Anyone have a preference when exporting an HDV 60i setting From Premiere Pro? I particularly interested in HD mov settings with a QuickTime wrapper.

Moved to World Premiere from Canon XH A1 / G1 forum.

It's not really clear what you are asking ... what do you want to do with the resulting file?

For capture of 60i HDV, choose the appropriate Adobe HDV preset. It is built in to the regular version of 2.0. Note that you won't find it in the trial version, as there is no MPEG encoder.

It's not really clear what you are asking ... what do you want to do with the resulting file?

Sorry for not being clearer. The end result desired is a Quciktime file, at 1920 x 1080i with minimal compression. So far I've trive various settings including MPEG4, with poor results. The original M2T file looks good, but the compositor prefers Quicktime as they had difficulties with the originating HDV MPEG Codec.

Paul,
I would consider an investment into a dedicated compressor like Sorenson Squeeze. Quicktime pro also does a nice job, but you'll be limted to exporting quicktime files. Sorenson squeeze will allow you to export high quality AVC(h.264), HD-WM9, and everything else you can think of.

After a lot of testing I've been unable to get Premiere to match the quality of these programs.

Thanks for the advice. I will look into Squeeze.

Don't give a comp artist a quicktime file... or any compressed file for that matter. He would probably prefer a still image sequence to be honest.

All of our flame/inferno artists prefer 16bit sgi sequences.