Good evening, I am having a problem exporting videos from Adobe Premiere Pro, the frame size is smaller and the quality suffers. Here is my process: I use a Hauppauge 150 tuner which records MPEG files with a frame size of 720x480. I use Premiere Pro to take out the commercials and if I export to an MPEG file with a frame size of 720x480, the file size is gigantic. If I export to my previous frame size of 352x240, the quality suffers, it's not unwatchable, but it's noticeable. How can I keep my quality high without having a huge file size? I am eventually putting the files onto DVD so I don't have a problem with exporting to AVI, but at the risk of sounding stupid, I don't know how I can go about doing this. I use the MainConcept MPEG Pro export plugin and have been using it for so long, I don't know how else to export files.
Instead of using Adobe to edit those mpegs, get VideoRedo. It is the best program that I have seen for editing commercils out of mpegs, and it does not re-encode the files. It isn't free, but it is relatively inexpensive, and your file sizes don't increase. Outputting an .mpeg file as an .avi file is pointless. You aren't going to get better quality from the mpeg, and you will take a quality hit when that .avi is encoded back to a DVD compliant file, for burning.
