[Jeff Pulera]

Also, try QuickTime > Animation codec at 32-bit setting for export with alpha, that has worked for me

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Errol,

Do you have the Warp Stabilizer applied to multiple clips? My understanding is that it can cause the project size to rapidly bloat. My fix has been to export those clips, and replace stabilized clips with the new copies in the sequence.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Milad,

You are correct that H.264 is better than MPEG-2 – it is a more efficient codec, therefore you can use less than 25mbps with H.264 and equal the quality of the HDV Long-GOP MPEG-2 at 25mbps. You may wish to render as 1920×1080 rather than anamorphic 1440×1080 size.

For screenings, see if they will accept Blu-ray. Otherwise, H.264 might be an option for computer playback if you create an .mp4 file, and you may be able to use a lower datarate such as 15 or 20. You could even try a YouTube or Vimeo preset and see how that looks if file size is a major concern.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Tim,

I always appreciate your expertise in these matters. Can I ask you to please clarify further? If NOT doing any Ken Burns zoom/pan business, let’s say just putting a 1080 clip into a 720p sequence, or NTSC for that matter, just filling the frame and nothing more, is “Scale to Frame” then visually any worse than manually resizing with Motion effect?

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Scott,

I should mention that unless you are getting choppy playback, there is no need to render parts of the timeline. I don’t know what kind of Mac you work on, but if you add effects and get a yellow bar above the clip, that just means that Premiere will attempt to playback using the Mercury Engine, does not mean it needs a render. And even if it turns red, might still play back smooth enough to avoid a render. Depends on the effect and system performance.

When doing your final export using Media Encoder, it will render what needs rendering. There is a checkbox to “Use Render Previews”, but if you do that it is still re-rendering those pre-rendered clips, adding more compression, so best to leave unchecked and transcode from original clips direct to the export format.

I have very limited Mac/FCP experience from a few years back, but I recall that even adding simple effects or titles required a render. Not so with CS6, so you might need to realign the thought process a little.

Here’s some more info on rendering – https://blogs.adobe.com/premierepro/2011/02/red-yellow-and-green-render-bars.html

Thank you and welcome to Premiere!

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Milad,

23 hours is very long for an i7 – I can only wonder if the MB Looks are adding a large amount of processing time? I have an older Core i7-2600 and H.264 exports from HDV don’t take much longer than realtime, maybe up to 1.5x at most.

Sounds like you wish to have a high-quality “master” for archival purposes, right? Are you on Mac or PC? For PC, use an .avi codec such as Lagarith, UT, or Avid DNxHD. All are free and produce a “lossless” quality. From this “Master” file, you can later export to any other format as needed.

H.264 is highly compressed, then if you want to export to another compressed format, it is getting recompressed, so not the best mastering format.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

This suggestion comes from Matrox for users of the MXO2 hardware with CS6, maybe it will help you?

…on a system that has an NVIDIA display card, use your display card’s control panel to set the dynamic range for video to full. In the NVIDIA Control Panel under Video, select Adjust video color settings. In the displayed dialog box, select With the NVIDIA settings, click the Advanced tab, and from the
Dynamic range list, select Full (0-255)

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[Jeff Pulera]

If you want to insert a clip from the bin somewhere into the existing edits, hold the CTRL key while dragging the clip to the sequence, and when you drop the clip in between two other clips, everything to the right will shift over.

Alternately, zoom out far enough to see all your clips in the sequence, and click-drag the mouse to highlight all the clips you want to move, and once that group of clips is highlighted, you can drag the group to the right with the mouse to open a gap.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

That’s really bizarre. Rather than using the “Black Video” function in Premiere, try creating a black Matte in Premiere or just a black video-sized still from Photoshop, some other type of placeholder and see

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Tim,

Curious if you know the answer to this – is there any quality difference in using Motion < Scale versus “Scale to Frame” function?

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Jeff Pulera
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