Major Export/Encoding Discrepancies Revealed! Must Read…

[Paul Nicholson]

I hope you don’t mind if I paste my question here – you’re talking about ‘settings’ but the end result is a faster export, which is what my question is all about. I can see what is happening in Adobe Media Encoder when it exports my selected Work Area.

My project contains about 150 backing tracks with scrolling onscreen lyrics and guitar chords that I am constantly updating.

History of the issue:
I must have had conflicting sequences in my project due to clicking ‘Import As – Sequence’ when I imported Photoshop layers. This probably led to the project not being able to load because of a conflict. So I created an untitled project and imported the broken project (Import Entire Project did not work so I selected Import Sequence) and the project was restored, thank God.

Issue:
Unfortunately, this trick put the sequence file into the same folder as every other file. This means that every time I export, the encoding runs through every single file in the entire project – irrelevant files that are not related to the Work area, causing a usually 3 minute export to take 3 hours. The exports are all perfect but they are taking forever. My guess is that if the sequence file was OUTSIDE of this folder that contains hundreds of files, it would go back to normal. But if I drag the sequence file out of the ‘everything’ folder, the entire project disappears.

Question:
How do I move the sequence file outside of a folder without losing the project?