Using an action to save to jpg and then to Tiff
Background
I am converting my old slide shows to Blu-ray format. The scans are Tiff, multi-layered, around 6000 x 4000, and are typically about 100MB. When they are ready to go into Premiere, I reduce them to 1080P, jpeg, maximum quality, and save them in a special folder for Premiere. Each jpg is typically about 2 MB, and Premiere loves them. Encodes them very quickly. On the other hand, Premiere does not like the original tiffs. They seriously slow encodes.
To keep the file sizes down, I archive the tiffs as ZiP/Zip (Image Compression: Zip; Layer Compression: Zip) which gives the smallest file size.
To do the conversion from Tiff to jpg, I have an Action which does this to the Tiffs:
1. Flatten image
2. Crop (to a selection I have saved within the Tiff)
3. Convert to profile Rec 709 (Blu-ray)
4. Image size (reduce to 1080P)
5. Save as jpeg
6. Close
Problem
I cannot save the Tiffs as Zip/Zip because sometimes the save can take up to a minute. Shadows really slow down the save. So, before I run the Action I save as LZW/Zip which is always much quicker. Then I run the Action, which only takes a few seconds, and I can jump into Premiere straight away with the jpg.
An unwieldly workaround
At the moment, I save to Tiff (LZW/Zip), run the Action, open the Tiff again and save as Tiff (Zip/Zip), and while it is saving I can jump into Premiere.
What I'd like to do is have an Action which not only saves as jpg (as above), but also saves as Tiff (Zip/Zip) – but after the jpg. "Revert" doesn't work because it would revert to the jpg. I can't do a Batch run because the Tiffs come from numerous folders.
Question
Any suggestions as to how I can write an Action to save a file as jpg, as well as Tiff (Zip/Zip), with the Tiff coming last but preserving the file as it existed at the start of the Action?
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