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m2v to m2v..?
Hello,
I think I already know the answer to this one, but I’m not 100% sure:
If I’ve rendered some m2v files out of After Effects, and then bring those files into the Premiere Pro timeline, and then put chapter markers for Encore there and export it to Encore..will I lose quality by encoding twice (making an m2v out of an m2v..a generation loss)? Or is Premiere smart enough to “see” that this file is already done the way it’s supposed to be, so it will only be a straight lossless copy of the file? I keep the exact same encoding settings in Premiere as I did in After Effects (7 mbps CBR), and I don’t add any effects or transitions to the files in the Premiere timeline.
(You may ask why don’t I just bring those files straight into Encore. Good question! It’s because I’m encountering errors in Encore that I can’t solve, and I have such limited time available to troubleshoot it. It’s 70 minutes of heavy motion graphics, and in retrospect I should have invested in more drives so I could have rendered uncompressed from After Effects, and then exported to Encore from Premiere. But done is done, I don’t have time to render everything over again, and now I’m just searching for a workaround.)Kind regards,
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You wont like the workaround either..it is the $500 Main Concept plug-in…it is smart enough not to render again.
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Thanks for your reply,
It looks like I was able to get my m2v files to work in Encore after all (I had imported all my m2v’s as timelines, and got all kinds of end action and orphan timeline errors. By importing as assets and creating new timelines it looks like the DVD is error-free). So I won’t have to use the Premiere-timeline route to Encore. But thanks for the tip on the Main Concept plug-in! It may be a useful thing in the future.
Kind regards,
Eric
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