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Render to DV/AVI then export???
I used to think Premiere Pro was clever enough to not re-render a project when I exported it to mpg if I’d already rendered it (or pieces of it). That’s clearly not so, and when I asked on a ng someone replied that of course it had to re-render it because it does it **differently** when it’s part of the export.
Does anyone here second that idea, or take issue with it?
I ask because most of my work is with stage productions that are lighted for the audience, not the camera, and I end up doing a lot of color correction in post, which leads to time-consuming renders. Then when I view the “finished” product and catch some glitches, I end up rendering the whole thing again (during the second export).
It would be nice if I knew I wouldn’t lose quality if I rendered (i.e. exported to DV avi), then exported that file (which would not require rendering, of course) the first time. Then if I needed to do minor touchup I could work on that intermediate avi file, leaving most of it untouched and not in need of rendering for the next export.
Thoughts?
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2 Replies
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Hi Vjohn,
When premiere is rendering a color correction (or any other effect) it is rendering it to whatever the project settings dictate. For example, if the project is a 48khz NTSC DV project that is what premiere pro will conform the renders too. Once it is ready to export it must re-encode the 48Khz NTSC DV format video into the MPEG2 format.
Scott
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Thanks, Scott.
I think you’re saying that rendering as a separate step (either render timeline or export to movie), then adding the resulting file to the timeline and selecting it as the workspace and exporting that to mpeg, gives identical results to the one-step process of exporting the original timeline to mpeg. Given that all settings are correct and unchanged, of course.
Reiterating the reason for the more complicated process: it leaves me with a rendered file, and if I need to make small changes to it, a subsequent export of any kind will need to render only the changed areas. Afaik the one-step process cannot be told to preserve an intermediate rendered but not encoded file.
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