Adobe Premiere Pro exports to many formats that are readable by other applications. Before you export a video file to other video‑editing or special‑effects software, answer the following questions to help you decide which formats will meet your needs:

• Which file formats and compression methods does the other software import? This helps determine which format you will use to export.

• Are you transferring across computer platforms? This may constrain the choice of file formats and compression methods. Consider using high‑quality, cross‑platform codecs, such as QuickTime Motion JPEG A or B, or the Animation codec.

• Are you superimposing the clips over other clips? If so, preserve alpha channel transparency by exporting a format that supports a color depth of 32 bits per pixel (Millions of Colors +), such as Apple Animation, Apple None, or Uncompressed Windows AVI.

• Are you adding special effects or processing the video and audio in other ways? Processing tends to degrade image and sound quality, so it’s usually best to use the highest quality source material possible. If maintaining quality outweighs other considerations (such as limiting file size and data rate), then choose a high‑quality codec, or one that doesn’t use compression at all.

• Do you want to paint on frames? If so, you can export frames as a numbered sequence of individual still‑image files, and edit each file in Photoshop.

• Do you want to use a single frame as a still image? If so, see Export a still image.