Adobe Premier Question

[Havalilsi]

I edited a 2-hr video I shot to 80 minutes using Premier, then rendered it. I used the Quick Time and the Sourenson video setting. The finished product is 23 GB. I need to fit this footage on a DVD. The output file is a .mov file. I tried to open this file with Encore to put in a menu but I wasn't able to figure it out. I've used Pinnacle but the program started to glitch too much. Basically I'm trying to get guidance on what direction to go in. The end result is I'm trying to make DVDs of the sermons at my church to make them available to the congregation.

[jtoolman2000]

Should have rendered to MPG2 which would have loaded directly into Encore with no re encoding. Why would use choose that particular format?

[Havalilsi]

Should have rendered to MPG2 which would have loaded directly into Encore with no re encoding. Why would use choose that particular format?

The fellow who was trying to teach me how to use the Adobe products told me to use that particular format because it gave the best quality. I guess now I'll go back and re encode so I can try TRY to use Encore to add my menu.

[pijetro]

What was the original source footage filmed with??
If you use the standard NTSC DV/48000hz, then you don't even need to render..
Simple cuts don't get rendered.

You can then either encode to Mpeg, with the Adobe Encoder, or simply let Encore do the encoding. You won't have any problems with DV compressed material.

Good luck!!

[Havalilsi]

I use a Panasonic Pv-GS400 camera. I use WinDV to capture live to an external hard drive. I hope thats what you're refering to

[pijetro]

I use a Panasonic Pv-GS400 camera

Excellent choice..

First of all..If you've used the above mentioned setting, then your camera settings, and project settings will be the same..
If you save out as an .AVI, then there should be no problem with dropping the .AVI into Encore..

BTW, when u say render, this is a term meant for "complying" , or "changing the guts" to the clip to conform to the project settings.

Since simple cuts don't make any changes to the "guts", there's no rendering required, just a simple output..
If you put a transition into two clips, then obviously, the "guts" get changed, and rendering happens..
You'll notice that when you create a condition for rendering, there's a red line above the timeline..This red line indicates rendering required..
The less red lines you have, the faster the video can get to be saved as an .AVI..

[Havalilsi]

I like to add transitions to my videos to nice them up a bit. When I say render, its where after I cut out the unnwanted pieces of the footage then I go to FILE, TIMELINE, EXPORT MOVIE. It takes about 5 hours for the software to do its thing. I'm just confused, Pinnacle is giving me a rough time of it.

[pijetro]

You've sorta gotta tell us how, and what you're capturing with..


Yes, transitions are required, but the rendering should not be an issue with such small areas..

Why don't you create a New Project file, using standard DV settings, and import a test clip, like the one you captured using WinDV. If you see a red line above the timeline, then your off to a bad start..This tells the computer to recalculate the whole clip..We wanna avoid that at any cost..

[Havalilsi]

You've sorta gotta tell us how, and what you're capturing with..


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GS400 by fire wire to a western digital harddrive via a laptop with WinDV as the capture program. I just import the footage as a folder into Premier. There is a yellow bar above the video.

[Koleman]

Theres also a checkbox when you are choosing DV/AVI as your output. I thin k it is something like reencode video to a bit rate or something, I used to have this checked, and things took forever. After I uncheked it, it TOTALLY sped things up for rendering to another DVAVI file.