the Export

Movie dialog box.

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