Exporting Timeline Help

[Eddie Lotter]

[Mark Dalzell] “archive it for later.”

It doesn’t make sense to export for archival purposes. Archive the project file itself and the source clips.

[Mark Dalzell] “Being new to P.P.”

You will find links to many free tutorials in the PremiereProPedia that will quickly show you how things are done in Premiere Pro.

Cheers
Eddie

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Eddie and Mark,

I do this all the time, and it makes sense to me, as we all have different needs and workflows. After completing a wedding and making a DVD or Blu-ray for the client, I like to keep a copy of the finished video in the best quality I can, but I don’t care for the time, tape expense, and wear on camera that an Export to Tape entails (not to mention having to recapture later). Much easier and faster to dump the movie to an external drive for “archiving”.

I use the Matrox RT.X2 hardware with CS3, so I just use Export Movie and write a single AVI clip to an external hard drive. I can Import this movie later and cut parts for demos, export for web or whatever. I have no need for original clips and project data, I just want the movie itself.

For corporate work that may require changes/additions later, then of course saving the project does make sense. Apples and oranges.

Exporting an AVI may not be so simple for you, using CS3 alone. HDV is captured using an .mpeg extension in Premiere. It is basically “raw” HDV video, it has not been transcoded to anything else, but you can’t export directly to the .mpeg file.

There IS a way to export back to “HDV” natively, figured out by a friend over at the Matrox forum. It MAY be that you can rename this file with the .mpeg extension and use it in Premiere, you’d have to test it and see. Here it is, contributed by “Taky” :

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“After I finish editing an HDV project in premiere, I always want to output the exact same mpeg file type that HDV uses. You can’t export in File->Export->Movie, or File-Export->Adobe Media Encoder. there isn’t a settings for the HDV format MPEG-2 file. Now I found out how.

(1) When you are done with your editing on the timeline, no need to do any export. Just connect your HDV camcorder, loaded a blank tape.

(2) From the timeline, hit File->Export->Export to Tape. Hit “Render and Record”

(3) It will take forever to render your output to your camcorder. Go take a nap or watch TV.

(4) It will start recording to your camcorder. You can hit Cancel at that point if you don’t want to export a copy to tape. It will go back to the previous dialog box for “Render and Record”, DON’T hit “Done” before you finish the next step

(5) Go to your “Video Capture” scratch disk location which you specificed under Edit->Preferences->scratch Disks. Locate a file called “HDVExport.hdv2″. Rename this file to .mpeg or mpg.

Now you can cancel the export to tape function. Adobe will try to delete the HDVExport.hdv2 file but you already renamed that file. Premiere also insertd 10 blank seconds in front of the video clip. You can use any lossless mpeg editor (e.g. womble editor) to get trim out that 10 seconds.

That’s it! you will obtain the MPEG file that is the exact HDV format adobe transcoded.”
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I hope you find this helpful

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Mark Dalzell]

Eddie,

Archive the project file itself and the source clips.

So how do I go about this? As I said, I’m new to P.P. I’ve looked in the export area but nothing for “archiving” is listed. What do I use?

Thanks.

Mark

[Eddie Lotter]

[Mark Dalzell] “So how do I go about this?”

Did you try searching for Archiving in the PPro Help? 😉

[Mark Dalzell] “I’m new to P.P.”

You will find links to many free tutorials in the PremiereProPedia that will quickly show you how things are done in Premiere Pro.

Cheers
Eddie

[Mark Dalzell]

Hi Jeff,

Thank you for taking time to help and you in depth description on
how to go about this.

I’ll give it a go.

Best.

Mark Dalzell

[Mark Dalzell]

Jeff,

I don’t have an HD/HDV camera. This was a school film project at CSN. I was given the HDV files on a flash disc, imported them into my laptop and then into my editing suite at home. Edited them in P.P. CS3.

I have a DVX100a but it’s not HD. Is there some other way to do this?

Thanks again.

Mark

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Mark,

This is making more sense now – so you want to be able to “turn in your homework”, is that about right?

Technically, if the source files you used exist on the PC at school, you should be able to just take your Premiere project file to school and point it to those original files when it asks you where they are, and you should be able to open your “edited” version at school.

The cuts and effects you had applied would all be intact. Not sure about titles or any “new” media created during editing, but as far as original clips, you’d be good to go. Is this something that might work for you?

Otherwise, as Eddie pointed out, you can package up the entire project to include all parts to move it to another system

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor

[Mark Dalzell]

Eddie,

I have read the manual re: archiving. I followed the instructions and
used the Project Mgr. and created a “trimmed project”. It turned out
to be 22.6Gb for a 12 min. film.

I thought there was another way to do this so everything would fit on a dual layer DVD. Guess not.

Also, I’m hip to the free tutorials on this site. I use them all the time. Key word here is “time”. I need to get this done now and time is not on my side. Therefore this post asking for those who have done this or know how to do this and could possibly tell me how to go about it.

Thanks anyway.

Mark

[Eddie Lotter]

[Mark Dalzell] “so everything would fit on a dual layer DVD. Guess not.”

DVD is simply too low a capacity medium. Use either blu-ray or external hard-drives for archiving.

Cheers
Eddie