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Let me conclude this section of the tutorial on your various export options when exporting your projects out of Premier Pro CS3 with a review of some of the highlights of the different settings here in the Export settings and Audio codec and Video codec tabs here to the right in the Export Settings dialog of the Adobe Media Encoder. Starting with Adobe Flash Video, the most important setting here is the video codec. This is a unique codec to Flash Video. On to VP6 is the one you want to use. It's far superior to the older Sorenson Spark codec. You also have a bit-rate slider for setting your bit-rate settings, as well as setting your keyframe distances. Generally the more motion you have the closer your keyframes should be. On the audio tab the important setting here is the bit-rate default in 16 or 32. I generally start up higher than that, about 128 and then I keep going down until the audio quality is no longer acceptable. I generally go with mono to save 50 percent of the size of that audio file. Next the unique settings for the Quick Time format here on the Video tab include the video codec, the H.264 Encoder is generally considered the best one to use, but there are quite a few here, so experiment with the results, but I think you'll find this is the best one. You have a Quality setting, as well as Frame Width and Height. You also have a Frame Rate setting, and a Field Order. You'll want to set this to None Progressive if you're exporting or playing back on a computer monitor. You also have bit-rate settings down below here for the maximum bit-rate as well as Set Keyframe Distance. On the Audio tab, the unique setting here is the AAC Audio codec. This is a high-quality encoding format supported by many mobile devices. This codec is the default for the H.264 format. It's generally better than MP3, although it's not as compatible for many players as MP3 is so you'll want to be careful about who your audience will be if you choose AAC, but that's a good one. You also have Output Channels, mono and stereo, as well as a frequency setting here. Forty-eight kilohertz, which is DVD quality, down to 11.025, which is generally considered acceptable for voice. Forty-four is CD quality, about 2205 is about FM radio quality. Next we get to the Real Media format. Unique settings here include the codecs, Real Video 98 and G2. A unique setting here is this Video Content. You can choose whether your video content is smooth, it has a lot of motion video, so you want to choose smoothest. Normal motion, Sharp Image Quality, or, if you have a slideshow, in the Audio tab you have Audio Content, Music, or Voice. Voice codec, and quite a number of options here at different kilobit settings. Again, I generally start at about 128, 132, something in there and then moved down until the quality is no longer acceptable, then I go back to the last one that was acceptable. Voice codec is different, and so you can separate the voice and the music. Next we have Windows Media, which perhaps has the most settings of all of the four here that I have in my format drop-down. The most interesting setting here is the Encoding Passes. You can make one or two passes when encoding. Generally, two passes is considered superior, although it does take longer to encode. If you choose the one option you can choose a constant bit-rate mode, or a variable quality. For the twp option you have Constant, Variable, Constrained, or Variable Unconstrained; generally I keep mine at that setting there. Two passes Variable Unconstrained, although this will take the longest to encode. I generally get best results with that setting. Audio Format is 48 kilobits, 64, 96, 128, and all the way up to 192 kilobits per second, 48 kilohertz sampling rate, which is, again, DVD quality. So there you have a quick overview of some of the personal experiences that I've had with the Adobe Media Encoder, plus some information that I got from the Adobe Premier Pro CS3 documentation. You'll want to check out that documentation for more details on all the various settings that you have available, including those on these other tabs that I did not cover. And so that will wrap up this very important section of the tutorial on exporting your movies out of Premier Pro CS3. In this section you've learned about Export formats, you had a movie on understanding Compression, and as well another one on Video Compression Tips. You've learned about HD video, how to export to DVD, how to export to Flash and to Videotape. You've also gotten a good review of the various export movie settings, and you've had two movies on the various settings here in the Adobe Media Encoder.