Sam Lanes
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No, I must admit, these times do seem excessive.
How long does it take to export to, for example, the second 7 minute clip to the desktop as a test. This will help us rule out or focus on the Pegasus drive.
Which version of Premiere are you using? Have you tried trashing the Premiere Prefs?
Adobe Media Encoder preferences can also be cleared by:
Try going to “~\Library\Preferences\Adobe\” and then delete folders “Adobe Media Encoder” and “Common”
This will put AME in default state and remove media cache. Custom presets will also be deleted so make sure to back them up.
[copied from Adobe Forums].I always recommend just moving any preferences files out of the folder, rather than deleting them in case there are any problems (although in my experience, this is extremely rare).
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To be honest, the most vital component in determining exporting speeds is actually the processor as opposed to the drive that you are exporting to.
What is the source material for the project – is it identical to that you are exporting to, or are you doing any kind of cross-conversion (this would add time to the export).
It would be interesting to have the Mac’s activity monitor (Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor) open whilst you are running this, and just see how hard the processor is working. Yes, you have a pretty good processor in there, but it is interesting to see just what it is capable of handling, particularly when you ask it work to do the processing!
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As Michael says, it will be helpful to know which container/codec you have exported to from After Effects.
If you’re not sure, Media Info is a great tool to see the file type:
https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
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In my experience, exporting to a different field order works fine every time.
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The guide below should probably help you with the purpose of the media browser, and will particularly help with your issue of using AVCHD in CS4.
I vaguely remember AVCHD being a little funny with some of the older versions of Premiere. Even now, my workflow when using AVCHD is to transcode the files to Cineform (I install the GoPro/Cineform software so that the codecs are installed, then do the actual trascoding in Adobe Media Encoder).
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A-ha! You’ve pointed me in the right direction.
After masking the footage and manually keyframing (the movement was massive, or the clip very long!) I was able to ‘Stabilize Motion’ which held the footage still exactly as I wanted.
Thank you for the pointers Darby!
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Funnily enough, I recently wrote a blog post which goes through the settings for the RAM Preview function which may help:
https://www.aefromscratch.com/2013/12/30/working-with-audio-in-after-effects/
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The H.264 files from the Canon camera are likely to be the biggest potential issue as they are fairly heavily compressed and so quite Processor-intense.
Ultimately, you need to do a test with a few layers and effects on a timeline to see how effectively it plays back.
If that system does struggle, one trick I often use is to convert H.264 files to Cineform codec using the free Go Pro software. This codec tends to play back much more smoothly on most systems, albeit with the caveat of having to convert the footage prior to editing.
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Thanks Walter, that’s exactly the kind of information I wanted to know.
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You would think it would make sense for the exporter to refer back to the original clips when re-encoding, however as you have found out, it doesn’t seem to be capable of doing that.
I believe Media Encoder will only look at the sequence at the resolution it has been set at before doing the encode.
Is there any reason for editing in the smaller resolution timeline? e.g. if you may want to use the footage in a higher resolution later, then I would edit in the higher res and down-res the final output as required – it is always better to re-encode down, rather than up!
If you have some lower resolution footage you want to use, have you tried running it through After Effect’s detail-preserving upscale? I haven’t tried it myself, but I am keen to give it a go!
https://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-at-ibc-2013/after-effects-cc-detailpreserving-upscale/
Unfortunately, this is just one of those things that you need to take into consideration when planning your workflow before the edit.