[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Heidi,

To be clear, the size of the .mov file you Import to Encore has nothing to do with the “too large” error, since Encore needs to TRANSCODE that to another format (MPEG-2) anyway.

The best practice is to create the correct assets using AME right from Premiere, then Import into Encore and no further transcoding needed for the video content, is ready for Encore to use.

Search the web for “bitrate calculator” and use one to determine best bitrate for your content so that it will fit the disc in Encore. I just use 560/minutes=rate and round down a touch, but that’s just me 😉

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Jeff Pulera
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Adobe has a very short list of approved cards, but *many* Nvidia cards will work just fine. Main thing to look for is minimum 1GB of DDR5 memory in the card. There is a “cuda_supported_cards.txt” file in the Adobe folder that requires modification if using an “unsupported” card. Either add the name of the card to the list, OR you can delete the list and then Adobe just looks at the specs of the card and if it meets minimum needs it will then be used for GPU acceleration.

Google “studio 1 hack” for detailed info and there is a large list of cards with recommendations as to whether they will work or not.

Note that the video cards are not Nvidia branded – many manufacturers make the cards using the Nvidia tech inside, such as PNY, which is a good brand.

The Adobe-approved list can be found here –https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.edu.html

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Heidi,

I’ve seen a few recent postings from people missing the MPEG-2 encoding presets. You will probably need to uninstall/reinstall Adobe programs to resolve, as something went bad with the initial install. Assuming you are running fully licensed version – certain codecs are missing from trial versions due to licensing/royalty issues.

DVDs use ONE format, and that is MPEG-2 encoded a certain way, so if you import anything else into Encore, it will need to Transcode, meaning the video will be encoded yet again inside Encore before burning.

Try this – in Encore, go to File > Edit Quality Presets

There you will find the Export Settings panel. Choose “MPEG-2 DVD” for Format, and for Preset, choose “NTSC DV High Quality 8mb CBR 1 Pass”. Then go to the VIDEO tab and adjust the following parameters:

Frame Rate
Aspect Ratio
Bitrate

Frame rate is usually 29.97, and aspect will be 4:3 or 16:9, choose the latter for widescreen source. For bitrate, with 1 hour 25 minutes of video, set that at 6.5

Under AUDIO tab, make sure it is “Dolby Digital”.

“Check Project” again and see if you get the too large error. If so, lower bitrate to 6.4 and try again.

I hope this works for you

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

I would not call Yellow a “render bar” since it does NOT need to render, only Red bars do. Please see Adobe’s explanation of colors – https://blogs.adobe.com/premierepro/2011/02/red-yellow-and-green-render-bars.html

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Jeff Pulera
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I would be more concerned about the PC itself more than the graphics card – how old is it? And do you have Windows 7 64 bit OS for CS6? If the PC is 5 years old and you want to edit the latest AVCHD and DSLR-type formats, you may be very disappointed with the performance.

I checked on the FX 1800 card and it has 768mb of memory, while 896mb is required for Mercury GPU Playback, so it’s not going to work in GPU mode.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi David,

When you had to open the Auto-Save project, did you then immediately do a “Save As” to save a new copy outside the auto-save folder? That is an important step, so that the project file does not get overwritten by subsequent auto-save versions.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Nery,

Are you using Dynamic Link from Premiere? Perhaps try encoding from Premiere, with File > Export > Media and create the “MPEG-2 DVD” content in Adobe Media Encoder.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Not sure if this would affect you, but I read an interesting post yesterday that suggested that the common problem of files needing to conform every time a project is opened was due to the system clock being different between various machines on the network, and in your case, maybe on the other machine you edit on?

Therefore the time stamps on files might not make sense on another system, for instance if they are a future time, so Premiere rebuilds/refreshes certain files.

I think for a Mac network, “NPT” was referenced, some sort of timing indicator in the network? I’m a PC user

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Search your drive for .prfpset files, those are the saved effect presets.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Ditto on pulling the BMD card. Have not used it on Mac, but last PC system we built with CS6 and BMD was dodgy, ended up pulling the BMD card due to performance issues. Not to say that is definitely the issue, but if you can just try Adobe by itself, that will establish a “baseline performance” and removes the variable of the capture device.

If it still acts up, then you can start looking at other factors.

Thanks

Jeff