Workflow from NLE to distribution

[paramita]

Hi,

I'd like to get some help in building an efficient workflow for encoding with Premiere. The lack of a proper utility is highly frustrating if you consider this project:

I've got 30 timelines in Adobe Premiere that I need to cut in about 10 chunks of 3min each.
That's 300 chunks of video that I then need to encode to these 3 formats:
* Quicktime 7: H.264 + AAC
* Flash video 8
* Windows media 9

I've got markers on all these timelines to delimit where the chunks are.
Is there a way to write a script that can use VD or Avisynth to batch export these chunks to uncompressed avi then the 3 formats, or to the 3 formats directly?


I'd love some explanations of possible workflows and/or links to some articles/tutorials on how to integrate such scripting solutions into your workflow.

Thanks!!!

[Blue_MiSfit]

Install debugmode frameserver, which will make a "dummy" avi, that can be read by virtualdub, and encoded on the fly to a lossless VFW codec like HuffYVU or Lagarith. It's pretty simple, but I'm not sure how it will work with markers. You may have to select in and out points manually for each export.

From there, once you have your lossless AVI, you do have to export sound separately, but that's very simple. This is supposed to work while doing the video, but I've never been able to get it to work for some reason.

Finally, you can bring this AVI into AviSynth, and filter / process as necessary. This lets you leverage AviSynth's powerful deinterlace and other processing filters, and bypass the usually primitive filters built into most commercial encoding apps.

~MiSfit