Tutorial: Encoding Multiple Premiere Pro Sequences in Adobe Media Encoder CC
If you ever find yourself having to render multiple sequences from Premiere Pro, there's an easier way to do it than by using the Premiere Pro Export control. This tutorial will explain the easier and more efficient way using Adobe Media Encoder.
The Faster Way: Using Adobe Media Encoder
It’s kind of tedious when you have to do that 16 times. The good news is, there’s an easier way, and it involves Dynamic Link via the Adobe Media Encoder. A lot of editors use Adobe Media Encoder just as an encoder to send files from Premiere Pro, but you can also load files, After Effects compositions, and Premiere Pro sequences (Figure 4, below).
Figure 4. File options in Adobe Media Encoder CC.
To import a Premiere Pro sequence, choose Add Premiere Pro sequence from File menu, which opens the Import Premiere Pro Sequence dialog (Figure 5, below). There you’ll see all of your Premiere Pro projects. Click on the project you want to export from, and all of your sequences (in this case, all 16 of them) will appear in one folder, as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5. 16 Premiere Pro sequences, ready to import.
Select the ones you want to import (in this case, all of them), click OK, and Adobe Media Encoder will load all of them into the Queue (Figure 6, below).
Figure 6. 16 Premiere Pro sequences queued.
To maximize the window, press the Tilde (~) key above the Tab key, and then press Control+A (Windows) or Command+A (Mac), and now if you change the preset or the format, they will change for all the clips. Right now the default preset, Match Source -- High-bitrate, is selected. I want to change that for all of the clips to YouTube 720p30 -- 10 Mbps (Figure 7, below).
Figure 7. Changing the encoding preset for all of the clips by changing it for the top one (with all clips selected).
As you can see in Figure 8 (below), the selected encoding preset for all the clips in the Queue window has changed from Match Source – High bitrate to 720p30 – 10 Mbps.
Figure 8. Encoding preset changed.
Although you can change all the encoding presets in one fell swoop, you can’t do likewise with the output file. So if I open up the output file to send the file to a different location (Figure 9, below), I can change the destination folder only to the selected clip, not to all the clips. So you can either go through and change them all, or you can render out to where the files were going and then just move them to the desired location.
Figure 9. Choosing a destination folder for the selected file.
Once the clips are ready to encode, click the Tilde (~) key to restore the original workspace, press the magic start key button, and the files start encoding.
So if you ever find yourself having to render multiple sequences from Premiere Pro, don’t do it the slow and labor-intensive way in the Export Settings window. Remember that there’s an easier way to do it via Dynamic Link, using the Adobe Media Encoder.
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