Export a timeline as individual clips

[Black Rainbow UK]

There must be a way to do this - in Davinici it's literally a check box on export.

Please can someone help me

[R Neil Haugen]

Agreed, that this should be an easy thing to do!

Neil

[LewisFilm]

Exporting using project manager without the effects or lumetri grade is NOT the same, and its not the answer to this quetion.  The answer to the question is apparently: no - premiere cannot export to individual clips like DaVinci Resolve can do with literally one click of a box.  There are a few ways you can export trimmed source clips, and then go back in and reapply the grade to every shot individually.  But that it.  Otherwise you have to select every clip individually and export either with the regular export or the render and replace option.

[R Neil Haugen]

Even in Resolve, you need to make sure you have the right settings or the grade won't go with the clips. But you can set up Resolve to do so.

Premiere ... requires a rather tedious workaround, you are absolutely correct. This is the UserVoice request with the most votes for the feature ...

Export Timeline as Individual Clips

There are plugins that can sorta help ... Autokroma's "AfterCodecs" gives you the ability to export multiple clips from a sequence as clips, but ... without their original clip or sequence timecode.

Also "Clips Exporter" from aescripts.com, but I don't know if that gives timecodes of the clips either.

Neither seems a replacement for what the app should do without a plugin.

Neil

[pixonti]

I just ran upon this thread, somewhat by accident, that started several years ago and thought I'd provide a different solution for anyone wanting to use it. While using the Project Manager (as suggested) to export individual clips is useful and valuable, by consolidating and transcoding, here's a different way.

If your sequence contains all the cuts for each clip you want to export individually, this should work for you. Start with creating a new bin in your project (to make things easier). Then select all the clips in the sequence and drag to the bin. The cursor should change to a hand with a plus symbol. After dropping this onto the new bin a new clip will be created. This is essentially an in and out point of the primary clip. You can double-click each one to see the in and out point. You can also rename them so each clip, when exported, will be named separately.

Then select all the clips in the bin, right-click and choose Export Media. All the clips will be selected for export. Personally, I send them to Media Encoder, but I do believe that merely exporting from Premiere will export them all using the same settings.

I hope this helps.

[pixonti]

One thing I should mention, make sure before exporting to tick the box to "Include clip and sequence markers". This is in the Metadata section in the Premiere Pro export settings. Otherwise, all the clips will ignore the in and out points.

Then, if you're using Media Encoder, make sure you confirm the Source Range of all the clips to export by selecting all the clips in the Queue (the preset should be set to Custom) and click on the top Custom link to open the settings for all the selected clips. This will open the settings to show the export preview. Set the Source Range to Clip In/Out to so that you only export that portion of the entire sequence. I hope this provides further clarification.

[NitWitt10]

@pixonti Thank you so much!! I spent hours searching the internet for a simple solution to this, and this is by far the most elegant and streamlined one I've found. You get all the points. 

[Daniel Kelly Brown]

It would be amazing if you could click a box that includes effects and color corrections made on the clips.  It would save me a lifetimes worth of time exporting trimmed up and colorcorrected clips for stock sites.  Currently I have to nest each clip and select them all and export that way.  Seems like a tottally unesseary step.   I think it would be best if you could just select all the clips on a timeline and right click them, then have an option to export clips indivually.

[Daniel Kelly Brown]

 It would be amazing if you could click a box that includes effects and color corrections made on the clips.  It would save me a lifetimes worth of time exporting trimmed up and colorcorrected clips for stock sites.  Currently I have to nest each clip and select them all and export that way.  Seems like a tottally unesseary step.   I think it would be best if you could just select all the clips on a timeline and right click them, then have an option to export clips indivually.  Please update this thread when this is implmented.  Hopefully Adobe will put this on the top of their to do list, seems like a no brainer feature to have implmented. 

[Daniel Kelly Brown]

Any updates on this, I could REALLY use this feature.   It would be best if you could simply select the clips you want to export in the timeline and right click them and select "Export as individual clips"  -  Then if you wanted you could have two checkboxes on a dialague that pops up along with the normal render settings.  One check box to export clips wihtout effects applied and one to export with them applied..perhaps a third to export with both. 

