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November 20, 2022
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Drone Footage Exports as Stills or Choppy

  • November 20, 2022
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Hallo everyone! I am pretty desperate!

Been working on a video project for a week, which has a quickly approaching deadline. After finishing 3 of 6 videos containing drone footage from a DJI Mavic 2 and 4K footage from my new Canon R7 and exporting without issues, I have been stuck on the last one for 2 solid days of trying to figure this out.

All shot in 4K 30fps, some color grading and slowing down added but nothing major. No other effects or complex stuff. 

When exporting, all footage from the R7 runs beautifully, just the drone footage gets stuck. I have tried every single hack online. Export using Media encoder, high bitrate, low bitrate, every export preset, only software, rendering before export, deleting all the drone files from my laptop and copying them back over from my backup hard drive. Nothing works. I am pretty much at the end of my ideas. Solid 20 hours of looking up everything I could find!

 

Please Help!

Correct answer R Neil Haugen

Have you tried transcoding that drone footage before importing into Premiere? Would have taken a lot less than 20 hours ... and it constantly surprises me so many don't seem to think of that option.

 

It may fix this for this moment and get that project done.

 

Neil

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charbonnet
Participant
August 3, 2023

Have you considered transcoding the drone footage before importing it into Premiere? It could significantly reduce the processing time, and I'm surprised more people don't explore this option. Give it a try – it might just fix the issue and help you complete the project smoothly.

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Media Editor
Inspiring
November 21, 2022

There are two free programs that can transcode your video files.(Shutter Encoder, HandBrake.)

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maximiliann56764262
Participating Frequently
November 21, 2022

Thank you very much. Now, as the footage is already used in my time line, how would I go about it? Is it enough to transcode the files in my source folder on my laptop and the changes will be applied or do I have to delete all the drone files from my time line, transcode the original files and import them again? Cheers 

R Neil Haugen
R Neil HaugenCorrect answer
Legend
November 21, 2022

Have you tried transcoding that drone footage before importing into Premiere? Would have taken a lot less than 20 hours ... and it constantly surprises me so many don't seem to think of that option.

 

It may fix this for this moment and get that project done.

 

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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maximiliann56764262
Participating Frequently
November 21, 2022

Thanks Neil. Not a pro here at all and yeah I spent a lot of time on trying everything. I didn't transcode it before. Again, not a pro so I guess you are talking about making them into H.264 files in Media Encoder, then import, make proxys for the work flow and then export?

All this is new to me. 

Sorry

 

 

 

R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
Legend
November 21, 2022

Probably using ShutterEncoder, as it has an easy-to-use UI.

 

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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