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automating renders
Hi all,
here’s my situation :
I have about 30 hdv clips. I need only excerpts of each clip, so I trimmed them all on a single timeline in Premiere, which I copy/pasted into AE. I now have a composition in AE, containing all my trimmed clips. I applied effects to all clips together using an adjustment layer at the top.Now I’m ready to render. Problem is I have all 30 clips as one composition and I want to render each clip by it’s own.
Is there any method to do this automaticaly, or maybe a script?
Or a better workflow to begin with?
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[I have to say that AE has been handling the hdv mpeg remarkebly well, other than the slow import and render times. I know that I have to start using intermediate uncompressed files, but lets just say that for this specific deadline I’m sticking with hdv as I don’t have the diskspace or the raid hardware]
Rendering each clip individualy from premiere, and then copy/pasting the adjustment layer 30 times to each comp, does not seem to me simpler or quicker than my current workflow, in which I can always duplicate the main composition 30 times, and then trim each duplicate composition according to the in and out point of one of the layers and delete all the other layers. More importantly, it involves an additional lossy render betwenn PP and AE.
I was hoping there is a way to automate this, so as not to wear out my I,B,O,N keys on my keyboard and erode my sanity…
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I agree that while not optimal AE handles HDV fairly well if not punishingly slow. In your situation, I’d render the whole thing out as a single movie then deal with it later. When you import it back into your editor line it up with the sequence you created & chop it up accordingly. Don’t know Premeire too well but in FCP or Avid you’d subclip it.
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Thanks you guys for your input.
I don’t know enough about scripting in AE, but the process of duplicating/trimming the compositions looks to me like something that could be automated.
Maybe I’ll get around to trying my hand at a script after this crazy deadline is over…
cheers
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Hi Jonathan,
I also would probably render the whole thing and make subclips in Premier. However if you still want to have your movies separate, another option would be to make note of where each clip begins and ends
(00:00:10 – 01:10:12).
Then in the render settings, click on “custom” near start, end, duration, and put those values in. Of course you’ll have to do that for each comp in the render cue, but you can do it if you prefer to work that way.
Good Luck,
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Selecting the layer and pressing CTRL-ALT-B replaces the I,B,O,N routine.
or check: https://www.aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=51&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=render+compositioncya,
Jan
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hey jonathan,
Jeff Almasol from Adobe wrote a script to do just that, you can get the script from his redefinery site:
https://www.redefinery.com/ae/view.php?item=rd_RenderLayers
-Lloyd
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thanks so very much.
Is there a keyboard shortcut for “trim comp to work area” also? -
dont think there is a shortcut for that, but i believe Jeff’s script will take care of that for you..
-Lloyd
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