[pixonti]

I recently discovered that in the more recent versions of Premiere Pro, the option in the Export window, Include clip and sequence markers, has been removed. There is now only a Include Markers option. It seems the same process will work to export clips using Premiere Pro 2023 and 2024 using this same workflow, and checking the Include Markers and exporting to Media Encoder.

[Justin Kase Conder]

I stumbled upon a couple of other options that may prove useful to everyone, especially if you have lots of clips to export.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI7X-NSj_ls

2 - https://www.reddit.com/r/premiere/comments/zkwspu/batch_export_clips_in_timeline_automatically/

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi @Black Rainbow UK and community,

I moved this feature request to the Ideas forum. Kindly upvote. I did.

Cheers,
Kevin

[SimonReichelACF]

it's 2024 and there's still no option to do this. outright mental. 

[David381883079877]

Six years in and this is still not implemented, it's bs.

[Richard van den Boogaard]

I have actual use cases where I had to do this in Resolve to save a lot of time. One of my clients requires me to create a "Best of" selection of the footage that I shot. I shoot in 4K, but they require only 1080p.

In Resolve, you simply throw all your clips on the timeline, cut away the parts you don't need and then, in the Deliver tab, you select Individual clips and it renders them out as such.

In PPro this is not possible. And it should be.

[R Neil Haugen]

Yea, it's a totally ridiculous pain point that should never have been like this. From the beginning of this app, exporting media for another app to use has been required in so many workflows.

And while you can do a render & replace operation to kinda do this, it isn't possible in all situations and is a right pain.

[Kevin-Monahan]

I up voted. Thanks!

Kevin

[The Discerning Lens]

When I do this, the resulting clips don't have in and out points. Has anyone else encountered this issue and (hopefully) found a solution?

[MlGorilla32271710quzr]

I had the same problems today and found a solution.

I found a script on this reddit post which automated nesting the individual clips and put them into media encoder for export. With this method you can export them with effects and in a few seconds. https://www.reddit.com/r/premiere/comments/zkwspu/batch_export_clips_in_timeline_automatically/

However the reddit script wasn´t working for me so I fixed it with ChatGPT.

To run the code you will need Visual Studio and Adobe Extended Script Debugger.

https://code.visualstudio.com/

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Adobe.extendscript-debug

Then create a .JSX file and run the code. In the reddit post is also an old tutorial but everything is a little bit different now.

You also need to export a Media encoder preset. Here is my fixed code with the help of chatGPT

var myPre = 'C:\\Users\\S\\Documents\\Adobe\\Adobe Media Encoder\\24.0\\Presets\\mp4_h264.epr'; // MP4-Preset

for (var i = 0; i < app.project.activeSequence.videoTracks[0].clips.length; i++) {
    // Destination of the clips
    var dest = 'C:\\Users\\S\\Desktop\\' + app.project.activeSequence.videoTracks[0].clips[i].name + '.mp4'; // .mp4 Erweiterung hinzugefügt

    // Start- und Endzeitpunkte des Clips in Sekunden
    var clipIn = app.project.activeSequence.videoTracks[0].clips[i].start.seconds;
    var clipOut = app.project.activeSequence.videoTracks[0].clips[i].end.seconds;

    // Erstellen der Time-Objekte für den In- und Out-Punkt
    var TimeIn = new Time();
    TimeIn.seconds = clipIn;

    var TimeOut = new Time();
    TimeOut.seconds = clipOut;

    // In- und Out-Punkte der Sequenz setzen
    app.project.activeSequence.setInPoint(TimeIn.seconds, 4);
    app.project.activeSequence.setOutPoint(TimeOut.seconds, 4);

    // Die Sequenz in die Encoder-Warteschlange einfügen
    try {
        app.encoder.encodeSequence(app.project.activeSequence, dest, myPre, 1, 0);
    } catch (e) {
        alert("Fehler beim Encoden: " + e.message);
    }
}

// Starten des Batch-Encodings
$.sleep(1000); // Kurze Verzögerung, um sicherzustellen, dass alles in der Warteschlange ist
app.encoder.startBatch();

You will need to Change the username "S" to your windows username and the export location to your desired location and you need to name the preset "mp4_h264.epr" and you also need to change the path after Adobe Media Encoder to the version you have.

