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Batch Compression in Premiere Possible?
I frequently work on projects that involve exporting 10-70 small sequences using Adobe Media Encoder. The only way I know to do this is to export 1 sequence at a time. Is there any way to batch encode these in either Premiere 1.5 or 2? If not in Premiere, is there any third party solution?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
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Craig,
Well, I am on a quest to figure out the same issue that you are coming into. I have to export 30 5-10 minute sequences out of Premiere. The only work around that I figured out (which I am testing right now), is to import your Premiere project into AE7 (I am using Prodution Studio Pro). This will bring in all of your sequences as separate comps. Once they are all in there, just select the comps to export in your project window, and (on a PC) CRTL-SHIFT-/ to send them all the render queue. Comparing the render time between Premiere (Adobe Media Encoder) and AE, Premiere seems to be 2-2.5x faster. This is weak, but otherwise you have to sit and wait to start each one in Premiere.
I hope this helps and if you (or anyone else) know a more efficient way, please let me know.
Peace,
Ryan “Chupacabras” Montrucchio-live each day like a life, not each life like a day…
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Some sort of batch compression may be worth trying.
Create a nested Sequence by combining all the Sequences that contain your clips .
To achieve that when all your clips are in various sequences in the Project bin, select all these sequences and drag them in a new empty sequence that you have previously created on the timeline. This will result in a nested sequence where all the clips are consolidated into a single one.
You may then export this single clip to a compressed file-type of your choice.
If I remember correctly the maximum duration of a sequence in Premiere Pro is 10 hours.
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I should have added that the Cinemacraft Encoder Basic (
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So here’s the update on my exporting 30 separate sequences from Premiere via After Effects 7.
Excellent.
It took a bit longer (2x I guestimate), but it allowed me to export to wmv format for each one at the exact same settings (remember that each use Adobe Media Encoder).
So, just importing MyProject.pproj into an AE7 project, works like a charm.
I hope this helps. And to Andre, I’ll have to take a look at the Cinemacraft Encoder Basic to see what it does. For encoding, I tend to use a OSX Compressor, Sorrenson Squeeze, or time permitting, a Sonic Hardware encoder…
Peace out,
Ryan “Chupacabras” MontrucchioLive each day like a life, not each life like a day…
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