[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Mark,

Which of the 3 drives is used for Operating System, meaning the C: drive?

The “green” drives are not good at all for video editing, as they favor economy over performance which is not desirable for high-performance HD video editing. Always spinning down.

SSDs are fast, but don’t have adequate space for larger video projects. Great for a system drive, not so much for media drive.

Ideally, you’d want a fast 3.5″ SATA drive for your media. Such as WD Caviar Black (7200rpm, 64mb cache). Or an external drive meant for video editing, using USB 3.0 connection. Something from Glyph, G-Tech, LaCie for instance. A RAID solution (2 or more drives in external enclosure) provides even faster performance, with combined speed of multiple drives creating one large, fast volume.

Some folks will recommend multiple drives for media, scratch, audio, temp, etc. but I think that is old-school reasoning from when computers – and drives – were much slower. With fast drives, such as a RAID 0 setup, you may be able to combine all those to one drive. Of course, if budget and resources allow, maybe you want one drive for Media, and another for Scratch/Export for instance.

By default, Premiere writes Media Cache files to the C: drive and if you have a smaller SSD, it can very quickly fill up with that stuff! In that case, setting destination to a different drive (in Prefs) is a good idea. So I’m not saying don’t use multiple drives, but it’s maybe not convenient, affordable, or even necessary for every user depending on their needs.

Thanks

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

From the link you supplied:

● Video codecs: HEVC, H.265, MVC, AVC, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, XVID, DIVX, WMV9, FLV, VC-1, H.264/x.264, CVD 1.0/2.0, SVCD, AVS, Sorenson Spark L70, VP8 ; Very High Speed video bitrates supported up to 120Mbit/s.
● Video file formats: BD ISO, BDMV, MKV, MPEG-TS, MPEG-PS, M2TS, VOB, AVI, MOV, MP4, QT, WMV, DVD-ISO, VIDEO_TS, AVCHD 2.0 (AVCHD 3D, AVHD Progressive, and AVCHD 3D / Progressive).

Adobe Encore is for creating DISCS, either DVD or BLU-RAY. And in any case, Encore maxes out at HD and does not do anything with 4K video. You will want/need to use Adobe Media Encoder to create your files for playback.

H.264 should do the job, create some short samples and try them

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Bryce,

I should add that Tero’s replies are totally correct, but maybe were not interpreted properly when you read them.

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Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Bryce,

I responded to your post on another forum, but did not directly address the root of your question apparently.

If you render a red portion of timeline to green, then make any edits that cause that segment to go red again, you are back to square one – each time you render red to green is like the first time, it always renders directly from the source clip to preview file format. It does not use the previous preview render file, that gets completely replaced.

Please see this Adobe post for additional info on colors – https://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/red-yellow-and-green-render-bars/

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Teddy,

Most of the contributors on these forums are video professionals and therefore are not using/familiar with the programs/workflows you mentioned. As .mkv files are very highly compressed, most likely some quality is being lost in the conversion process to DVD.

You’ll have a much better chance at finding a resolution over here, lots of users with similar interests – https://forum.videohelp.com/

Thanks

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

DVD is a specification, and that spec is for standard-definition video only (720×480). If you want HD video on a disc, then you would make a Blu-ray disc instead.

Perhaps a better option – export an HD file using H.264, resulting in an .mp4 file. Save to a USB thumb drive stick. Plug USB stick directly into TV. Play HD video. Some Blu-ray and DVD players also now have USB ports, same thing, plug and play with stick.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Where did you get the odd dimension of 6840? A triple-width 1920×1080 signal would be 5760×1080. This resolution is supported by the Matrox TripleHead2Go product, which will accept the 5760×1080 output from computer and convert to 3 discrete graphics outputs of 1920×1080 each to feed projectors/displays.

Not sure which codec you would export from Premiere though at that resolution.

https://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/displayport/

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Adam,

I’d misread the original post, didn’t realize you wanted the title sequence as a finished video clip. In that case, you can choose QuickTime as FORMAT and GoPro Cineform with Alpha for export codec. Just below those options, there is an Audio checkbox you can uncheck to export Video Only.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Using Premiere CC 2015.4 version, I just created a New Title, white letters. Put on timeline, placed playhead on it, then used CAMERA icon (Export Frame) below Program Monitor to export a still frame. I chose PNG as the format. Imported and tried that still image and it has alpha. That ought to do it!

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

In that case, you should be better off using a 25fps sequence and exporting 25fps. The clips will match up better if some frames are removed from the 29.97fps footage to match the 25fps footage, rather than trying to duplicate/create frames from nothing to get 25 up to 29.97

Thank you

Jeff