User guide

Chapter 5, Defining Your Adobe Premiere Settings

Performing a Premiere export to disk

Adobe Premiere lets you export video from the Timeline to a single DV/DVCAM

.avi file for purposes such as distribution on CD-ROM and publishing on the web.

Several software codecs are included with Adobe Premiere so that you can export

your video to different formats. Your Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme system adds the

Matrox DV/DVCAM codec to the ones included with Premiere. Because the

Matrox codec uses your RT.X100 Xtreme hardware to accelerate rendering, it

can export video much faster than when you use a software codec.

¦NoteThe Matrox MediaExport plug-in for Adobe Premiere lets you export

your project to various web-optimized and MPEG formats (see Chapter 9, “Using

Matrox MediaExport”). The Matrox Realtime Export to Disk feature lets you

export your project to a Matrox DV/DVCAM .avi file, or an MPEG-2 Elementary

(.m2v) file (see “Performing a Matrox realtime export to disk” on page 65).

°To export your Timeline to a Matrox DV/DVCAM .avi file:

1 Depending on whether you want to export your Timeline or only the current

frame from your Timeline, do one of the following:

$ To export all or part of your Timeline, choose File > Export Timeline >

Movie

. Click the Settings button, and from the File Type list, select

Matrox RT.X.

$ To export only the current frame from your Timeline, choose File > Export

Timeline > Frame

. Click the Settings button, and from the File Type list,

select

Matrox RT.X Single-frame AVI.

2 From the menu at the top of the dialog box, select Video.

3 From the Pixel Aspect Ratio list, select the setting that matches the aspect

ratio of the material you’re editing:

$ D1/DV NTSC (0.9) For NTSC material that uses the standard TV screen

format.

$ D1/DV NTSC Widescreen 16:9 (1.2) For NTSC material that uses the

widescreen 16:9 format.

$ D1/DV PAL (1.067) For PAL material that uses the standard TV screen

format.

$ D1/DV PAL Widescreen 16:9 (1.422) For PAL material that uses the

widescreen 16:9 format.

4 If you’re exporting all or part of your Timeline, it’s recommended that you