How do I pre-render only portions of the timeline or selected clips?

[eschelar]

I'm switching from Vegas Pro to Premiere Pro. In Vegas, you select a portion of the timeline, then hit control-B and it pre-renders that segment.

In Premiere, you hit enter, but it doesn't pay attention to the selected clips, it just pre-renders the entire sequence.

This wouldn't be such a big problem except I'm managing projects that are fairly long, with 20-30 sequences and 20 or so nested sequences in each project and I'm switching between around 18 different projects for a series of 23 or so videos.

These vids are already taxing my system resources with only a few minutes or so (referencing about 80-120gb of source footage), but my office comp is kinda weak.

The problem is that when I pre-render a nested sequence and bring it back to the main timeline, I have to pre-render it *again* after making the next set of adjustments (ie color correction, transitions etc). Then I have to do it AGAIN when I copy it to another timeline for another similar project.

Every time, it can take as long as 15 or 20 minutes (my video card is an nVidia GTX 560 Ti, it has CUDA, but prem doesn't support it for some reason).

When my main timeline glitched out, forcing me to split into different projects, it took me almost 4 hours just to copy things into place with the additional 20 minutes to load the glitched file.

Then I had to go and pre-render everything again to work my edits back into place.

Even when everything is 90% correctly laid out, I still have to wait for the entire sequence to finish pre-rendering.

As above, in Vegas Pro, I just select a portion of the timeline and the pre-render sticks to that area.

I saw an article that said you could create in and out points and use that for rendering, but it doesn't seem to be a CS6 thing.

I heard that Adobe was trying to keep CS6 up to date as a parallel thing to CC. Surely I don't have to switch to a $600/year subscription just so I can pre-render portions of the timeline like a lower-end competitor program has had for something like 5 years...?

What am I missing? There has to be a way to do this simply.

[Dave Merchant]

Select the clips or tracks, then use the Sequence menu to render them. There's no default keyboard shortcut.

[eschelar]

Are you sure?

I have only 3 options on my Sequence menu.

The first is: Render Effects in Work Area (default shortcut - Enter)

Then: Render Entire Work Area
and: Render Audio

No other Render options are available from that menu.

Oddly, those two things are virtually identical. One of them shows 52 clips, the other showed 57 clips. With 26389 frames (approximately...) ETA is around 20-25 mins. That's not very workflow friendly.

It is smart enough that if I pre-render once, making minor changes later makes for much less pre-rendering work, but because I'm working with so many similar projects and sequences, all of them end up needing to be completely re-pre-rendered even if I'm doing a copy-paste and I need to tweak a few little things in one area of the timeline.

This was especially evident recently when in a 3 hour period, I had to go through 4 revisions and needed to keep my original iterations because the person who made the broad, sweeping decisions was making really bad decisions and I knew I would end up going back to my original plan and making a few comparatively simple changes (which is exactly what happened right after the 3 hours).

Out of 3 hours, I could have lost a good hour and a half just waiting around for pre-rendering stuff that hard already been pre-rendered, but because it had been copy-pasted, Prem couldn't see those previous pre-renders.

I actually only lost around 40 mins. But I had to reshoot footage, including setting up lights and camera angles, plus import and do color correction again thanks to no round-tripping to speedgrade and having shot in other areas with those cameras...

If I had been doing it in Vegas, I would have spent only around 10 minutes doing those pre-renders. Oh and Vegas can use my GPU... I'm an Adobe guy mainly, so it's frustrating to see Vegas win on silly niggles like this.

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

You need to uncheck the Work Area Bar in the Panel Menu (right top corner) of the Timeline.

[eschelar]

I had a feeling it was something simple like that. Thank you!

What a relief!

Oh and FWIW, with the work area off, you can indeed use the enter key for the keyboard shortcut. Using forward slash to select area only of that clip or i and o to mark areas also works.

[mattm46660926]

worked like a charm! thanks

[Ann Bens]

Select clips, hit / (forward slash to set in and outpoint on the timeline) then go to Sequence / Render in to out (you can make a KSC for this)

[logann67259463]

your a life saver