Premeire equivalent of FCP 7 “export to quicktime”

[Ann Bens]

You can export to uncompressed mov.
But you can also export to about any (compressed) format you like.

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[Steve Brame]

I’m guessing that you want export to a Quicktime reference file, which doesn’t create a new video file, but simply references the data on the timeline. We used to do the same in Avid Media Composer, and we used to do the same in Premiere with Advanced Frameserver, a plugin which was developed to give Premiere Pro the ability to do just what you need.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/advancedfs/

Not sure how AFS works in current versions of Premiere Pro. Also not sure if AFS will work on Macs. Probably your only option for not having to encode a full Quicktime will be to abandon iMedia converter and encode directly from the timeline with Adobe Media Encoder.

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[Ivan Myles]

[Steve Brame] “Probably your only option for not having to encode a full Quicktime will be to abandon iMedia converter and encode directly from the timeline with Adobe Media Encoder.”

+1

Unless there are special considerations, the general workflow would be editing the H.264 source footage and then completing the file with one or more of the following options:

– export a 10-bit 422 or 444 intermediate file for further processing (ProRes, DNxHD, AVC-Intra, Cineform)
– create a direct link from After Effects to the Premiere Pro project file; add effects as required and compress with AME
– export a compressed deliverable file using Premiere Pro or Adobe Media Encoder (H.264, MPEG2, etc.)

[Steve Brame]

I think that the OP was looking for a method to not actually have to export anything, but to create a reference or signpost file. The only method to do this within Premiere, unless AFS still works, is to switch encoder to AME.

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[Nathan Bickell]

What I’m looking for is a way to quickly export an uncompressed file. Using “export to quicktime” with final cut pro, the export takes under a minute because no files are being compressed.

Emphasis is on the quick part.

[Tero Ahlfors]

https://blogs.adobe.com/kevinmonahan/2012/10/11/smart-rendering-in-premiere-pro-cs6-6-0-1-and-later/

[Steve Brame]

Still not what the OP is taking about. Avid and FCP can create a ‘reference file’, which looks like a normal Quicktime, but contains absolutely no video or audio, and is generally only a few K in size. Since no new media is being created, creating a 30 minute QT reference file only takes a few seconds. The reference file simply plays the original media on the timeline, complete with effects. As I said, Premiere doesn’t have this capability inherently. You can, however, achieve the same result by encoding directly from Premiere Pro through Adobe Media Encoder. If you absolutely HAVE to use a 3rd party encoder, then you will HAVE to export an intermediate file to be used in that encoder.

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[Tom Laughlin]

Nathan,

I’ve been editing in Premiere for about a year, transitioned from FCP 7. So, what you simply need to do when you export, is create a preset for your exporting. In Final Cut 7, export to QT was like exporting “Same as Source”, this is not an QT Ref file, you want an independent file.

First, find out what you shot in, in my case, for this video, I shot EX1, 35MB/S, 29.97, Progressive, which matched the raw media when I brought it in via MPEG StreamClip or SONY’s Clip Browser, which converts it from MXF to MOV. So, in this case, you are not transcoding, so you simply need to go into QT and open the file, or a raw footage file, and hit Control+I, as you can see in these screen shots, I’m checking the raw footage’s native info.

On the next screenshots, you can see what I did in the Export feature of Premiere to create a template with matched export settings, naming it “Same as Source”, so if I’m ever needing to export this in future, I just use my Same as Source EX1 preset.

Check setting before you export. Everything looks to match the raw footage here…

And export!

I don’t understand why Premiere does not have a same as source type preset already, it’s weird, but oh well.

Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Digital Chop House
Salt Lake City, Utah