How to batch edit lots of clips and export each clip individually?

[Angelo Lorenzo]

You could probably do the renaming and in/out setting within Prelude to speed up the process. Once those are imported you can do time remapping, warp stabalizer and so on and then export in Premiere.

There is no terribly good way to do this within any Adobe app.

Alternately, you could attempt to script portions of this workflow in Adobe After Effects but depending on the size of your project and how often you need to do it, the time investment may not be worth it if you don’t know how to script already.

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[Paul Neumann]

So how many clips? How do you want to rename them? Like sequential numbering? Re-numbering? Special names for each one? Do they all get the same effects? I think there’s a very easy and efficient way to do all this within Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder. Need more details.

[Victor Lin]

There are a bunch of clips, like 10+.

They are basically walkthroughs of rooms inside a house.

So:

Living Room
Dining Room
Master Bedroom
etc

Each of these will need to have a stabilizer applied to it, some time changing (we shoot a 60fps and then drop it down to 30fps for smoother motion), and more or less the same color/contrast/exposure/shadow/highlight adjustments.

Then we want to export each one as its own separate clip.

Doing this for photos in Lightroom is a trivial matter due to how well the program is designed with efficiency and batch operations in mind.

[Paul Neumann]

You can put all the clips in a single sequence, highlight them, and apply warp stabilizer to them all at once. So keep that in mind. There’s no way to batch everything you want to do.

Here’s what I’d do:

Mark all your selects in Prelude and copy them to a new folder. (Or you can just import the originals and mark ins and outs as you please.)
Import the selects into a project.
Highlight all the clips in the project pane, right click, modify and change the frame rate.
Highlight a clip and make a sequence from it.
Create an adjustment layer with all your color correction.
Apply warp stabilizer.

Now make a new sequence with each clip, but at this point you’re just pasting a copy of the adjustment layer and adding the warp stabilizer.

Import the project into Adobe Media Encoder and you’ll be able to select each one of those sequences at once for batch export. The exported clips will carry whatever name, if any, you gave the sequences.

[Victor Lin]

Thanks. So it looks like there really is no way to effectively batch a bunch of video files.

That’s an awful lot of copying and pasting (ie. doing the same thing over and over and over again). Ideally you want to take something that is the same between all clips, like applying the same warp stabilizer, applying the same brightness/contrast, and only physically click ONCE to do it all for everything once all the clips are selected.

Lightroom does this easily through its syncing feature.

Even with dragging Warp Stabilizer into a group of clips, you still have to click on each clip afterwards and hit Analyse, Analyse, Analyse, Analyse, etc.

And you have to put each clip into its own sequence, which is highly inefficient. A sequence is really best for a sequence of *clips* (plural). And here I have to create all these one clip “sequences?”

Here’s another question – if Adobe isn’t able to provide this kind of fast efficient workflow that I need, what other software CAN?

I’d imagine lot of people would need this – first that comes to mind is someone who shoots stock footage. He’s got hundreds of video clips and each needs to have the same closing splash screen at the end, plus a watermark applied to the footage. You can’t do this efficiently at all with how Adobe is set up.

[Marc Poirier]

Hi, i know we’re like more than 2 years since your post, but FYI, if you haven’t found a software that would do like lightroom for video, you might take a look at Sony Catalyst Prepare and Edit… might work for you.

cheers!

[Mike Buckhout]

It is possible to combine separate pre-rendered video files programmatically using command-line tools like FFmpeg in OS X or Linux. There may also be some special purpose shareware that does the job too, but none that I am aware of.