Batch Exporting Sub Clips?

[Deleted User]

Hello Chris,

That feature is not available in Premiere pro. You can like you said only slect a clip at a time. The only other work around would be to slect each subclip and send that to the Adobe Media Encoder and repeat the process. You will then see a list of all the clips in Adobe Media Encoder this way you can batch export.

That’s one of the reaosns I moved to Avid Media Composer, the exact requirement that you want and require in Adobe coming form Final Cut Pro.

Hope that helps.

Leo

[Ann Bens]

I would nest each subclip making a new sequence.
In the Media Encoder you can import multiple Premiere Pro Sequences.

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[Alex Udell]

+1 to Ann’s suggestion…

Alex

[Paul Whishaw]

I find the lack of this function to be absolutely stunning. If I made 100 sub clips and then had to create 100 sequences just to batch them, which it appears I may have to do, I’d be upset.

And I am.

Paul Whishaw
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[Alis Blomberg]

There is, sadly, no way to multi-select clips and export; I’ve tried everything. Perhaps CS6 has it, but my CS5 certainly does not.

There is a way to batch subclips and export them without locking up Premiere Pro for each one, but the preparation can be tedious. This is best for cases where you have several long subclips that will take a long time to export for each. Here’s how it’s done:

1. Open Adobe’s standalone Media Encoder.
2. Back in Premiere Pro, click on the subclip you want to export.
3. Tap ctrl+M (Export > Media).
4. Click on the “Queue” button and this will place a “proxy sequence” on the list in Media Encoder.
5. Repeat steps 3 & 4 for each subclip.
6. They will either auto-convert or you will have to go to ME and click on “Start Encoding.”
7. Then… you’ll want to go back and Replace Footage with the new clips, making the process doubly tedious.

Additional Tips:

• Be sure to set up Media Encoder output location, so you know where your exports are going BEFORE you start this process. Hunting them down later is highly inefficient.
• Keep in mind that this export will NOT retain any of the settings you made to the individual clip on the sequence line. If you want to do that, you’ll have to turn each clip into it’s own sequence. In this case, your time is spent converting each clip to it’s own sequence, BUT the benefit of choosing this method is that once you’re done making them all sequences, you have to click “Add” in Media Encoder only once, then multi-select the sequences from the Adobe Project file.
• What if you’re creating a clip library, so you don’t have to cut clips out from videos every time? If you don’t need to share the project file with someone else and you have no intention of deleting the original file to free up hard drive space (as in cases where you only used one part of a video this time, but you know you might use other parts in the future, or in the case where you’re making a music video from your favorite film and naturally don’t want to delete the video you love!), it would be silly to export each clip separately, since you’re actually absorbing MORE space on your drive that way.

  In these cases, it might be better to store the clip settings for each in an adobe project file, one for each (or for each set of the same sort of footage, like the same butterfly flying from two different angles). It’s very easy to import project clips using Import > select file > entire project (captures your clips & original footage, not just sequences). Once you’ve imported, here’s what you do:

  1. Drag and drop the subclips you want out of the subfolder that was created
  2. Delete the folder (including the original video file the clips you dragged out were created from, which is also in that folder) and bam, you’re gtg.

  As long as you don’t move the imported project file & video the clip is taken from, the link to the core file will be easily retained by premiere pro.

I hope someone finds this useful!

-Alis

[Ari Kuchar]

Hey guys, best way to go about this is to create all your subclips as per normal an then save and close the project. Then open After Effects and import the project and you can now batch export the clips into the Render Queue. Make sure you have already set up a default destination and export settings to ease up this step of the process.

This seems to be the best option as I tried exporting XMLs to both FCP7 and FCPx and both NLEs suffered issues, although I am working with MXF files from a C300. Other more conventional formats may work with the XML route.

Good luck!

[Mark Hanson]

FYI.

Not that this will help your project now. But you can take SubClips and or Merged Clips in Adobe CS6 – select them in your project bin then simply drag and drop them on Adobe Media Encoder…easy as that.

[John Dobrich]

I was so excited to find this only to have my hopes squashed. I’m using CC and the feature no longer works or the instructions are missing vital information.