Kell Smith
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Boy you have that right. I posted a new thread about that this morning. Holy Toledo. I’m exporting a master out now with no effects on it to work from. I’m not used to fixing footage or working with effects so this is new.
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Thank you,
I’ve got such a headache at this point! Ha The learning curve… gotta love it.
This is valuable though because it’s exposing some technical areas I was just not aware of as I don’t usually deal too much with effects, rendering, don’t venture out of my usual codecs, etc.
I’m under the gun and have to leave to go out of town in the morning to shoot another job. Which I am not completely prepared for because of time spent trying to fix this nightmare project. For four days. Ugh.
Right now I went back to an earlier pre-filters sequence, and am exporting that as a master to dnxhd. It appears I do not have pro res on my system – only aic.The project file is on my hd, and the source files and outputs are on an external Western Digital My Passport 1tb drive with 700 gig left on it.
I’m going to have to stop, let this thing export, and prepare for tomorrow. have to get equipment packed, go over the planning, charge batteries, etc. So when the dust settles I am going to study this thread very closely and really make some changes to my workflow. I haven’t been working in awhile, and more work is coming in now so it’s good that this is bringing these issues to light.
I am infinitely grateful for everyone’s experience and guidance on this.
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It won’t let me change it in a new sequence either, in the bin or in the project panel. I did try that though. Not sure what to do or why it’s grayed out at every point. I wonder if that setting is project-specific?
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Ahh! the dreaded error message. Grrr.
Thanks you guys for sharing your experiences with long encodes. You know how frustrating that is for sure.it appears that I do not have pro res on my system. What would be the best settings for, say, a dnxhd master? for 1080p?
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Previews are set to l-frame only mpeg and are grayed out. –?
The reason I was downsizing to 720 before applying the denoiser is that I have so many bills this month I have to wait to buy the plugin, so I was going to use the demo which does 720. I am planning to buy the full plugin (it’s amazing) but it will be a few weeks. So it’s a workaround.I cannot seem to change the preview format settings anywhere. Looked in preferences, media settings, sequence settings, and tried changing them in a new sequence. Not letting me do it. What setting am I missing?
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Okay. I’ll try that. SO render it, then export out to dnxhd?
Would there be an advantage to just outputting the sequence to dnxhd without effects, then bringing it in and applying the effects?
I need to output this to individual clips rather than the whole timeline so that will be one more step as well. Maybe I’ll just output to clips now – put each clip in a nested timeline, render it, get it outputting to dnxhd in the queue? Thinking out loud..Never worked in dnxhd. What’s the best workflow all around for this? Soooo frustrating. Thank you
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The sequence settings are set for max bit depth, max render quality. Then a dialog box came up which recommended optimizing render for “memory” with those settings, so I changed that in the preferences.
The preview format is whatever Premiere does automatically? I think it’s mpeg.
As to rendering the timeline, I”m fixing some footage shot in low light conditions with some slight focus issues as well and wanted to add shadow/highlight to boost it a bit, and an unsharp mask while at full scale so as not to lose anything else, then was planning to put it into a 720p timeline and run a neat noise removal filter on it. That’s why I was working at full, for fear of making matters worse.
Welcome any suggestions.
The footage is 2 hours of MTS files, lockdown second camera so only a couple of long clips. The audio gain was boosted though in the timeline if that matters.
This is very frustrating, it’s overdue and for the life of me I can’t seem to get this project out of my system for review. EVERYTHING I do – export, render, even upload to YT for review (which ruined my file even more) takes absolutely forever. The only think I can do is sit here day after day and watch this stupid thing cook. I’m about to do a “quick-render” – i.e. take a hammer to it.My fault for the footage problems, but t’s put me four days behind on another project as well. Is there a better way to approach this outputting process? It shouldn’t be this much of an issue to put a filter on it and export. What am I doing wrong?
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Thank you everyone,
I tried that and it helped a little. It’s not as bad as it seems – these pics are zoomed way in. I did lighten it a bit with the shadow/highlight filter. Am planning to try this again with some different settngs to see if it helps more. The Neat Video demo helped quite a bit. No miracles, but it did remove some of the noise and splotchiness. I desperately want this plugin, bu don’t have the hundred bucks right now so I’m going to see how it comes out if I downsize it to 720, export, and then crop out the watermark. If not, I will make it work somehow. The rendering times on this project are killing me though. That’s a different thread though – am going to go post that now. -
Thank you,
Those were Premiere screenshots zoomed way in. This is a screenshot from the MTS file. Zoomed in quite a bit, maybe 50% . I don’t really want to post a picture of the faces, sorry, because I don’t have their permission.
Please throw me a rope here. (Not to hang myself). There must be some way to make it usable.
There was a flashing light behind them and I think it may have freaked out the camera a bit. I did have the auto functions on, such as focus, and it was a very short time to set up and I was unaware they were going to have flashing lights until it got going.
The foreground seems bright, the background dark. There’s quite a bit of noise in there, artifacts with the movement.
TO be honest I am not completely sure what I am looking at or where to start fixing it.
They are web clips, so there will be a little more room to work with than if they were being used in other ways.
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Thanks Jon,
Sorry I’ve been swamped and it’s taken a few days to get back to the thread.
Yes, the clips were imported properly through the media browser.
As for the RAM, it says ‘Installed RAM 16 gig, RAM available for other applications, 5 gig, RAM available for Premiere, 11 gig.>>EDIT<<< Grrr... now it's crashing again. THis time in two projects. >>>EDIT<<< Trashed prefs, restarted, now both work again.
