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“use preview files” export question
Greetings Folks,
I completely rendered my timeline (green bar all along the top). Sequence is under 2 mins.
When I export, I select “Match Sequence Settings” and “Use Preview Files.”
But it still takes several minutes to export. If the whole thing is rendered, and I’m using the preview files with export settings identical to my timeline settings… shouldn’t it just be gluing preview files together and therefore exporting at lightning speed? I want to make sure it’s not re-encoding somehow.
THANKS!!!!
Tom
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Hi Tom,
Mac or PC? Processor? Source material? What are you exporting to – H.264? MPEG-2?
Even if using previews, AME still needs to convert your video to whatever format you are going to, it is never instant.
Jeff Pulera
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Don’t use match sequence and dont use Previews.
With match sequece settings you can end up with the wrong codec settings like just I-frames mpeg. This settings is only use full for DV.
Preview files are of low quality. They are for preview.
If you just want a quick output for say testing its a good option, but otherwise dont use them. Use a preset and Max Render Quality.———————————————–
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I just don’t understand why it would need to do any converting at all if the source format is identical to the export format and there aren’t any filters or anything? Shouldn’t it just be gluing the files together?
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Thanks for the response Ann!
When I do “Match Sequence Settings” it does seem to pull up the precise settings from the sequence which I created. (In this case ProRes 422 1080p.) And it exports just fine.
The problem with the export is that it’s not using the preview files. The settings for the preview files (in the sequence settings) are the exact same as the export settings. In theory, the exporter should use these preview files with no need to recompress.
The reason why I’m doing all this in the first place is because I’ve got a lot of embedding AE compositions on the timeline. It takes a while to render them on the timeline so I can properly do my edit. It’s a huge pain to have to RE-render them when I export…
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