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Fastest Exporting from CS5?
Hi guys,
I’m going to filming my brother’s wedding next week and they want me to do a same day edit for viewing at the dinner banquet at night. The editing shouldn’t take me more than two hours but I’m concerned about the exporting time with Media Encoder.I am using CS5 and the footage will be filmed in 1080p 30fps MTS and 1080p 30ps H.264.
My question is, what is the fastest possible way to export the finished edit to a viewable video file. It doesn’t have to stay in HD format, quality is not too important for the same day edit as I will fix that later. What settings should I use? The video should be more than 5mins long, so would exporting with no compression be the best solution?
thanks
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3 Replies
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It depends on how you’re planning on playing this video file later in the evening. Off a laptop connected to a projector? Using a stand alone DVD player?
I bet a H.264 file exported and played off your laptop will do the trick. You won’t have to waste time burning a DVD, and you can keep it HD using Quicktime for playback. Just test it and make sure that your laptop can handle the playback smoothly. Don’t use an old, underpowered laptop with a slow hard drive.
Mike
Intel i7-930 2.8GHz
12 GB RAM
1 GB VRAM
Adobe CS 5 -
Whatever method you decide to use, test well in advance – and that includes all of the equipment that you will be using for playback. Your a** will be on-the-line in front of all of those people with high expectations. Since you are shooting in HD, test the amount of time it takes to render and burn a BluRay disc – that is if you have a video projector capable of at least 720p. If not, consider h.264 in an HD setting played back from a very capable (and tested) laptop. Newer laptops have HDMI out as well as many rental HD projectors. Good Luck!
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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thanks for the response guys. I don’t intend on burning it onto a dvd. I think they’ll just use a projector, so any computer file will be fine. I’ll definitely be testing all week. H.264 still requires a long time for me to export.
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