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IvanTheEditor
IvanTheEditor
Inspiring
April 3, 2017
Question

Export subclips as individual clips?

  • April 3, 2017
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This seems like a ridiculously obvious thing you'd want to do as an editor but I can't figure it out so I must be missing something here. This is the situation: I have 5 hours of footage. I went through all of it and deleted all the useless stuff so now I have 400+ little clips. I want to export each clip as an individual stand alone clip and send that to my producer instead of sending him all 5 hours of footage. If I drag and drop all the clips from my timeline into a bin in my project window - it creates a subclip for each clip. Great! But I tried to export those subclips - it completely ignores the in and out points of that subclip and instead exports the entire original clip. What am I missing?? How can I get Premiere to batch export all those 400+ subclips as stand alone individual clips?

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      sal6ado
      sal6ado
      Participant
      September 13, 2020

      I don’t know if you’ve found a solution yet and I can see that a some other users in the comments have the same problem. I’ve found out that if you use a plugin like AfterCodecs it will allow you to batch export multiple clips from your sequence.

      Hope this helps someone: https://youtu.be/ZvBEtJeceGE

      Vern N
      Vern N
      Participant
      September 14, 2020

      I just switched to Davinci Resolve instead. Much better and easier. 

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      riialistic
      Participant
      August 31, 2022

      I know this is an old thread, and yes there must be somewhere guide to tell how you should proceed in a scenario described in the opening comment as making subclips seems to be not advisable.

      So please if you know where to find tutorial on how to wisely cut lenghty videos - e.g. a webinar recording - to separate files without a loss of quality or too much clicks, with the effects and possibility to tweak the edits of separate clips further. Thank you!

      K
      katin28599429
      Participant
      March 30, 2019

      Solution :

      Even I had been looking for this solution for a very very long time. Finally found a way today and I hope this would help you.

      (1) Right click the clips, the choose render and replace. This renders out the clips into individual files in the drive and re-links the clips to the newly created file. 

      (2) By default it allows only MXF OP1a files, MXF OP1a files in DNXHD format, or QuickTime format. But you can import custom presets (*EPR files) to export as MP4 Files.

      (3) To create a preset, you need to create a preset in adobe media encoder. Preset -> Create Encoding Preset -> Enter the settings -> OK. Then click the preset you created from from presets search tab and right click to export.

      (4) Import the created preset in step 2 and click OK.

      TADA! All the clips are rendered individually and linked to the sequence. Now you can delete the original video file you used to create the clips.

      Hope this helps.

        Vern N
        Vern N
        Participant
        May 21, 2020

        Perfect, thank you! 🙂 

        JHGoldman
        JHGoldman
        Participant
        September 27, 2018

        I realize this is a super old post, but I saw a reply from a couple months ago and no answer. . . so if someone else comes across this, there seems to be a solution now.

        For individual clips you can do this in premiere, for multiple clips, it needs to be in AME.

        When you export the subclip, at the bottom left of the export window, there is a dropdown for "Source Range" by default, it's set to "entire clip" but you have the option to change to "clip in/out" . . . I'm not sure why that isn't the default.

        The dropdown isn't there if you select multiple clips in Premiere, but once they're in AME, if you select all and bring up the export options window, it will warn you that you're about to change settings for multiple clips and the window that pops up has the dropdown in the same place.

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        TomStaniford
        Participant
        July 3, 2018

        I do have a solution to this as I've just had the same problem! Basically select all the clips on your timeline, right click and hit Render and Replace. Choose what ever format and location and this will essentially export them all for you in a folder of your choosing! Just like cocking AME.

        Then chuck all those files in AME to pick the ACTUAL format you really want (or make an ingest preset for the R&R to your liking in the first place)

        No probs.

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        TomStaniford
        Participant
        July 3, 2018

        Ahh. Just realised that this does NOT honour any of the effects on the clips Sick and tired of Adobe's crap. Broken colour picker tool, corrupted projects the list goes on.

          IvanTheEditor
          IvanTheEditorAuthor
          Inspiring
          July 3, 2018

          Yep. The list is ENDLESS indeed. That's why I switched to FCPX and DaVinci Resolve. Adobe was annoying me as hell with all their bugs, errors, and sheer lack of fundamental features that even "basic" NLEs like FCPX and Resolve have.

          Jeff Bugbee
          Community Expert
          Jeff BugbeeCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          August 17, 2017

          Another method you could try: Add all your clips to a new sequence and select File - Project Manager. Select your new sequence and choose Consolidate and Transcode. Try an H.264 preset if these are just going to a producer for review.

          It should individually trim your clips to just what you have on your timeline.

          shooternz
          shooternz
          Legend
          April 3, 2017
          This seems like a ridiculously obvious thing you'd want to do as an editor

          Well maybe there might be reasons for doing so ...and many reasons for not.

          eg generational loss in transcode / export workflow.

          Whatever - Select your Sub clips in Project Bin and Batch Export them in a Q' thru Media encoder.  It should respect your "selection". It does so here.

            IvanTheEditor
            IvanTheEditorAuthor
            Inspiring
            April 3, 2017

            Shooternz, as I already said in my original post - when I do that it doesn't export the selection of the subclip, it exports the entire clip.

              Ann Bens
              Community Expert
              Ann BensCommunity Expert
              Community Expert
              April 3, 2017

              Did you set: Restrict clips....

                IvanTheEditor
                IvanTheEditorAuthor
                Inspiring
                April 3, 2017

                Hey Ann, that window pops up only if I select a single clip on the timeline and then go up to "Clip>Make Subclip". If I just drag and drop all 400+ clips from my timeline into a bin in my project window - it doesn't restrict them. Any idea how I can have it always restrict it to the selection? I tried looking through the settings but I don't see an option like that.

                Ann Bens
                Community Expert
                Ann BensCommunity Expert
                Community Expert
                April 3, 2017

                Select a subclip in the Project Window

                Go up to Clip and select Edit Subclip.

                Just been testing this but it does not matter is it is checked or not.

                Export the trimmed clip from the Project window does honour the in and out points.

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