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What is the secret recipe to exporting composited video
I am absolutely dumbfounded by my latest encounter with Adobe Premier Pro. I have a simple project with two video tracks. I use (0%) opacity to make the top video transparent until it’s time to come in, then it fades to 100% opacity, then after some time it fades back to 0%. This behaves exactly as expected in Preview.
When I go to render it (using Export Media) it appears to be ignoring both the parameters I put into Motion (scaling factors) as well as opacity. It is as if it is trying to render only my top layer of video.
WTF?!
I expect it to do all processing to all video frames, bottom to top, and then treat the final image as the frame to encode.
In the past I’ve used multicamera mode, nesting, flattening, and dissolves to do this. With only a few transitions, I thought I’d save myself some trouble. Does not the most obvious and simple way of working with two video files work anymore?
Update: it seems that what’s screwing me is the “gang source and program” button. Could that really be true? Could it really be that something I use to make monitoring behave in a way that I find rational could actually be causing *rendering* to behave in a completely irrational way?
Manifold Recording
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[Michael Tiemann] “Could it really be that something I use to make monitoring behave in a way that I find rational could actually be causing *rendering* to behave in a completely irrational way?”
Yes. Yes it could.
Ryan Holmes
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[Michael Tiemann] “Could it really be that something I use to make monitoring behave in a way that I find rational could actually be causing *rendering* to behave in a completely irrational way?”
Rational and irrational are kind of relative…
I can’t seem to duplicate this behavior in CC here…maybe more procedural details could help troubleshoot.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Are you absolutely sure that you are using Export Media on the edited sequence, and not on the top clip?
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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Actually, I’m not absolutely sure. I tried a variety of selections and de-selections, and looked very hard at the Sequence menu, hoping to find a menu item like “Rending the f-ing sequence”, to no avail. Nowhere in the main menu did it offer anything like “Render the sequence (for real)” as compared to “Just render whatever is selected and hope that’s what the user expected”. Instead, it’s just “Export media” which says NOTHING at all about what, in fact, the source for the export is.
Manifold Recording
Pittsboro, NC
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As long as your sequence panel is selected, that’s what will render.
Vince Becquiot
San Francisco Bay Area
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