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What's the best way to retain the film's grain when exporting on Adobe Premiere? All my exports have the picture looking kind of soft comparing to the original file. I'm exporting using H264 codec. And if possible I'd like to avoid ultra gigantic files.
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2021-10-28, 07:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 2021-10-28, 08:04 PM by X5gb.)
Add Voukoder plug-in encoder as Premiere's built-in H264 encoder is rubbish (as you mention you don't want to export using gigantic pro-res or similar lossless) and export to X264 mp4 (to avoid skipped frames) at CRF-16 (or at worst CRF 18, no need for double pass) using either very slow or slow and changing the remaining parameters of X264 to best/perfect ones listed here in encoding forum. If film is especially grainy you could use Tune:Grain to preserve as much as possible.
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A little info in regards to Prores
Prores 422 HQ is in most cases absolute overkill. It should only be used when you need to color grade. If you need to do extensive color grading and/or vfx work, go with Prores 4444. If you just edit, then Prores 422 is the best option in regards of space and quality for anything like HD or 4K. You can go with Prores 422 LT on SD sources.
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Told him to go with Voukoder as he already mentioned he doesn't want gigantic files, so its his best option.