Low quality export from Premiere

[Casper Warnich]

I've got a lot of interview files that I need to edit together to make a 10 min video.
But the customer wants to review all the videos in their full length (25min x 6)
Even with the enhanced speed of CS6, this is taking forever.

Any experience in making fast exports from Premiere?
Can you make Premiere use 1/16 – or similar – debayer for exporting?

[Wes Howell]

The decoding of the RED files will saturate the available processors.
You'd be surprised how quickly this can work with a Rocket. When Scaling, a Quadro / CUDA card will also make a huge speed improvement.


You might try nesting into a SD sequence and choosing Scale to Frame Size, then export.

[Casper Warnich]

Cool, I'll try that

[MichaelP]

You can always do that one export directly from REDCINE X at 1/16th to an H.264 from the original sources if that helps.

Michael

[Casper Warnich]

I tried that, but it seems 1/16th in RedCine is actually slower than full debay in premiere :-P
At least on my computer (no rocket)

[Stefan Scherperel]

I do this all the time with clients.
In Premiere create a new timeline using a widescreen SD Project, I usually just create one at 854x480 23.976fps.
Place all your clips on the timeline, select all and check scale to frame size.
Export your project using the same settings as the widescreen SD Project you created, I usually create an .mp4.
I usually get 2x realtime on export this way. Make sure "best render quality" is unchecked.

[Alexander Mejia]

Also do a 1 pass VBR on your encode, You could cut your render times almost in half.

The NLE is really good at making draft quality renders, unfortunately this encoding speed is limited by CPU, and DISK I/O. Your NLE will export faster straight out of CS5 rather than sending it to the media encoder cue, since there can only be one open instance of Mercury Playback engine at once, and your NLE already has it open.

It would be nice to get confirmation from an Adobe engineer if MPE accelerates export out of AME while Premiere is open in the background.