[Santanu Bhattacharjee]

[Peter Antoinetti] “One question on Adobe media encoder:
Does that still need the source files intact to reduce it or simply reduce the size of earlier output without the source files?”

Not at all. I don’t mean you take the sequence back into AME. You should take the output file. It has to reduce only the output generated for the first time. However, you should be careful to generate a hi-quality, h- bit-rate using a good codec. (not h264). Because further encoding will deteriorate the quality further. But using a hi-quality output as input will not lose much on quality because any way you are reducing the dimensions, that will reduce recompression artifacts.

[Peter Antoinetti] “Let me further clarify that :
Let’s say
– render out to 4K (heat up to 89C and takes longer to render out)
– with the same clips, render out to 1080p (heats up not as high as 89C and rendering takes not as long)

I thought I confuse you earlier as it was not as clear as now hopefully.”

What are your PC specs, please?

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[Santanu Bhattacharjee]

The number of audio or video tracks is only limited by your resources on your PC. (RAM, CPU, DISK). There is no limit.

You may hit against the wall when you have to scroll up and down the layers often making it cumbersome to work. I am not sure if you are doing multiple videos alongside. That will add up to the number of tracks.

You may have to nest sequences in groups to make them manageable.

A recorded click is a good idea. you may have to put the click multiple times in nested sequence too when you monitor or edit them separately. You can mute the click track when you come back to the main timeline.

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[Santanu Bhattacharjee]

My experience – I stick to hardware acceleration, even if some effects crash or don’t render once a while. The agony of scrubbing through the basic things again n again during an edit is more painful in software mode.

Only as a last resort, if my PC keeps crashing while my deadlines come close, I switch to software mode.

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[Santanu Bhattacharjee]

“I was wondering why it is taking longer to render out to 4K and heating up to 89C and less time for 1080p output when tested a 3-4 min test output?

any further advice please?”

There could be other factors such as –
1. footage on a network drive.
2. There are more unmatched dimension footage in the sequence that you have stretched than native 4k ones.
3. 4K resolution effects or color grading…

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[Santanu Bhattacharjee]

It all depends on the duration of your sequence and how complex the timeline is. If I were to anyway render complex, busy timelines, I would rather render 4K hi-quality once. Later take the rendered 4K output and simply convert to lower resolutions in Adobe media encoder, never come back to premiere.

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[Santanu Bhattacharjee]

Thanks. And all the best.

“Then, without changing anything on the timeline, I’ll render out the same sequence to 4K when I get to a faster pc later on”

Rendering to a smaller dimension takes more PC power than to the same dimension of the sequence. Since the CPU has to do more number crunching in scaling down the footage and all other ingredients, anti-alias them accordingly, etc…

Therefore, you will observe that rendering to a 4K does in lesser time than lower formats.

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[Santanu Bhattacharjee]

Through my experience, I generally don’t go by setting sequence to delivery formats. Reasons –

1. These days clients often ask for social media formats. Once I made a piece with lowly resolution and when the client changed his mind to a higher version, I had a lot of rework.

2. If you have bigger dimension footage than your sequence, you gain nothing in terms of system performance, unless you work on proxies.

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[Santanu Bhattacharjee]

it is always better to have your sequence to the largest dimension of the various footage you have. you can always deliver to a lower format without losing quality ever. The fps changing during delivery though may cause some problems of sync or frame jumps.

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[Santanu Bhattacharjee]

You have a point. However, wouldn’t that be too cumbersome to attach a proxy manually to each of the hundreds of clips! I am not sure if that could be automated. Need to check. Anyway thanks for the idea.

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[Santanu Bhattacharjee]

I work with Big Banks and run into similar problems. Their systems and laptops are horribly firewalled that literally nothing works. No Drive, No Cloud, Not even Pen Drives. I feel like gifting them a PC to watch the contents I create for them. Fortunately, I could convince their IT guys to keep a spare test PC in their server room where they could walk up to see the content!

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