Batch Frameserving or Encoding from Premiere Pro

[lantern]

Is there any way to setup batch encoding of Premiere Pro projects?

I am using PPro 1.5 and need to export 4 projects. I wanted to set this up to run over the weekend. However, I can't find anything that would load/frameserve the prproj files the PPro creates and I can't load multiple instances of PPro to have them all running at once.

So, does anyone know of a way to have PPro open multiple projects and then batch encode them or is there some program that can load the prproj files and frameserve them to an encoder?

Thanks!

[defaulk9]

I can't think of one. It would be nice, wouldn't it? The best advice I could come up with is to create a project that combines all 4 of your projects as sequences surrounded by black video. Then you could frameserve that entire thing once and split the video afterward.

At least it would offer you a way of doing the really time-intensive part without intervention.

[lantern]

That's what I thought I would have to do, but that is going to be one huge project! Going to be almost 8 hrs long :scared: