Processing A Batch Of Projects - Adobe PREMIERE 5 User Manual

Processing a batch of projects

You can export multiple video programs or clips to multiple files automatically. The Batch
Processing command uses the export settings and compression options you specify for each
video file being created. You can create and save multiple batch lists for easy, repeatable
exporting of groups of projects. Batch processing can save time and greatly simplify the
following tasks:
Exporting several video files overnight
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Testing several different export settings files to find out which work best
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Creating versions for different media, such as videotape, CD-ROM, and Web delivery
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Creating versions for different editing tasks, such as offline editing or rotoscoping
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To export a batch of files:
Choose Utilities > Batch Processing.
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2 Click Add. Select a project or video file that you want to add to the list, and click Open.
Repeat for as many projects or video files as you want to export.
3 For each file in the list, do the following:
Select the project or clip, and click Target. Specify the location and filename of the file that
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will be produced from this project or clip, and click Save.
Click Settings if you want to verify the project settings for a selected project or clip.
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4 Do one of the following:
To make sure project source files are ready for processing, select any number of projects
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in the list and click Check. This is particularly important if you plan to leave the computer
unattended, because missing files will stop all processing. Premiere opens each selected
project in turn and verifies that clip files exist on disk that correspond to the clip instances
used in each selected project. If a clip file is missing, Premiere notifies you in the same way
it does when you open a project. See "Opening a project" on page 68.
To process the entire batch list, click Make, select Make All Sources in List, and click OK.
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