shorten a bunch of clips and batch encode them

[Paul Neumann]

Josh wins! I’ve never had a need to export a batch of clips like this from inside PPro, but to know you can do it from the Project Bin is awesome. Old dog, new trick. Off to play fetch.

[Josh Weiss]

yeah, there should be no real reason to leave premiere to do this! keep it simple.

[Paul Neumann]

We need the ability to make multiple marks on a single clip during ingest in Prelude and a “Send To After Effects” (with metadata in tow) function as well. That would clear all this up.

[Josh Weiss]

couldn’t you just subclip in premiere, then either export or copy and paste into AE?

[Alex Udell]

1) Maybe it’s changed…..but it used to be that you couldn’t batch clips from PPro project panel….hadn’t tested it a while…so it works that’s great. still may not be be the audio answer. you could queue…but I think that was one offs…so when you had many to do, it was a PITA….

2) I just delete whatever extraneous audio I don’t need in the ppro timeline before jumping to AE.

hth,

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Alex Udell]

in cc14.1 you could also use the consolidate transcode function to generate new media sets from the sequence timeline….just specify a destination…that should work.

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Marc Nibor]

Josh, if this would work it would be too good to be true ; )

Now seriously… I’ve never got this to work. Hopefully I am just doing something wrong. Because I work with subclips all the time.

The problem is still… how do I Batch export them?
Here’s what I tried so far.
– import the clips into the project
– create the sub clips and drag them back into the project panel
– rightclick and go export
– HERE comes the problem! If I select more than one clip I lose the ability to select “source range – clip in/out”
– after I click ok in the export window AME opens and if I encode the clips in the list I will get renders of the COMPLETE clip.

So I am really looking forward to your answer – hopefully it’s just a single thing I am missing. This would be indeed a lot simpler then the AE alternative. But I never got it working from inside PP before.

[Josh Weiss]

try opening AME. Then in Premiere Pro, select all of your subclips and drag them onto whatever preset you want to encode with. For instance, if you are working with prores, make an AME preset (must be 2014.1) to do a prores 422, pass through all source settings. Then you can hit the play button in AME to batch encode.

[Marc Nibor]

I’m not sure if I got this right, the drag’n’drop part doesn’t seem to work for me.

– I have PP 8.1.0 and AME 8.1.0 open
– I highlight one ore more clips in the PP project panel
– I drag them on the name of one of the presets inside of the AME Preset browser Panel (the one on the right)
but I can not drop them clips. In fact I cannot drop them anywhere inside of AME.

[Josh Weiss]

Ok, i lied, that only works with sequences. Instead. Select the subclips ALL in premiere pro, then go to file-export-media. Pick your setting, then hit queue and it will send them all to AME.