Mike Buckhout
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Nothing super exciting. Each clip is of a person reading individual sentences on camera in front of a greenscreen. Basically I need to edit out lines that are incorrect, then export the good audio for noise reduction, then bring it back in to Premiere before exporting the sequence with a different background. I think my workflow is good, but it would be nice to speed up the creation of the new sequences.
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It looks like the information you have was copy/pasted from MediaInfo, an app that tells you everything about an existing file. I would say they have this file and don’t really know how it was made, but they want you to make something new that will work with their system so they gave you the specs from that older file.
Agree with Dave, just tell them you can’t do H.263 and send them an H.264 with the other specs matched up, like dimensions, framerate and overall bitrate. It should be fine.
If they want a fixed target file size then the bitrate will have to be adjusted which I doubt is they really want.
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Not an answer, but here’s a workaround I came up with- Batch rename the source files before importing into PP. That way the sequences created are using the desired filename from the start.
Still don’t know a better way to create new sequences for a bunch of clips.
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It is possible to combine separate pre-rendered video files programmatically using command-line tools like FFmpeg in OS X or Linux. There may also be some special purpose shareware that does the job too, but none that I am aware of.
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Not sure if this will help you now, but I would name all the layers with the same number of digits as the largest value, for example 001, 002, … 010, 011, … 100, 102 etc.
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I’m using a MacPro (2013, 6 x 3.33GHz) and have not had any such issues on OS X10.9.5 with any of the CC2014 or 2015 apps.
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A subtle difference to be sure. How close do you want to get it? Could you crop down to just the text and black within that window and leave a still of the background and window frame to keep that part consistent? Then do a little brightness/contrast adjustment to get the text and black looking more similar.
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Transcoding to ProRes will make the load on your CPU lower, but you’ll need more storage space as you’ve already noted. If budget allows, get a separate drive for the source footage, and one for scratch/render files. You have a backup too right?
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Not sure, but you could make a grid with transparency (PNG) in photoshop and then lay that on top in a new video layer.
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You can right click on the audio clip and select Audio Channels… to disable the channel you don’t want, but the remaining track is still stereo and will be panned. Maybe then you can just export as mono audio?