Premiere Pro CC 2018 rendering options please?

[Peter Antoinetti]

No one to advice please?

[Jon Doughtie]

If it were me, I’d try setting up the sequence to what I need for my final deliverable. That is, if I need a 1080i 29.97 finished product, that’s the sequence I’d create and work from there.

That’s just me.

System:
Dell Precision T7600 (x2)
Win 7 64-bit
32GB RAM
Adobe CC 2017.1 (as of 8/2017)
256GB SSD system drive
4 internal media drives RAID 5
Typically cutting short form from UHD MP4, HD MP4, and HD P2 MXF.

[Santanu Bhattacharjee]

it is always better to have your sequence to the largest dimension of the various footage you have. you can always deliver to a lower format without losing quality ever. The fps changing during delivery though may cause some problems of sync or frame jumps.

Santanu Productions, Mumbai
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[Peter Antoinetti]

” Jon Doughtie
on Apr 16, 2020
If it were me, I’d try setting up the sequence to what I need for my final deliverable. That is, if I need a 1080i 29.97 finished product, that’s the sequence I’d create and work from there.”

Thank you Jon,
Finished product will be 1080p as well as 4K
So I tested 4 min output on 1080p and 4K timeline setting rendering to 1080p
The result byte size was pretty similar
And I will have 4K timeline setting rendering to 1080p for the time-being and render out to a 4K output later on in a faster pc

[Peter Antoinetti]

“Santanu Bhattacharjee
on Apr 20, 2020
it is always better to have your sequence to the largest dimension of the various footage you have. you can always deliver to a lower format without losing quality ever. The fps changing during delivery though may cause some problems of sync or frame jumps.”

Thank you Santanu,
I have decided to get the sequence to the largest dimension (4K) and will “set the frame size” of 1080p s onto 4K timeline and render out to 1080p initially. Then, without changing anything on the timeline, I’ll render out the same sequence to 4K when I get to a faster pc later on

So I’ll do what you advised I believe.

I appreciate your advice and advising the same as I just did which is a confirmation of my recent decision.
I am happy that yours match what I just did, hopefully

all the best

[Santanu Bhattacharjee]

Through my experience, I generally don’t go by setting sequence to delivery formats. Reasons –

1. These days clients often ask for social media formats. Once I made a piece with lowly resolution and when the client changed his mind to a higher version, I had a lot of rework.

2. If you have bigger dimension footage than your sequence, you gain nothing in terms of system performance, unless you work on proxies.

Santanu Productions, Mumbai
The Swiss Army Knife for All Your Creative Needs

[Santanu Bhattacharjee]

Thanks. And all the best.

“Then, without changing anything on the timeline, I’ll render out the same sequence to 4K when I get to a faster pc later on”

Rendering to a smaller dimension takes more PC power than to the same dimension of the sequence. Since the CPU has to do more number crunching in scaling down the footage and all other ingredients, anti-alias them accordingly, etc…

Therefore, you will observe that rendering to a 4K does in lesser time than lower formats.

Santanu Productions, Mumbai
The Swiss Army Knife for All Your Creative Needs

[Peter Antoinetti]

Santanu Bhattacharjee
on Apr 20, 2020
“Rendering to a smaller dimension takes more PC power than to the same dimension of the sequence. Since the CPU has to do more number crunching in scaling down the footage and all other ingredients, anti-alias them accordingly, etc…”
Therefore, you will observe that rendering to a 4K does in lesser time than lower formats.”

— Very important point, I did not know that. Thank you for that.
— I NOW have another point to decide.

My current laptop, I thought cannot handle 4K output. It actually takes longer to render out to 4K in my 3-4 min rendered test YESTERDAY

I thought I could get 1080p at my laptop (windows i7 8gb ram asus) easier without heating up, then I could have a 4K output at a faster pc later on.

I was wondering why it is taking longer to render out to 4K and heating up to 89C and less time for 1080p output when tested a 3-4 min test output?

any further advice please?

[Peter Antoinetti]

“2. If you have bigger dimension footage than your sequence, you gain nothing in terms of system performance, unless you work on proxies.”

one more thing:

I aim to send this documentary to several festivals. So most ask 1080p and some ask 4K
So I initially need 1080p, amd later on 4K versions

[Santanu Bhattacharjee]

It all depends on the duration of your sequence and how complex the timeline is. If I were to anyway render complex, busy timelines, I would rather render 4K hi-quality once. Later take the rendered 4K output and simply convert to lower resolutions in Adobe media encoder, never come back to premiere.

Santanu Productions, Mumbai
The Swiss Army Knife for All Your Creative Needs