H.264 PREMIERE PRO 2.0 FULL
Click the image to view it at full resolution.Īnd the result from the Premiere Pro CC export:įurthermore, it’s fair to note that Noam Kroll did the same test once again mainly because he was contacted by Adobe. The first one is a screen grab from FCP X and the second one is from the Premiere Pro export. It is clear that the improved results in the current test were due to the updated version of the Adobe software. Here are two screenshots from an H264 encoded video file from both exports. MOV container this time because during the initial test there were some variations on Media Encoder between H264. Encoding: Best Quality / Use Maximum Render Quality.These were the settings Noam used when he conducted the previous and the current export in Premiere Pro CC and Media Encoder: This time after installing the latest available version of Premiere Pro and Media Encoder he tested the same settings while rendering out directly from Premiere, as well as directly from Media Encoder and surprisingly he had notably improved results both times. It was blocky, over compressed, and even the colors seemed a bit off.
There have been certain settings that have worked really well for me over the years with regards to H.264 compression, but it wasn’t until this year that I noticed a staggering difference in the final quality of the files that I would output from Premiere Pro as opposed to FCP X. This was Noam’s conclusion from the first test: A couple of months ago we covered an interesting test conducted by the US-based filmmaker Noam Kroll that shows different results while exporting H.264 files with the same settings from the Final Cut X and Premiere Pro CC.Albeit the export settings in FCP X and Premiere Pro CC were the same both times, the quality of the Premiere’s output file was visually poorer than the one exported from the Final Cut.įurthermore, after Noam tried to re-export the same H.264 file at 20,000 kbits from Premiere and one at 10,000 kbits from FCP X and when he looked at them after, still the FCP X output had far less compression artefacts than the lightly compressed output file from Adobe Premiere.