[Gertret]

Hi marcbrak, I’m not choosing to shoot in Mpeg2 for the simple reason that the Sony HC3 Camcorder shoots in that format natively (Mpeg2 1080 60i) so when choosing within Premiere’s Media Encoder settings I set the video options to match this format so there’s no reencoding. Choosing the DV AVI format as you suggest would in fact mean reencode to a format different to the source and therefore would mean quality loss.

[Gertret]

Hi Vincent, let me state as clearly as possible what I’m trying to do. It’s a very basic operation. I have this 39min Mpeg2 HD video I captured with Premiere from my HC3 camcorder. I want to cut certain clips from this video and create a new “cut” video that is 34minutes (so I delete 5min of clips). I do not want to touch the format at all, so no encoding necessary. This should not take too long, as there’s no encoding to a different format. I’ve done this with Pegasys TmpgEnc Mpeg2 Editor in about 20min, but using Premiere the way I described in my previous post it takes more than 7 hours,so I reckoned that I’m not doing it the most efficient way. So my question is, what is the best way to do this using Premiere Pro CS3 in about the same time (or less) than what Tmpgenc spends? Thanks.

[Gertret]

Vincent, the way I did it is:
1) Set the In and Out point in the Source Monitor
2) Drag the resulting clip to the Timeline Sequence
3) Set the next In and Out point in the Source Monitor and again drag it to the Timeline Sequence
So repeating this procedure I have 15 clips one after the other joined in the Timeline Sequence. If I do what you suggest I get the original uncut video, not the trimmed one. So now, having the timeline sequence, how do I convert it to the trimmed video? Thanks.