Editing Transcoded Assets in Premiere

Kevin,

If you do the Edit Original thing and the avi file has already been transcoded, you need to do a Transcode Now on the changed asset instead of deleting the asset from the timeline. Once the changed asset is transcoded, it will update in the timeline.

-Jeff

Jeff,

Option greyed out and set to none in PP version 1.0, so I cannot use the edit original in Encore V2.0. If I ever see this again I'll try retranscoding anyway, just seemed safer my way instead of waiting another two hours to see what happened after transcoding!!!

Kevin

Joe,

I only deleted the video asset from the Encore timeline as I could not see the new PP changes made in the monitor or preview windows. From what Jeff said earlier I believe I was seeing the old transcoded version and not the new avi.

Is this FAD ?

or should I have reverted to original in Encore before changing the AVI in PP ?

Regards,

Kevin

>Kevin, if you replace an asset with a new one, the transcoded version should revert to original automatically.

Joe,

Are we still talking about Edit Original or are you describing the behavior of the Replace Asset command?

In my tests earlier today, I saw the same behavior as Kevin (no automatic update in timeline). The changed/updated asset does appear in the Project Panel as untranscoded.

-Jeff

Joe,

I did not use Encore to replace the asset in any way.......

I had built a DVD of a Junior football league cup final and decided to add a team score box in the top left corner AKA the BBC.......

Anyway all looked good in Premiere on 14" Sony reference monitor, all looked good in Encore preview 4" monitor, burnt a disk and found the score font was unreadable on 32" widescreen TV.

So I simply went to photoshop and made the font larger, into PP which picked up the modified .png file, exported another avi from PP,
went into Encore which said the avi needed to be transcoded again, but when I viewed the timeline it still showed the old small font score.

Kevin

I believe that is normal Kevin. The timeline won't update until the re-transcoding is completed. If you build a new disk, it should re-transcode and build the disk correctly. Or to be sure, you can do a "transcode now" and check it. The video has been properly updating for me - it's only the chapter markers that have been wonky. It can't burn a DVD with the wrong video since the transcoded video is overwritten by re-transcoding. If you still show the old video after re-transcoding, or changing the AVI file doesn't automatically revert back to original, then maybe you saved from Premiere under a different name or to a different folder?

-Mike

Madmartian,

Yes, I now think that if I had just re transcoded the changes would have burnt to disk, coming from V1 I suppose I am used to seeing the changes immediately without transcoding and was unnerved by the fact that I was seeing an out of date asset.

Kevin

Joe,

Here is a summary of what I am seeing:

1. Create avi asset in PPro. Exit PPro after saving project.
2. Import PPro avi asset into Encore.
3. Create new Encore timeline using avi asset.
4. Transcode Now on avi asset.
5. Save Encore project and exit Encore.
6. Open PPro and modify original clip. Save as avi by overwriting original avi asset. Save project and exit PPro.
7. Open Encore project again.
8. Observe that asset is updated in Project panel, but not in timeline or in Monitor panel. Asset shows as untranscoded (as expected) in Project panel.
9. Do a Transcode Now on updated asset in Project panel. Observe Progress panel open during transcode.
10. When transcode is finished, Project panel and Monitor panel are updated appropriately. Timeline panel is not updated.
11. Close Progress panel and make Timeline panel active.
12. Observe Timeline panel update appropriately, except for the last thumbnail image in timeline, which does not update at all.

This works for Edit Original, no Edit Original, PPro Project link embedded or no link embedded.

I used a B&W filter in PPro to graphically demonstrate the changes/updates.

-Jeff

Ok, what is FAD?

Steve

Functioning As Designed. Compare with WAD - Working As Designed. :)

Thanks everyone for your time and suggestions,

I expect my clients will want the 'score panel' removed anyway!!!, the sample DVD went out in tonight's post. If I need to modify the AVI again in PP I will do it Jeff's way.

Good day and happy authoring,

Kevin