Export a timeline as individual clips

Hi Roshan.A,

I tried the placing clips in a bin and sending to Media Encoder method. What I had to do was nest each clip, which is tedious even after assigning a keyboard shortcut.

If you are following my suggested method, you do not have to nest each clip. If you've got a timeline with all the clips, with a cut where you want each clip to start and end, then:

• Create a new bin (to keep the clips organized).
• Select all the edited clips in the timeline (or the ones you want to export if you do not want them all exported).
• Drag the selected clips to the new bin.
• Select all the clips in the bin. These are essentially duplicated timelines with the in and out points marked.
• Go to the Export screen (or right click on the clips and choose Export Media...)
• In the Export screen you will not see a preview of the clips, since you have multiple timelines selected.
• In the Metadata settings, make sure Include Markers is checked.
• Below the Preview window (which will probably show that Preview Disabled), next to the Range, change the drop-down box to Source In/Out (it's probably set to Entire Source which is not what we want to do).
• Click the Send to Media Encoder button.

When Media Encoder opens, you can click the custom link, or the settings link in the Preset column for one of the clips. This will open a window to show you a preview. At the bottom of the video in the preview, make sure that Sequence In/Out is selected next to Source Range. This will sohw you where the in and out points are for that particular clip.

I hope this helps. Let me know if you try that and if it works for you.

I tried the placing clips in a bin and sending to Media Encoder method. What I had to do was nest each clip, which is tedious even after assigning a keyboard shortcut.

Hello @Roshan.A 

Which method are you trying to follow? Since there have been a few methods suggested in this thread, I'm curious which one you're using.

If you are following my method, before dragging the clips to a bin, switch the bin view to Icon view, then drag the clips to the bin.

Let me know if that works for you.

This is a massive problem, it has always been so, and yes, many of us talk with staffers in person every year at NAB or IBC or MAX about this issue.

Doing a "render & replace" option of the sequence .... setting things correctly, even though the right result you want isn't always obvious (to be polite) is one way of getting this out of Premiere. For some users, this can work, as the 'rendered' clips it creates are what you want.

For others, sub-clipping, then selecting the subclips in a bin can work. For many users, that doesn't get the thing they need.

For really getting it, Knights of the Editing Table has a plugin that can do this.

Yea, it's a pain.

This methos doesn't seem to respect the in and out position of the individual clips. It exports the full lenght of each clip.

Because this is the first thread that came up for me with a Google search. This script does EXACTLY what I was looking for, it takes a timeline and adds each clip to Media Encoder with FX, audio and whatnot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ8SvIzUZTM

You can check out this thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/export-a-timeline-as-individual-clips/idi-p/10418373#comments

Thank you thank you!

thank you so much this script works, for anyone who needs help give the script to chatgpt and give him the locations of  the folders and ask him to update the code.

You could select all the clips in the timeline, Render and Replace, then Undo