[Dave Michaels]

Thats Helpful. Thanks. I’ll try it monday when I’m back at work.

I was also reading up on a feature called scale to frame size that may be of some help too.

[Dave Michaels]

Let me try clear up why I need to resize the videos.

The capture software I use captures a window at its current size so if I start recording (desktop capture) a video tutorial for our Desktop Application then stop and during the day change the browser window size as I view other pages and go back to recording another part of the video later …the browser window size will not match the size it was earlier in the day no matter how close I visually try to get it so my next capture session will result in a video that’s a different size than the one I captured earlier.

So what’s the easiest way to make sure my source clips all end up the same size on screen when joined?

1. Is there a way to globally set a default so all my imported videos end up the same?

2. If no to #1 is there a way to maybe click on a source clip (or multiple clips) in the source videos panel and apply a resize tool that lets me actually select a video size or enter a custom size before the clip(s) are dragged into the sequence timeline?

3. If no to #1 and #2 is there another way to crop them so they all end up the same size on screen? Maybe dragging a source clip into the source monitor and applying a size change using a crop tool or something like that?

BTW-
I did watch a CS6 PP tutorial on resizing by dragging the crop efx into the sequence timeline or sequence monitor to change video size percentage in effects control. That doesn’t help in this instance because changing percentage size won’t ensure exact size uniformity for all source clips.

Whatever you suggest I’ll try…or there are multiple methods i’ll try em all and see what works best for me!

Thanks

[Dave Michaels]

Found the problem. The reason for the slow export/render was I had checked the Render Max Quality button. I unchecked it and rendered the 2m26sec 1080×720 edited sequence in about 1m30sec. With the Render max quality button checked it took 20mins for the same sequence. I don’t need max quality for desktop capture/video tutorials and it still looks great even with normal quality.

BTW…capturing the desktop is not done in x264. It’s done with camstudio using the camstudio lossless codec. Don’t think I mentioned that above. I do have another CS6 question but it’s completely different issue so I’m going to start a new topic.

Thanks for the assist on this one.

[Dave Michaels]

Thanks for the fast reply. I’m a bit dis-illusioned though. I figured a quad core Devils Canyon at 3.6ghz/4turbo and 8gb of ram would chew away at most encoding jobs pretty quickly.

Both Avidemux and Handbrake chew up and spit out the same X264 encode/recode job on this system in under a minute which is why I’m confused as to why professional software like Premiere would be so slow given the same x264 codec. I wish avid was more stable because it’s fine for what I’m doing but it crashes too much and does weird things sometimes.

Ok…so …if Premiere is going to encode slowly to X264…what codec would you recommend using for export that would render my edits much faster? Then I can re-code that output in handbrake at mega speed.