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Splitting long .flv video into chunks.
Hello Esteemed Premiere Editors.
Is it just me or something? You would think that Adobe would include it’s own built in utility to natively import and edit .flv videos into Premiere or Flash (CS4), without having to jump through major hoops just to split a large .flv file into say…3 parts, and add a title slug before and and after each part…(Stay tuned for part 2!). As of the moment, I can’t seem to find the perfect way to do this.
My handicap is that I don’t work a whole lot with Flash or Premiere at the moment, although they are beautiful programs and I intend to fully learn their secrets soon.
I have all the original videos as an (H264) and (.MOV):
I work on a Mac and use FCP suite,and Adobe (AfterEffects/MediaEncoder/Photoshop).My problem is this: I need to split about 70 videos (40-50 minutes each) into Youtube friendly “10 minute” chunks. I really don’t want to edit and re-encode the original “master” files.
I would like to simply use the .flv file that I have, and split them up and add a simple title page before and after each video and save these segments as individual video clips, without any recompression. Is this possible?
Could you someone point me in the right direction? I’ve searched the Cow Forums and researched on the “GoogleMachine”, but have found very little. I’ve hit up Adobes site but can’t seem to find the right information or section for this task. I also posted this to the Flash forum as well.
Any response would be greatly appreciated! Thank you all. STU
I know alot….but not as much as the other guy.
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Hello Again! I may have posted prematurely as I have found info from Adobe that indicates I can natively edit flash files in Premiere. So far, I cannot get this to work. I open Premiere, create the correct project and import the .flv file and nothing happens. At the bottom right of the interface it indicates that a “peak file” is being generated and when it’s done the clip doesn’t appear anywhere. I usually edit with FCP so maybe I’m missing something about the way Premiere works. Any suggestions would be greatly welcomed! Thanks.
I know alot….but not as much as the other guy.
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Hello Cow Premiere Forum.
OK, I did some more technical reading on the Adobe site and find what I was looking for regarding splitting .flv files adding title slugs in Premiere.
Since I’ve been editing on FCP for so many years, I sort of forgot about Premiere. I have the current (CS4) for Mac Adobe Suite, use After Effects almost every day but somehow never paid much attention to Premiere. So here’s what I’ve found.
I like Premiere! and the way it handles those .flv files for editing.
The process is simple. With Premiere all you have to do is import the .flv files into a project and drop them into the timeline. Fiddle around with the settings a little, create the title slugs, place them before and after the video and reoutput the video as a .flv. You can’t do this with FCP because it’s not a native editing codec to FCP. Final Cut won’t recognize the file because Apple and Adobe still don’t like to play in the same sandbox.
I would assume that Premiere does not re-compress the original flash video upon re-outputting. If this is wrong, please correct me in this post. Upon rendering for output just use the “output to original settings” option and your done!
I use Adobe stuff and Apple stuff together everyday and for the most part nothing ever goes wrong. Why can’t Apple just face the fact that Flash video is the de-facto standard in the web world because quicktime, although it’s a robust high quality standard as well, it just doesn’t behave the same way on the net. So my advice to both of them would be to bury the hatchet and “share” the code!
Think of your users!The last thought….One of the reason’s I haven’t embraced Premiere has to do with the appearance of the GUI.
It has specifically to do with the Control Icons. They are somewhat confusing to the eye and are hard to instantly find, but practice does help. Other than that, I will definitely keep learning Premiere because it’s an awesome program that’s equal to, and in some ways better than FCP.So there! I think I figured it out! I’m all grown up now! Thanks!
I know alot….but not as much as the other guy.
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