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Nightmare rendering problems in Prem CS4
I’m starting out with DV-PAL which I’m doing a 100% crop on, to output to a 640×360 progressive h264 mp4 for streaming on a QuickTime server.
I’ve already found out that Media Encoder can’t make a streaming mp4 h.264, so I’m just trying to make a high quality progressive original that I can put into QT Pro to make the final mp4.
I’ve set up a 640×360 progressive premiere project which I’ve imported the video into, which works fine. My problems come when I try to render or export the project. As soon as I put a title or a jpeg onto the timeline, the project will no longer render and hangs at “0.01% Complete” until I Force Quit (I’m on OS X 10.5)
I’ve tried all different kinds of Video Preview settings in the Sequence Settings. The DV-PAL doesn’t hang, but obviously looks wrong. I’ve trying AIC, JPEG2000, h264, all of which hang the render. Uncompressed doesn’t, but it doesn’t seem to render at all and won’t export.
And as well (probably linked) as not rendering a timeline with titles or images in, Adobe Media Encoder doesn’t manage to export it (presumably it can’t render, but doesn’t tell me).
I’ve got a 400GB free on a render disk, and a 2-disk 500GB raid for other files, with the application itself on another disk, but I don’t think it’s to do with the disk setup.
Anyone got any ideas? I’m really stuck and have spent all day shouting and swearing! I’m tempted to go back to my old Final Cut 5.
Thanks.
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Sorry – should I be in the “Premiere Pro” forum?
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ive never had this one, but if it only happens with titles or jpegs in the timeline, select the in and out points of the clip with the work area bar and render those on their own.. if that works then keep those renders and do the rest of the timeline as a whole. might solve your problem
~Peter Berthet
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Thanks Peter – I eventually found a solution from Adobe: set up a new OS X user, restart with a Safe Boot, then re-install Premiere. It seems to have solved the rendering problem and I can now export to a variety of codecs.
– Paddy -
rockin 🙂 glad it worked out for you
~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia
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