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Richardcavell
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July 25, 2012
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How to force Premiere to render previews?

  • July 25, 2012
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Hi, everyone.  I have a clip that's high definition.  It's been video denoised and colour corrected and vignetted, and to preserve quality it's rendered in QuickTime Animation codec with quality of 100 (lossless).  It's 37 gigabytes for 3 and a half minutes, and my humble MacBook Pro can't play it in real time.  That's no problem, as long as I can use previews to do my editing.

But it looks like Premiere Pro CS 6.0.1 is trying to use the original file instead of creating previews.  If I delete all preview files, the line above the clip stays yellow/green (I'm colour blind, sorry I can't tell the difference).  If I drop the sequence preview resolution, it stays yellow/green.

I want the original footage for quality, but I want to edit using something lossy.  How do I force Premiere to make a low-bitrate version of the file for preview purposes?

Richard

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    Correct answer ExactImage

    Set the work area to the sart and finish and then

    (Menu) Sequences -> Render Entire Work Area

    The codec used for the render is chosen in the Sequence --> Sequence settings (though this could now be grayed) and is usually i-Frame MPEG.

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    josephs51576386
    Participating Frequently
    July 25, 2012

    Honestly I'd recommend looking into chosing a different option other than animation, I'd recommend using DNxHD or UT. It won't be such a big file. With UT it will be lossless and with DNxHD it will be visually lossless.

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    RichardcavellAuthor
    Participant
    July 25, 2012

    The Animation format is only for the highest-quality render of it, and it's necessary in order to make sure there's no loss of quality.  But when I'm editing, I don't need the highest quality.  Intraframe compression is fine.

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    needles27
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    July 26, 2012

    If you don't have a red bar, you can trick it by adding a non-accelerated effect (such as channel blur) and keep it set to 0 so it has no effect. But it will change to a red bar and allow you to create a preview file.

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    ExactImageCorrect answer
    Participating Frequently
    July 25, 2012

    Set the work area to the sart and finish and then

    (Menu) Sequences -> Render Entire Work Area

    The codec used for the render is chosen in the Sequence --> Sequence settings (though this could now be grayed) and is usually i-Frame MPEG.

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    RichardcavellAuthor
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    July 25, 2012

    Thank you, that's the correct answer.  I'm used to pressing "Enter", but that's not enough to force it to render previews if the line's yellow.

    Richard

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    ExactImage
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    July 25, 2012

    We created a short cut as Shift-Enter which helps

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