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Apply multiple effects and export?
Currently using Premiere 15 (2021). I don’t use more than one effect for a video project too often but I do have some videos I wanted to apply a couple of effects to…
Here has been my process;
1. Import\apply effect (in this case Cinemagrade color adjustment)\Export
2. Import CG adjusted video\apply effect (Digital Anarchy Samurai sharpening)\Export
Done
Now for some reason this is the way I’ve always done it – I think it came about as years ago I applied a few effects at the same time in Premiere and exported and found out later that the videos I did had some spots of stutter & freezing. When I went back to the original and did it this way (one effect\export at a time) it cleared everything up (or at least that’s how I recall it)
So am I working too hard doing it this way? Or does it make sense to separate out these effects this way?
Thanks in advance for any clarifications!
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4 Replies
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There are a couple of Premiere features that might make your life easier:
1. When you export, if you have “Use Previews” checked, Premiere will NOT force a re-render of any rendered sections of your timeline. It will preferentially use any current, already-rendered sections from your scratch disk.
This would let you apply your effects and render them (via the Sequence menu, then Render Effects In to Out [the hotkey is Enter], Render In to Out, or Render Selection) as you choose. What you see in your timeline will be exactly what you’ll get in your output, so you’ll be able to see any render issues immediately while you’re working.
Premiere is also capable of “smart-rendering” certain formats like ProRes. If your preview file format matches your output file format, Premiere will just copy the rendered frames without re-encoding. It’s fast, and there’s no generational quality loss.
Here are the docs:
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/bestpractices-export.html2. The “Render and Replace” feature allows you to select clips on the timeline, render them with any effects you have applied, and replace the clip instance with the rendered media, via right-click or Clip > Render and Replace. (In other words, it’s kind of a more automated version of what you’re already doing.) One big benefit to Render and Replace, though, is that at any time, you can restore the original, unrendered clip and effect stack via right-click or Clip > Restore Unrendered.
Here are the docs:
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/render-replace-effects-compositions.html -
That’s good stuff! Thank you!
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As always, yes to everything Walter said; however my 30 minute Broadcast timelines are loaded down with effects, almost every shot with at least a lumetri color grade, many with Warp Stabilizers, transforms, blurs, Samurai sharpening and Mocha Pro effects and most of the time the timelines render to either mp4 or ProRes in one pass, no issues. You shouldn’t have to pre-render EFX, I wonder what in your workflow is causing the problem?
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Herb thanks for the reply, I did a bit of investigating…
The ones that had the issues were done when I added ‘Neat Video cleaner’ into the mix (it’s a plug-in that reduces ‘noise’ and clean-up the video)…
So Neat video running by itself and exporting no issues at all…
Neat video by itself exporting then later applying another effect and exporting no issues at all…
Neat video + any other effect running at the same time and exporting ‘MAY’ introduce a very small stutter\freeze at some point – did it to not every video but every 2 out of 3…
The videos all had the same frame-rate and resolution so perhaps it was the amount of ‘noise reduction\cleaning’ that was needed that made the error show-up?
At any rate I’ve done a few videos now with multiple effects without ‘Neat video’ plug-in and they all seem to be fine so it seems that was the common denominator.
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