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What is the MOST effective method of export?
As a reasonably new user of Premiere I think I’m in over my head! Any advice is GREATLY appreciated.
I have an edited 65 minute movie that needs to be separated into 2-4 second clips and exported as separate .avi files. I realise that this is effectively the opposite of what Premiere was designed to do, but unfortunately this is the project brief!
What is the least time consuming way to do this? I don’t really want to have to export 1500 times.
Please remember that I’m not too experienced; so my apologies if this is a stupid question. Many thanks in advance for your advice!
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7 Replies
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alas, no.
you basically need to set in and out points and export however many times you need to
~Peter Berthet
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Not welcome news, but thank you.
Any idea if it’s possible with other software? Avid, FCP, etc.?
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A program I use is AVS Media converter. It allows you to convert a number of videos, not just one. You can choose in and out points and gives you lots of options.
I’d consider giving that a try and see if it might work for you.
I’m also pretty sure that the new Premiere CS4 has some sort of Render Queue in it’s new version which might be of help.
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The project trimmer might work for you (Project Manager). Copy your project with trimmed clips (no handles). Premiere will create new individual clips for each clip in your movie, and copy them to a new folder.
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Are you needing to mark in-out at regular consistent intervals? If so, then you may be able to import/Dynamic Link the entire timeline into AE and do some scripting to automate something like this. If you need the in-out points based on content, etc., I think you’re hosed and are doing as the folks above suggested.
I’m sorry I can’t help to write a AE script for this, I’m not very versed with scripting, but this should be possible. There are lots of resources on the web to help with AE scripting. Just search for AE scripting and you’ll find the big sites. Even Adobe hosts a AE scripting forum.
Good luck!
-Troy Murison
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You may be better off exporting as one big AVI file and using a splitting tool to split the AVI files into the two to four second chunks. The only issue is that those are such short clips that they make not split cleanly.
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hi,
i had this exact same problem and found this solution here:—
Place your clips on the timeline (you can do this all at once to save time), and then use Project > Project Manager to Create New Trimmed Project.If your original clips are from DV, and your project is DV, this will create a new file for each clip on the timeline.
Voila! Batch export.
—hope that helps!
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