Project Manager - Consolidate and Transcode problems

Even though this looks neat, this is Professional grade paid software with a Commodore 64 feature to export your projects in some formats.  It's not like the community is asking for something crazy, just a better optimized and streamlined feature that should have been flawless in V1, but here we are on V25.  This can create clips from thin air in AI, but it can't in any practical timespan compress my project.  Do you see where the disconnect is.  I applaud the dozens of work arounds, but they shouldn't be needed.  

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Thanks,

Kevin

Is there any movement on this.  Every few months when I try to mix down my videos I feel this Premiere Pro enduced pain in my side.  Having done FFMPEG transcoding and such for some Android video editors, I do understand a lot of limitations in things,but I also fully understand the lack usable UI and good information when trying to mix down Sony video files.  Sometimes is shows progress on windows in the bottoms right, sometimes it seems to crash silenty and doesn't appear to update or alert me unless I exit.  It also seems to get slower and slower as it goes through a file, which shouldn't really take place that noticeably unless there is a possible memory leak or something.  My machine has an i7 with 64GB of ram and runs like a 486 when I use Project Manager.  I would love this to have a less abrasive, and better optimized way to mix down a project.  

@daapap 

Sure, XDCAM HD can be placed natively in a Premiere Pro Timeline, but it cannot be set as a Preview format (called "Optimized" in other NLEs), does not support Smart Rendering, and we cannot transcode to it.

Hi @danielrucci,

You make an excellent point that the documentation could be more helpful in using the tool more successfully. I will see what I can do about that while we wait for the Project Manager to see some love.

Take Care,

Kevin

Thank you for the attention to this, Kevin. The advocacy from someone inside Adobe is appreciated.

Is the fact that Project Manager does not work with long-gop media called out in the help files? If it was not supported, it should either say that on the project manager window, as a caveat "(!)" info bubble, or it should simply be added as a feature. I don't understand why it would not be a feature if you have to render all the other media clips on export anyway. Hopefully this feature can be added/supported.

"XDCAM HD which is a tapeless aquizition format - not an editing format" says who? Adobe? 

Here in Germany broadcaster have been filming and editing with XDCam HD for years with no problems at all, and Avid for example has no problem with consolidating the native files without re-encoding. ffmpeg does it as well, but Adobe can't ...

addendum: and the nearest i-frame in i-frame only material is the frame itself, btw

It's now Premiere 24.0, and I hadn't had to consolidate a sequence for a while, but needed to send a 6 min doc teaser for finishing to a colleague in VFX / GFX, preferably (I hoped) via Wetransfer. It's a 1080p25 sequence composed of freshly shot stuff @ 4k, archive from loads of sources at a range of frame rates, some nested sequences, some music, loads of stills, and cutdowns from a bunch of lengthy audio interviews. Needless to say Premiere's project manager utterly choked at this smorgasbord and I couldn't get it below 180GB (!). And even then there would have been tons of stuff missing. Found this thread and Plumepack, within 15 mins I have a 6 GB folder, completely perfect. Thanks Plumepack ! The only thing I'd say is dupe your project for consolidation with PP (which I did) as it is pretty deep process which guts your existing project and replaces all the media before your very eyes.

Hey, @Andy Adkins .

I have been writing about this to the developers for a long time and was sad myself until I abandoned this idea and just changed the NLE. What is happening now with the development of Premiere is utter chaos and engineers' misunderstanding of what users want. This is extremely sad. And the prerequisites were to develop this idea. I just spat on it.