[Alan Norman]

I am pleased to say I am up to 25 tracks now and although it heavy going do to using the resources for resizing and crop adjustments.

But so far it working ok thankfully.

I have seen some small variations in the clip length but a few small edits has made it VERY usable and sounds great.

I will let you know when it finished and send a link.

Regards

Alan

[Alan Norman]

Thank you for your comments.

So far I have managed to import 18 video clips all on their own timeline.

Then they have to be resized and re positioned and are becoming a fraction of their original size.

The problem is that Premiere will let me import the additional clips and put onto the timeline but now I am getting many crashes.

I have a powerful pc and I am I am running the latest version on Premiere CC 2019 and I am using a fast AMD Ryzen 7 1800 with 32GB of memory and and a 1080Ti video card.

My question is how to reduce computing overheads ?

Many of the incoming clips by musicians are not too big around 100 mb and filmed on mobile phones. As I have made the images so tiny on the screen, I suppose I could easily reduce the video size in a conversation if that would save processing power or perhaps all the cropping and size changes is eating up all the processor power and perhaps the best bet is to import each musicians, crop them to the appropriate size and export and then on re import the pc or software would be doing less work ? What do you think of this.

I guess I could also make numerous sequences and drop one into another but I am not sure what will be better to reduce the load on the PC.

I ask all of this as I have been talked into making a video with a choir of 60 people and frankly I am not sure how to manipulate so many tracks unless I do them in separate sequences and then overlay them say 10 at a time ?

Many thanks

Alan

[Alan Norman]

greg janza – I have been following this post and I too have H264 files that are hard to work with in multi camera.

What is the most efficient way to work with the files to transcode please ?

Regards

Alan

[Alan Norman]

OK solved !

[Alan Norman]

I have just tried saving a WAV file this from CC and the audio from the cameras and the audio from the Tascam audio recorder are out of sync – even though they were in sync at the rendering and being saved stage.

So its an encoding problem.

Could it be due to the Tascam recording at 44.1 and the Video Cameras were at 48 KHZ – not sure if there is any connection that will affect them at the encoding stage ?

Any ideas for a work around please ?

Need some help please.

[Alan Norman]

Thank you Jeff for the reply.

Just in case of any misunderstanding – I am saving to the Hard Disc and not interested in making a DVD in a conventional sense – just a data DVD after export or transfer to memory stick.

The source is 50p and I seem to be confined to 25 frame in HD and cannot get a 50p saving format but I suppose 25 frames is ok.

At the moment I am finding WMV at a bit rate of 10 (max that I can get ) is quite good quality but I want even higher quality in the export to my Hard disk. This makes a files of just under 6 gig on the hard disk and look ok but not stunning

I am making a DVD just for Data from my HD so anything up to 8.5GB. It’s too big to go onto a 4.7gig DVD to get the quality I need..

So I tried some other ones and I though that H,264 would be great but it’s proving tricky and the pc crashes after 60 minutes.

It is making part of the video but with separate audio file but perhaps this is due to not finishing the complete export (it makes M4V and aac files)

So what is the possible alternatives to get a great high res export to the Hard Disc and up to about 7.5 gig without the PC crashing ?.

Am I trying to push this too hard for my system ?

Does someone know about export settings that might be more comfortable and also get the best quality perhaps from some projects they have experienced please ?

I will look at your suggestion of a new sequence but the KEY QUESTION is this.

What is the best output format to export this project of 50p onto the Hard Disc with a maximum file size of just below 8 gig lets say, but NOT in WMV and in 1920 HD either 50 frames or at worse 25 frames.

Apologies if the way I wrote my question caused any confusion.

Regards,

Alan

[Alan Norman]

Many of the tips worked and the 720 did fit to scale thanks very much…..but

Well almost given up as too much data for the single disk and then a friend suggested a dual layer DVD so will try this next.

BTW, Encore performing strangely at the moment (slow and unresponsive on occasions and then freezes)

Do reinstall do I need to de activate it 1st along with premiere or can I do a new install perhaps by uninstalling Encore on its own then re installing?

All files are backed up already?

Regards,

Alan

[Alan Norman]

Hi Jeff, no luck tonight.

Exported 14 songs in MPEG-DVD @7mbs with scale to fill and PAL DV widescreen.

So ended up with the video and wav file separately and imported both into Encore – 8 songs total time on timeline is 43:11 and with moving menus I cannot get the rest of the material on the disk.

So do I lower the date rate for the exports as Encore NOW does automatically compress the video stream during transcode and it say Do Not transcode.

Need to get about 70 minutes on the disc.

So is it the export size that’s too big

Video files equal 3.7gb plus wav and plus moving menus.

Under the timelines menu, it read that my 43:41 is 2.32 Gig.

The moving menus appear to add up to a further 2.257 gig so stated storage required is 4.577 gig

Under the Build menu I see it saying that 4.61 used.

So it seems as I do not have any auto transpose to compress the songs down a little, I will need to re export at say 5mbs.

Would that sound about right please?

By the way, MANY THANKS for the kind advice received so far – MUCH APPRECIATED.

Regards

Alan

[Alan Norman]

Thanks Jeff, I will try this format this evening and let you know. Pleased to learn about the scale to fit option as that is my main gripe.

Thanks

Alan

[Alan Norman]

Hi Jeff and Gary

The length of each volume is about 70 minutes.

The odd issue is that I am trying to export at 8 mbs stream in mpeg2 at 1920 and it will import into encore all tracks but, only 6 or 7 will transpose ? Why some and nor others? I have remade the video export with small tweaks such as vbr1 or 7 mbs but just cannot get these final songs to transpose. I hear what you say about the did blue ray and yes I can produce them in 720 instead but lose some of the quality.

HELP !

So do I have to give in and produce everything in 720. Perhaps it will also export in a smaller file size too.