If you use Sorenson squeeze 5 or lower a ?
 

Was looking at this and am curious about 1 feature I did not see. Is it able to add some frames to start and end of a video, like a opening warning screen and some end credits?

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Don't think there is a way to do that, its primarily just for compressing files only. Video charge will do that, but I've never found it to have great quality with the finished product.

Well damn.
I know version 5 can add overlays and watermarks so I had hopes. Anything to remove another damn step.

So if you have raw avi or are pulling from a camera and wish to not edit but add a warning and credits 2 programs are required no matter what? Well shit, ok what other program would be good just to add that warning and end credits? Have a feeling it will go way into overkill on this.

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You may wanna talk to Jimmy Gunn tootsie.

I think he is the Sorenson masta.

I do not think Sorenson can do that nor Cleaner XL. I cannot imagine not doing at least some editing to raw footage so your best bet if you have AVI footage from a mini DV tape is to add the titles or logos in an editing app and encode your video right from there or make an AVI intermediate file and bring that into Sorenson. Two steps. Unless you want to mess with VirtualDub or some other apps which may have that feature in a less user friedly interface.

You are talking about just adding in a tile? I can do that in Premiere. I do not use CXL, Sorenson, and some of the other programs. Although I probably should.

I do the following...

1. Pull DV AVI from DV Tape
2. Convert DV AVI to Dvix, compress, watermark (plus tiles if you wanted).
3. Upload to website, clips4sale, etc

You don't even do basic editing like fade ins and outs or anything? Damn you are making bank with some primitive workflows!

Nope.

I used to try some of that shit in the first year. Fade in's, building up the action. Title cards, and so forth. But members told us that shit pisses them off. Get straight to the action.

Since they are paying, we listen to them. Regardless of my artsy fartsy ambitions.

I would like to crank up the output to a higher level between our current, and Jim Gunn. In the middle of the two would work, and our members would appreciate it. However, we can't spend two hours taking a clip from DV AVI to final product.

We simply have TOO MUCH content that needs to flood the gates.

Our members want new girls, some of the same old scenarios over and over (if you read their e-mails, they basically ask for particular scenes, but want so and so, and so and so or some minor variant), with certain angles, and focus on action.

They want shorter clips, more of them, good descriptions, a lot of different girls, their favorite scenes, and value for their money.

We listen...

Well damn. I so was hoping for a single tool. Guess I will have to deal with a editing program.

Hey toots, how you adding your tiles?

I would make a tile in Premiere, or Photoshop, and then just import them into Premiere, and put them on the timeline in front and back of the AVI. I would stretch it to 5, 10, 20 seconds or whatever I wanted it to be. It would more a less rock and roll that same tile for that 30 seconds at the end or whatever.

Then I would stretch the timeline marker on the top of the timeline box to go to the forward, and end points, of the tile-clip-tile. Then compress.

When I would do DVD's in Premiere, I would do it the same exact way. Just picking different output than DivX.

Any known way to batch that toots aside from some version of Filipino?

Premiere does have a batch feature. I have never used it however.

So I honestly can't say if that could do more at once, or if you could program it to do it via multiple timelines, or something. From playing around with things over the years in premiere, that may be possible. You can add in extra timelines to that menu, and I suppose you could like up different clips back to back, assuming your computer had enough RAM memory to process it.

I just have never really tried it myself because I have become complacent in my work flow.

Well fuck. I am getting really bottlenecked and need to crank a bunch of stuff out.

Premiere Pro CS4 finally added batch rendering of multiple sequences. You would have to manually make multiple sequences (Ctrl-N for each one) and drag and drop your video clips on each one. Then you can manually add the title or graphic or whatever at the beginning or ends of the timeline and then you can have the batch export function output them all in a batch overnight to whatever format you need.

Maybe Camtasia Studio from techsmith will be usefull.You can add credits,captions,callouts etc to vids.

Isn't GFY full of them? :1orglaugh

Ingenuity Gunn has da answers you seek. :winkwink: