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Scenes Detected Subclips Problem
I need to clean up individual scenes from a bunch of old movies converted to ProRes422. The final product will be the same as the original film, but with clearer sound and a much better appearance.
In FCP7 I would use Scene Detector to automatically set markers for the scene changes, make subclips, and work on the subclips. However, I find Premiere Pro CS6 much easier to work with, and I like the . . . yadda, yadda. Anyway, I much prefer to use Premiere Pro CS6 and not FCP.
After looking all over the place, I cannot figure out how to do this in PP or PP+SpeedGrade. I guess I could manually add markers at each scene change in PP, but there are too many of them to make this practical.
The scene detector in SpeedGrade seems to work quite well and is blazingly fast. Sppedgrade appears to be essentially undocumented, however, and I cannot find any references to exporting the scenes as subclips (or whatever) back to PP.
My short term workaround for the first film is to use FCP7 and Scene Detector to do what I described above, then batch export the subclips as individual .mov files, which I then import into Premier Pro.
This actually works, but jeez Louise, there’s gotta be a better way to do this entirely in CS6.
What am I missing?
TIA
Dave
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Check this out for Speedgrade https://www.fallenempiredigital.com/blog/2012/07/21/creating-dailies-with-adobe-speedgrade-cs6/
Speedgrade has a really vague feature that allows you to rename your output file based on clip name which, in turn, forces Speedgrade to split your output (down near the end of the article). A little experimentation may allow you to split your single original file because Speedgrade is forced to rename the parts.
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Thanks, Lorenzo.
You appear to be with Fallen Empire; I have responded on their blog that when I follow this procedure it results only in an output video file that’s identical to the input file, and also with a “.mov.scenechanges” file.
I need to get separate video files for each scene/clip. Sure hope we can work this out as it’s a PITA to use the FCP7/Scene Detector –> Premiere Pro process. It works, but surely there’s a way to do the whole thing within CS6.
Dave
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How did you respond? We received neither an email or a blog comment? I hope our comments are working; I’ll test later.
In any case, I had hoped the idea was that you would experiment with the name section. If I press “M” and select some metadata, I am able to force a split. Try adding “General>EditNumber” to your output name. Adding that variable forced my single scene detected file into multiple files.
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Angelo LorenzoNeed to encode ProRes on your Windows PC?
Introducing ProRes Helper, an awesome little app that makes it possible
Fallen Empire Digital Production Services – Los Angeles
RED transcoding, on-set DIT, and RED Epic rental services
Fallen Empire – The Blog
A blog dedicated to filmmaking, the RED workflow, and DIT tips and tricks -
Ah, yes, it looks like our blog comments were down for a week thanks to a non-functioning spam filter.
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Angelo LorenzoNeed to encode ProRes on your Windows PC?
Introducing ProRes Helper, an awesome little app that makes it possible
Fallen Empire Digital Production Services – Los Angeles
RED transcoding, on-set DIT, and RED Epic rental services
Fallen Empire – The Blog
A blog dedicated to filmmaking, the RED workflow, and DIT tips and tricks
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