Fast Turn Around on shots

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WpgCameraMan

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What would be the most idea way to cut some footage _very_ quickly from a 150, and then have something in a file that is maybe 50 MB per 5 mins ?

I shot something today and it took me forever to deliver. Did simple cut edits in Premiere of the original 720p60 footage, had a 5 minute clip to export, no rendering needed. Media Encoder took forever. The quickest I got it going was with a high bitrate Mpeg2 file. Then I used another app to convert that into a 720x480 .mp4 ... my AMD Quad 3ghz and GTS250 showed about 40% CPU, 60% CUDA on that pass... I have no idea what Media Encoder was using. In any case, the final quality was pretty bad, yet OK for where it needed to be shown.

Is it really asking too much to have even a real-time export to a smaller file?
I guess we're still far from the 'blink of an eye' type results we need when we're against the clock.

I don't find timeline rendering to be all that horrible, but I wish the exports were faster.
 
Try exporting from premiere into Quicktime Animation codec and from there use Quicktime Pro to export to web?

How long exactly did it take?
 
I think it was about 15 mins for the 5min timeline into Mpeg2 , and just a bit less than real time from that Mpeg2 into an Mpeg4 using TMPGEnc Express.
 
those times don't sound too bad to me.

i master in 720p, exporting from my NLE to a 720p quicktime file using the free Avid DNxHD codec. this has little compression and goes more quickly and avoids gamma shifts in further conversions to web formats.
then i take my 720p master and convert it to an h.264 mp4 in TMPGEnc while also down-sizing to SD (or 640x360).
the mp4 preset has an option for AVC (h.264) that will give you the smallest file size with the most quality.
you'll have to down-size the dimensions of the video to help reduce the file size which is why i suggested it.
you should be able to shave some time off the first render by exporting with low compression, but 20 minutes from NLE to final video seems acceptable and reasonable to me.
 
Interesting device, in it being a mobile solution for 1:1 captures, but I would have to be convinced that Premiere Pro is unbreakable when it comes to saving that data. This isn't a tape capture you can re-start if there are problems (I used to somehow 'forget' the think I just captured because I did something wrong with that clip name window that comes up at the end of a capture).

I don't think that would speed up the turn around time any more than whatever it takes to copy from SDHC to HDD, 5 minutes or so.

I think with a bullet-proof laptop (with an HDMI splitter going to a 2nd bullet-proof laptop) you could make a few bucks replacing film on lower budget shoots.
 
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