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Premiere Enhancements (Batch, Preview)
My recent projects using Premiere have involved editing several smaller video files and rendering them out.
Premiere is a much better editing enviroment than After Effects for these projects, since they are more about editing than effects. However there are a few issues i’m experiencing in Premiere that make it near unusable for this type of work:
-No Batch Render: I really need to be able to do all my edits, then queue up 10 or so projects and go about my business, AE can do this either with a render queue or with watch folders over a network, but I cannot find the same functionality in premiere pro. I tried to import the PP projects into AE, but it does not support all of the edits in premiere.
-No Background preview: Another feature that is in available (with the nucleo plugin for AE), is the ability to background preview. Sometimes i’m overlaying 4 pieces of video, at this point the throughput needed is too great and i can’t preview it, without waiting for a manual preview.
Just wondering if anyone else has a workflow for these types of projects that they can share.
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Well, in theory, you could just import the project in AE and as long as each video has its own sequence, they will become compositions that can be batch rendered in AE.
The other option right now is a fairely crude but usable plugin:
https://www.homedvd.ca/contact/software/premiere_pro_batch_export/
It will only export using “export movie”, not Adobe Media Encoder. It uses the last selected setting to export.
Vince
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wow, just wow, How is it even possible to not have a batch render? I assumed that it was in there and i was just missing it.
AE just does not work for this, it does not interpret titles at all, and it does not translate some of the other edits in premiere, it’s just not the same movie in AE, and AE is, well, better at effects than editing.
The plugin seems useful, but my final output is H264 and i’m not sure if windows PP can do that from Export Movie, i’ll have to see…
If not, maybe there is something in the SDK that will save me =(
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Apparently they’ve added export to Adobe Media Encoder now:
https://www.homedvd.ca/contact/software/premiere_pro_batch_export/
# It will then proceed to either Export Movie (Alt+FEM) or Export Adobe Media Encoder (Alt+FEE) depending on user settings
# If Adobe Media Encoder was selected, it will hit the Enter key accepting current settings, and wait for the Save File dialog to appear -
Ah – but the catch seems to be that it only renders the FIRST / or selected time line in each project – not multiple time lines in the same project. Darn.
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Premiere 6.5’s best feature was the batch rendering. You could import files such as AVIs or you could import projects. Thus you could render your web or dvd files from your projects, without having to first export to AVI or some uncompressed format.
Granted, with CS3 and a fast processor, rendering with Media Encoder is much faster, but it would be good to render one sequence and work on another.
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I agree and would also like to see a batch export within premiere. Selecting the sequences you want to export and then export. Edius has it but it soesnt have flv.
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