Jeff Pulera
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Let’s get back to basics. To start with, a 6-minute timeline should never take two hours to export. Ever.
What processor do you have? Which version of Premiere Pro?
What is the intended delivery format – DVD, Blu-ray, Web? You said H.264, so online perhaps?
When you say you are exporting to match sequence settings…are you sure it’s not rendering back to XDCAM? That might take a while.
Jeff
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Sorry not following you – what format are you exporting to?
Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re doing.
Jeff
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Sorry not following you – what format are you exporting to?
Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re doing.
Jeff
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Hi Joel,
Regardless of what format you are exporting to – avi, MPEG-2, H.264, etc. – it is still going to take some amount of time even on a fast workstation, as the video must be transcoded to the specified codec, and the new file written to disk.
If you have rendered the timeline, you will shorten the export time in AME if you check the “Use Previews” box at the bottom – without checking this, all segments that had needed rendering will be re-rendered again!
Some advise against using “Use Previews”, which depends on what codec you are using for rendered previews. You may get a higher quality by skipping the intermediate render, and encoding direct from the original footage on the timeline.
What format is the source footage, and what are the export settings?
Jeff Pulera
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Are you saying that your menu screen is 4:3 rather than 16:9?
Please see this link for proper menu graphic sizes –
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/EncoreDVD/4.0/WS2C3F3ABD-6457-4ca0-898F-720B7E3D0C10.html
Jeff Pulera
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The Quadro 2000 is approved for Mercury Playback, and it should automatically be recognized by CS5.5 without any additional input from you. In Premiere, go to Project Settings > General, and look under “Video Rendering and Playback” – it should say “Mercury GPU” if it recognizes the Nvidia card. If it says “software” try changing it in the drop-down.
I see you have TWO of the Quadro cards – I don’t believe there is any benefit with Premiere – it will just use one – but on the other hand, I don’t know if having dual cards creates any issues for Adobe.
You didn’t say what effects you’ve applied – not all Adobe effects are going to be realtime. Does the clip play smoothly without any effects on it?
Right-click in the Program Monitor window and change the Playback Resolution settings and see if that helps. The default is HALF, but I’ve seen AVCHD footage look poor this way, and changing to FULL solves the issue.
Jeff Pulera
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Please understand that an MPEG-2 for DVD file is several times smaller than the original DV .avi file – the extra compression discards a lot of data. That doesn’t mean the DVD needs to look bad necessarily – compression settings can have a lot to do with that, as well as which encoder you’re using, as some produce better results than others.
How are you encoding the footage – what is the source, and what are the compression settings?
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
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Thanks Ann, did not know that! I’m been a Matrox user for as long as I’ve used Premiere, and they’ve always had all their own effects plug-ins so I never became familiar with everything Adobe had to offer natively, I was using the Matrox RT effects.
Always learning, gotta love the Cow
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
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Video Transitions > Iris > Round
Then hit the REVERSE button. Just tried it to be sure, works perfect.
Jeff Pulera
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Keep your source video in a 1080 format or you are losing any advantage once you start downscaling.
I don’t know about the other questions
Jeff