Tim Kolb
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Keep in mind that many H264 codecs do decode as single-thread, so clock speed on your CPU helps…3 GHz should be beneficial here.
All video is decoded in Premiere Pro at 32 bit float color precision, 444 color sample, so multi-generational concerns inside Premiere Pro really don’t apply. If you are transferring data to another application, you’ll likely be exporting to something else anyway.
Transcoding takes time…and the transcode at the end of the project where you take the native media-process effects-transcode to output, does take some time vs edit mezzanine codec-process effects-output. However, you have to also consider what your ratio is. If you have a feature project, transcoding assets on the front end may involve a tremendous amount of time and additional data vs transcoding only the edit selects with the effects.
As far as your system, I’m most concerned about your 4 GB or RAM…it’s one of the most important specs and the easiest to improve. I run 16 GB of RAM on my laptop for Adobe work.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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[Tom Daigon] “I had similar problems with my HP Z820 running 32 Hyper threads. qt32serve wont run with over 20 HT being active.”
I’m running an older Z800 system with 24 threads and I have no issues exporting QuickTime, so it isn’t the thread count specifically.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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When you are processing a Premiere Pro sequence, you are using CUDA to process effects, etc. just like PPro did when you were editing.
An application starts up in the background that is basically another instance of Premiere Pro to act as a frame server to AME. That is why the two applications are designed to try to avoid stepping on each other if the export was launched from Premiere Pro. A Quadro 4000 is a nice card and all, but it isn’t like it’s a powerhouse with infinite capability either…
With 2 hour sequences and many clips, depending on the system and the type of media (and how metadata rich it is), it can take a very long time to gather XML information before an export. Go to AME’s preferences and under “metadata” set Metadata Export to “None” and set “Preservation Rules” to “Exclude All” and that should help the start up lag.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Yes, Media Encoder will pause when you’re using Premiere Pro if it’s exporting a Premiere Pro sequence…it’s designed to prioritize system resources to your editing and only use the system for encoding when you’re not editing.
You don’t have to have the system gather all that XML data…that speeds it up.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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[Kevin Monahan] “Good suggestions. You could also use a watch folder to drag and drop items into.”
Clips, yes…project files don’t work this way unfortunately.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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“Proper” may be a little vague…what is it that Premiere Pro’s scopes need to better for you? (not a challenge…just a question).
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Keep in mind that FCP may make sense to you…but I wouldn’t want to try to move in that direction.
There are pan controls on each track and you can specify this when you make the sequence, or you can simply adjust the pans in the audio mixer before you export as you route them to specific pairs…(1+2, 3+4, etc).
If you route the tracks per your specifications and make sure that each track is panned left and right, does that not work?
What are your export settings when you create the file?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Stereo doesn’t have to be one track in PPro…that hasn’t been the case for several releases.
If you make a 16 channel master sequence and make each track a standard or mono track, you can set up the output as you describe, but you either need to change your audio import preferences to import stereo as mono, or just select each clip in the project panel and right click> modify> audio tab and change audio clips from 1 track-stereo to 2 tracks-mono for each clip.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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The orange indicators don’t show up if you are looking at thumbnails in ‘list’ view. You need to be in ‘icon’ view.
I have also seen where a user has accidentally deleted one of many edit sequences from a project…
Some more information might allow us to be more helpful.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Whatever effect is applied during that “X” appearing on screen thinks that it’s an expired trial, and that’s the reason for it.
I’ve seen it on a trial installation here, but I can’t remember who does the “X” thing…Magic Bullet possibly? BorisFX? Do you have Sapphire installed?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor