How can I do this in Premiere?

[alegator]

I have this 2 hour, 26Gb DV-AVI NTSC file that I captured using Premiere Pro 2. Now I want to create movie clips (16 in total) using Premiere. The way I did it is by dragging the captured file onto the Source monitor, marking the In and Out points for a given clip, drag the marked clip from the Source monitor onto the Timeline Sequence and then File/Export/Movie..., doing this 16 times for each of the 16 clips marked. Now my question is: is there a way of doing this in a one-click process? For example, is it possible to mark ALL In and Out points for all 16 clips simultaneously and then somehow have Premiere generate all correspopnding movie clips in a single sesssion? If so, how? Thanks.

[lantern]

I use PPro 1.5 and do not believe that there is an easier way to export sequences. Only one sequence can be opened at a time and only one instance of PPro will open at a time.

I suppose that you could put everything in one clip and export. Then cut that clip up with something else (VDub for avi and Womble for mpeg2).

[edDV]

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The way I did it is by dragging the captured file onto the Source monitor, marking the In and Out points for a given clip, drag the marked clip from the Source monitor onto the Timeline Sequence and then File/Export/Movie..., doing this 16 times for each of the 16 clips marked. Now my question is: is there a way of doing this in a one-click process? For example, is it possible to mark ALL In and Out points for all 16 clips simultaneously and then somehow have Premiere generate all correspopnding movie clips in a single sesssion? If so, how? Thanks.

I'm not understanding how you intend to use these clips. Are they going to be authored to DVD? Are they going to be backed up as files?

A Premiere project can create virtual clips without need to alter the original transfered first generation DV file. From the timeline, you can encode or export any portion of the timeline.

I guess I'm not understanding your project flow.

[alegator]

Ed, my whole idea is to back up these clips as files for later use. Once I complete the successful creation of all these clips I intend to delete the original source captured file. And yes, I know that Premiere can keep these clips in "virtual" mode without altering the source captured file within the Project, but as I said I intend to create actual files of these clips for backup purposes.

[edDV]

Ed, my whole idea is to back up these clips as files for later use. Once I complete the successful creation of all these clips I intend to delete the original source captured file. And yes, I know that Premiere can keep these clips in "virtual" mode without altering the source captured file within the Project, but as I said I intend to create actual files of these clips for backup purposes.

OK. The way I do it is all on the timeline. In the source monitor, I mark-in, mark out a clip and drag sequentially to the timeline with a short "slate" in between that ID's the origional date, time, original tape number and timecode (I keep the original tapes) and continue until ~60 min then I dub the lot to a 62 min DV tape. All clips are also noted in an excel spreadsheet.

If I was doing it your way, I'd mark in and out on the timeline and export that clip as a movie (DV-AVI) file. Then do the next.

Many ways to do it.

[alegator]

...and drag sequentially to the timeline with a short "slate" in between that ID's the origional date, time, original tape number and timecode...

How do you create that "slate"? Thanks.

[edDV]

...and drag sequentially to the timeline with a short "slate" in between that ID's the origional date, time, original tape number and timecode...

How do you create that "slate"? Thanks.

Title Generator normally. If you want it to look pretty.

To speed things up I just screen cap from Excel and insert as a graphic on the timeline.

[alegator]

Another way would be to batch export subclips to movies, is this possible in Premiere? Final Cut Pro has the batch export for clip rendering.

[alegator]

Just an update. I found out from a forum that batch exporting in Premiere is NOT possible, but I got from another forum a cool way of rendering clips in a single click with Premiere which I tested and works great. This is the method:
"Put your long source clip into a new project and place it in the Source Window.

Mark In and Out Points ("I" and "O") and make a subclip (there is a shortcut key "CTRL-T" I think from memory). Use a naming protocol that suits the clip.

Do this for each clip ( 16 in your case). The subclips end up in the Project Window. Put the them all on the timeline.

Go to Project Manager in the menu bar and follow the instructions (very straight forward and simple). It will create a new trimmed project and at the same time create a unique clip (with handles if you choose)from all the subclips and put them in a folder of your choice. The source media you have not "used" (sub clipped) will not be available to that project."

[madvideos]

here is what I do, I drag the clip on to the timeline, use the razor tool to cut unwanted parts off, go to file-export (as movie) and export as movie, this will drop the avi in the selected folder.. and also put the avi clip in your project window , and you just repeat that process over and over until you are done. Now you should have many clips you can edit easily later.

[alegator]

Mad, thanks for your approach. Nevertheless the post was asking how to do this in a single step rather than separate steps for each clip created. Regards.

[The Linguist]

I'm also looking for a way to do a batch export. Will try the above if necessary. I was searching around the internet and found Premeir Pro Batch Export and was wondering if anyone had used it? if so, easy difficult or waste of time?