Automatic batch processing of videos

[alejandrol99637718]

Hello,

I have a huge set of video sequences, let's say 1 million clips named:

• c1.mp4
• c2.mp4
• ...
• cN.mp4

I would like to apply an effect to each of them. The specific effect is stabilization (using the exact same configuration). Then I want to export each of the stabilized clips separately in the form:

• c1_stabilizated.mp4
• c2_stabilizated.mp4
• ...
• cN_stabilizated.mp4

This would be like creating a specific action in Photoshop and then applying this action to a batch of images. Is it possible to achieve this in Premiere Pro, I have been searching around for a solution but could not found it.

No need to say that, due to the size of the dataset, is impossible to manually load each clip and apply a preset effect with a specific configuration.

Thanks in advance.

[R Neil Haugen]

Warp stabilization is a massive computational effect. The mind boggles at attempting to apply Warp to a million clips. The first thing that happens when you apply Warp to a clip on a sequence is it analyzes the clip ... so applying it to a ton of clips means Premiere is going to take a long, long time to analyze all clips ... and may choke your machine.

Neil

[alejandrol99637718]

Sure it's going to take a long time, I'm working in Computer Vision so I know what is happening behind Warp Stabilization. I'm doing this as preprocessing step for a Deep Learning paper, so I'm already dealing with huge amounts of data and processing so time is not a problem. (I assume that time also depends on the GPU used)

Anyway, if Premier does not offer the batch processing option, I'm afraid that I will have to implement the warp stabilization by myself, with block-matching and global motion compensation.

Thanks!

[SamLanes]

I think this is something that could probably be done by creating a script using Adobe Extendscript coding. I also think this may be more easily achieved in After Effects, particularly as there is a bit more information out there for writing scripts for AE.

I don't have the experience to advise much further on this, but some useful resources I've been exploring recently are as follows:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UutXfHp9KDg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x90MacNDMu0

http://codeandmotion.com/

There are also some great coding folk on the AE forum here, and over at Creative Cow who are very generous in helping with this kind of thing.

[Ann Bens]

Your machine will choke when adding WS to a massive amount of clips at the same time.

Processing will only be done on the cpu not on the gpu.