Export FLV file from Premiere

This movie has Premiere unnumbered markers inserted on the timeline, which can be used as cuepoints in Flash.

• Directions for inserting cuepoints

Open the Adobe Media Encoder

1. Select the timeline in the Premiere movie you want to export
2. Move the timeline marker to the beginning of the movie
3. Click File>Export>Adobe Media Encoder to open the Encoder window -- your video should appear at the left
4. You can crop the video using the crop tool at the top of the window
5. Output Tab lets you check deinterlace video footage, which may make it easier to apply high-quality effects in other programs.

Configure the Encoder

Export Settings

1. Format Dropdown: Select Adobe Flash Video
2. Range:
   • To export entire movie, select Entire Sequence
   • To export work area marked by beginning & ending markers in the Timeline, select Work Area
3. Preset: The default (for broadband) is NTSC Source to 256kps -- higher quality settings are available, but you should check FLV size before choosing them.
4. Export Video and Export Audio checkboxes should be checked if you want to export both audio & video

Video settings

1. Video Codec:
   • On2 VP6 is for Flash 8 or 9 & ActionScript 3
   • Sorensen Spark is for Flash 7 and earlier & doesn't work with ActionScript 3
2. Basic Video Settings
   • Encode Alpha Channel lets you use the movie as a layer in a Flash FLA file
   • Frame Width & Height - if you want to reduce the dimensions of the exported movie, type in 160 x 120 here - not a good idea to increase dimensions
   • Frame Rate 29.97 is from project setting. -- if your movie is too large, you can reduce it to 15 fps, which drops every second frame and may make movie jerky
3. Bitrate Settings
   • Specifies the number of megabits per second of playback for the encoded file -leave as is the first time
   • This codec achieves a constant or fixed bitrate, which means that frames that contain more complex data are compressed more and less complex ones are compressed less
   • Constant bitrates are less demanding on the processor and are more reliable for the web
   • Lower data rates result in smaller file size but probably are not as smooth
4. Advanced Settings - Set Key Frame Distance
   • Key frames ensure that the video frame is completely refreshed every so many frames (which you specify)
   • If you created markers in Premiere Pro, Flash creates a keyframe at the marker location to be used as a cue point.

Filters

1. If you exported video has a lot of noise, you can use the Noise Reduction Filter on this tab to reduce the noise, but you don't have to set it the first time you export the video

Audio Settings tab

1. Audio Codec is automatically selected for Flash
2. Basic Audio Settings: -- You can try both and see the effects on sound quality and file size
   • Mono exports sound in one track, makes movie smaller
   • Stereo uses 2 tracks, makes movie bigger.
3. Bitrate Settings -- 32 kbps is default, but can be set down to 16 to make file smaller -- experiment with both settings and sound quality.

When all the settings are configured, click OK to export the FLV file

cuepoints.FLV explanations

1. Movie has 4 titles to set expectations about the movie, one at the beginning, one at the end and two that introduce sections of movie
2. The opening rose movie has no effects
3. The beach scene fades in and the boypool movie fades in on top of it.
4. The beach scene has motion, opacity, and solarize effects
5. The boypool movie is exported from Photoshop as an AVI file.
   1. The video was placed in one layer, a title was added, and a gradient layer was placed over it in Photoshop.
   2. In this movie the boypool clip has a color emboss video effect and opacity effects applied to it.
6. The dinosaur photo has
   1. motion effects that pan through the image.
   2. gamma correction to lighten the colors
   3. a solarize video effect to reverse the colors
   4. unsharp mask effect to make it sharper.
7. Dogs bark when the dinosaur title plays to set up some suspense.
8. The last section is a combination of two clips,
   1. a semitransparent explosion video over
   2. a clip with a car driving on the coast highway.
   3. A storm sound effect introduces it a
   4. a laughing sound ends it.
9. Markers were added to the file in the timeline before it was exported.
10. The video was exported from Premiere as an FLV file with the above setttings. The FLV file is 1.6 MB in size and runs 48 seconds
11. The FLV file was imported into an FLA file, the skin was added, and it was compressed as a SWF file and added to this page.
12. The markers are visible as cue points when you look at the FLV file in the Components effect window in Flash.

 

Tips from Flash for creating FLV for the Web

1. Don't compress the video in other encoders first because it can introduce artifacts and noise
2. Avoid "transitions" between video clips because they don't render well and are not smooth
3. Use lower data rates and shorter clips to make it easier for users to download video
4. Use the appropriate frame rate for the type of video content
5. Select the frame size that suits the data rate and frame aspect ratio -- Premiere supplies approriate presets that you can use:
   

   Modem NTSC 4 x 3

   162 x 120

   Modem PAL 4 x 3

   160 x 120

   T1/DSL/cable NTSC 4 x 3

   648 x 480

   T1/DSL/cable PAL 4 x 3

   768 x 576

6. Streaming video works the best
7. Remove noise and interlacing
8. Ensure the audio is of high quality at the start