Editing Concert Footage

[cereboso]

I currently use Adobe Premier Pro 2.0 to edit and save/encode concert videos that we have shot.
The source videos either come from my digital camera as .mov or I rip them with my WinFast TV 2000 XP capture card and they are saved as large .mpg.
The only editing that we do is cut it up into each individual song and add our watermark image to the video in the corner and then save it and often upload to YouTube.
The encoding process is painfully slow and I'm looking for a better, faster way to do it.
I currently use the Adobe Media Encoder option to save as MPEG-1.
It usually takes at least 10 minutes to save each 3 - 5 minute song.
Sometimes I will save a longer video of 30 - 45 minutes and it will take 3 or 4 hours.
There has got to be a better/faster/easier way.
I am open to using a different program than Premier and/or a different codec.
Please help.
Thank you.

Here are my settings:

[Soopafresh]

How large are the dimensions of the source file? If you're working with HD resolutions and resizing to 640x480, that will naturally slow down your encoding. Plus, is your source interlaced? Deinterlacing (or throwing away 1 field) will also be time consuming.

10 minutes to encode 3-5 minutes of source means you're encoding at around 10-12 fps. Not that bad, especially if your source is HD.

[cereboso]

When I record the video from my line-in on the capture card this is the profile that I use:


I go between that and the QuickTime movies that come from my digital camera.
Those have these properties:


What settings can I tweak to optomize this?
Should I switch from MPEG-1 to something else?
Nothing I do is in HD.
Thanks!!

[cereboso]

Any ideas?

[vhelp]

First of all, you're re-encoding your clips. There's the problem right there. You should prob take a look at the settings being used in the re-encoding to MPEG and see if the software is doing a 2-pass or not. If it is, then that is your *speed* problem, and all you have to do is change it single pass or CBR.

You see, the software has to first decode the mov source. .mov's are complex compression schemes and do take some time to process. Then, you are re-encoding it to yet another compression (codec/dest) format.

Also, I'm not sure why you are re-encoding to (from mov to.. ) mpeg to begin with since your final destination is youtube.

I'm not a pro at this, but if your final dest is youtube then you would prob do better if you just YAMB it (for the easy cutting) and then re-mux it back (the audio and video) to .mov or .mp4 and then upload it to youtube.

-vhelp 4792

[cereboso]

Thank you for the reply.
Is it possible to add the watermark with that program?
We would need to be able to do that, with a reduced opacity (around 30% or so).

[vhelp]

Is it possible to add the watermark with that program?

You mean, YAMB. Basically, what yamb does (through the avenue of the actual tool, MP4box) is demux (or separate) the audio and video files and leaving you with the files to work with. The file is still in its raw or native form, your .mov source.

Now, if you want to add a watermark to the video, then you will will have to re encode it.

Unformatunly, no matter what you do youtube will re-encode the video anyway, and prob make your watermark look bad.

However, since there is no overiding this, you could and may as well do this: re encode to a better compression codec, pref'ably a lossless codec, and then upload it to youtube while keeping your fingers crossed that it won't ruin your videos too much. It better to re encode a video with a lossless codec and use that as the master file to give youtube than is would be to use a cheaper or lossy-er codec (re-encoded by your design and hands) to youtube.

-vhelp 4797