[João Descalço]

Awesome, thank you! For anyone using this method, make sure to select Range - Source In/Out in the export panel, below the preview, before sending to Media Encoder or export.

[MlGorilla32271710quzr]

I also made a tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNiX1dzalyY

[Braden365074886vat]

I followed your video, but it did not work for me. I try to run the code, then visual studio prompts me to pick a debugger, I choose ExtendScript, and then nothing happens. The whole "select debug mode" and "select host application" does not show for me. I am not a coder, but figuring this out would really help my work flow. Here is my code currently. 

var myPre = 'C:\\Users\\James\\Documents\\Adobe\\Adobe Media Encoder\\24.0\\Presets\\mp4_h264.epr'; // MP4-Preset

for (var i = 0; i < app.project.activeSequence.videoTracks[0].clips.length; i++) {
    // Destination of the clips
    var dest = 'C:\\JetPros Marketing Drive\\Social Media\\Videos\\Compelling\\N411PC Citation Encore Ramp\\' + app.project.activeSequence.videoTracks[0].clips[i].name + '.mp4'; // .mp4 Erweiterung hinzugefügt

    // Start- und Endzeitpunkte des Clips in Sekunden
    var clipIn = app.project.activeSequence.videoTracks[0].clips[i].start.seconds;
    var clipOut = app.project.activeSequence.videoTracks[0].clips[i].end.seconds;

    // Erstellen der Time-Objekte für den In- und Out-Punkt
    var TimeIn = new Time();
    TimeIn.seconds = clipIn;

    var TimeOut = new Time();
    TimeOut.seconds = clipOut;

    // In- und Out-Punkte der Sequenz setzen
    app.project.activeSequence.setInPoint(TimeIn.seconds, 4);
    app.project.activeSequence.setOutPoint(TimeOut.seconds, 4);

    // Die Sequenz in die Encoder-Warteschlange einfügen
    try {
        app.encoder.encodeSequence(app.project.activeSequence, dest, myPre, 1, 0);
    } catch (e) {
        alert("Fehler beim Encoden: " + e.message);
    }
}

// Starten des Batch-Encodings
$.sleep(1000); // Kurze Verzögerung, um sicherzustellen, dass alles in der Warteschlange ist
app.encoder.startBatch();

[MlGorilla32271710quzr]

Sorry for the late reply!

Did you choose the right media encoder version? Do you also have version 24? If not you need to change it. Other than that I wouldn´t know why it won´t work. You could try to aks chatGPT for help which is what I did. Or reinstall extendedScript and VisualStudio. 

[Cam P.]

Figured i'd spread the wealth after getting around this issue recently. If you want to download individual clips in Premiere, you would have to create a separate timeline or nest for each clip. That sucks. What you can do instead is use the Media Encoder to download all of your clips at once. And if you make edits to a clip, you can drag that clip from timeline to the Project tab to save it with all of the edits included.

So, all you really need to do is highlight all of the clips in your Project tab that you want, then click File > Export > Send to Adobe Media Encoder. In Media Encoder, you can download each clip in any format and save them to separate file locations if need be. And, of course, you can export the timeline itself in Media Encoder, too. It's a huge timesaver.

Be careful not to export the original clip if you made edits. You'll be dissapointed when you download a clip you spent hours working on and all of your edits have disappeared.

I hope I saved someone the headache. Happy editing!

[Carlo A]

This doesn't seem to work if I change the aspect ratio of the timeline. Here's what I want to do: I shot a bunch of clips in 4K. I want 9:16 versions of all those clips so I made a 1080x1920 timeline and dropped all my clips in there. I don't need to reframe anything as I shot with this intention. Now I want to batch export everything in the timeline but to individual clips. Is there any way to do this in my situation?