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susan_2119
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October 30, 2024
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Transcoding and Consolidating is skipping lots of clips

  • October 30, 2024
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I am in the process of switching from Avid to Premiere Pro and am hitting a stumbling block. With my one minute test sequence, which has many types of video (4K from 3 different cameras, HD, QT, JPGs) and various audio sources, these are the steps I am following:

  • From Project Management, choose Consolidate and Transcode
  • Source: Sequence
  • Format: DNxHR/DNxHD MXF OP1a
  • Preset: DNX HQ 1080p 29.97


The original project size is 138.51 GB, estimated project size is 35.11 GB. Hit okay.

 

A warning comes up: "Some clips have frame sizes, frame rates, field types, color space and/or aspect ratios differing from their selected project. These clips wil be copied in their original format to the resulting project."   This seems strange to me - isn't the point of transcoding to bring everything to the same specs?

Hit okay anyway.

 

After waiting a very long time, it saves to a Transcoded project folder, and the size is larger than the original, over 167 GB. Am I missing something obvious? What is the process? Our work flow involves uploading 27  minute sequences (27 x my test sequence) to Dropbox for our final post. Obviously this method is not going to work!


I appreciate any direction on this.

 

 

2 replies

R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
Legend
March 17, 2025

Scott's right. PlumePack is vastly better than the Project Manager. Because the PM does not handle any long-GOP trimming, period ... and has it's own ideas how to rename-or-not things and how to whatever. It frustrates me so I never use it.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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ScottSimmonsCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 17, 2025

So, I'm going to give you a non-answer. The Project Management tools can be problematic, often to the point of unusable and it's been that way for a long time. Depending on the types of clips you have in your sequence (e.g., formats, long GOP, etc.),  andthere may be a number of other factors that aren't super easy to identify... It's been my experience that the project manager will either fail or, instead of truncating clips with handles, just copy the entire file, but then it won't tell you exactly what it's doing. It most certainly doesn't work as reliably as Avid's Consolidate and Transcode option. 

I long ago purchased PlumePack from Autokroma, and while it's not perfect either, it does a much better job and is pretty darn reliable.

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