eznewmedia
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eznewmedia
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‎Jan 12, 2025
10:27 PM
I just upgraded my computer and had to install the latest version of Premiere 25.1.0 and I am having the same issue! Crazy slow render times, or the system hanging completely, or an error. This should NOT be happening in a supposedly upgraded version of the software! Fortunately I only have one project that I have worked on in Premiere 2025; I will try to install an older version of Premiere and see if my rendering goes back to what it used to be. SYSTEM: Windows 11 64-bit AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor 32 GB RAM NVIDIA G-Force RTX 4060 TI
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‎Dec 08, 2023
02:40 PM
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Stephan, just so you know, I set the script to process last evening, and it just finished the batch process with no timeouts or errors! It processed an amazing 24,840 images in dozens of folders, and the entire process took 61,655.117 seconds (I did the math: that's just over 17 hours!) Imagine if I had had to run an action in a batch where I had to click "OK" for every save ... that would have been excruciating! This made the process automatic, which helped a great deal!
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‎Dec 07, 2023
08:32 PM
By golly ... SUCCESS! It is working like a charm! Stephen: your scripting skills are unsurpassed! Bravo!
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‎Dec 07, 2023
07:26 PM
That must be it Stephen ... and the latest version of Photoshop produced the same dialogue (image attached). In your first script, you had compression parameters: // Compression parameters = "compressionLossless" | "compressionLossy"
descriptor2.putEnumerated(s2t("compression"), s2t("WebPCompression"), s2t(compType)); // string variable
var WebPCompIsLossless = false; // set the default flag for compression
if (WebPCompIsLossless == false) {
// 0 (lowest lossy quality) - 100 (highest lossy quality)
descriptor2.putInteger(s2t("quality"), compValue); // number variable
} I don't see those in the second script, and the Photoshop dialogue is asking for a compression setting before saving in the pop up. If you add that language to your second script, would that fix the issue??
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‎Dec 07, 2023
07:01 PM
Nope .. no plugins installed at all. And that first script you posted didn't give me any popups, so I wonder what is different?? I see there is a new version of Photoshop (25.2) that I am going to download and install to see if that eliminates the issue ... stay tuned!
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‎Dec 07, 2023
04:49 PM
Stephen, I tried this script, but it requires clicking "OK" during the save process on each image (just like the two step batch process I first tried). Your first script actually did NOT require clicking on OK! I may try to closely example both of the scripts to see I can combine them myself, but I'm attaching a screen grab so you can see what I'm referring to. BTW, I really appreciate your expertise! This scripting option is opening all sorts of possibilities to me!
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‎Dec 07, 2023
04:41 PM
1 Upvote
Stephen, actually I DID try the simple 2 step batch process before posting! As I mentioned in my original post, the problem was when running the action in a batch, the process would stop and require manually clicking on "OK" to save on each file, which is why I was looking for an alternative.
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‎Dec 07, 2023
11:01 AM
Hi Stephan, this script works really well! Looking at the programming language, it's very logical and elegant. It's still somewhat time consuming since it only does a single folder at a time, and so I have to choose the main folder, and then the destination folder for each set of images ... and there are hundreds of folders! Is it possible to add a function in this script so it behaves like a Photoshop action to select a folder, and then all the subfolders? I also see a "save as" function in the script that looks for existing files, so I'm guessing it might be possible to just have the script overwrite the existing files, or have a "flag" to check an option for overwriting existing files? For my particular application, I'm working with a copy of the folders and files that I need to convert to smaller WebP images, so just have the script overwrite the existing files if choosing to save back to the original directory would be ideal! Trying to think through the logic, maybe if a folder is selected, and all of its sub folders are also selected, the script will have a dialogue for a check box to "overwrite existing files?" or something along those lines. Not even sure if this is possible with scripting, but I thought I'd ask! I can't wait to try out some of my own scripts ... can you recommend a good resource Stephen? -Jim
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‎Dec 06, 2023
07:41 PM
2 Upvotes
For a new website build, we were originally asked to save Webp images at 2048 pixels in width. Now, they want those images to be 1000 pixels wide. There are THOUSANDS of images in dozens of folders that need to be resized, so I thought I would create a simple action to run in a batch process to resize all the images in the master folder and sub folders, and then save to another folder. Easy enough; however, when Photoshop goes to save the new WebP image during the batch process in the new folder, it stops and waits for me to choose the compression level of the new WebP image, which I would need to manually do for each image, which won't work. I've seen a script to resize images, and another that converts images to WebP and automatically save them, but nothing that combines both functions. Can anyone help? Here is the script to open images in one folder, and then save WebP images in another folder: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/batch-process-images-to-webp/m-p/14109084 Is it possible to add a command in the middle of that script to resize the images to 1000 pixels in width? Thanks for the help!
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‎Mar 03, 2019
06:24 PM
2 Upvotes
I have a lot of projects built in Premiere CC 2014, and because I don't really want to learn a new interface or deal with projects not loading properly, I continue to use the 2014 version of Premiere. Recently, however, I received some clips in H.265 format which CC 2014 cannot handle, so in addition to leaving the old version of Premiere 2014 on my system, I installed the latest version of Premiere Pro so I could use and convert those clips. At the same time, although I did not select it for an upgrade, Media Encoder updated itself to the latest version. Unfortunately, that somehow disabled the ability for my older version of Premiere CC 2014 to send projects to queue in Media Encoder; I now get the error message: "Adobe Media Encoder is not installed. Please download it and install it to use this feature." I looked on the CC app to download a previous version: the oldest one is CC 2017, which I installed, but I am still getting the error. How can I download the older version of Media Encoder that will work with the queue function of Adobe Premiere CC 2014? This is very frustrating since I didn't "ask" the CC App to install the new version of Media Encoder .. just the newest version of Premiere. And yes: I know that I can just export directly from Premiere 2014, but when you are exporting multiple timelines, that queue functionality is essential. Thanks!
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