Batch transcode project media?

I've been cutting a project in native AVCHD (.MTS files shot on the Sony FS100), with the intention of conforming the media used in my finished sequences to DPX files for grading in Resolve Lite (Resolve 8 can't handle .MTS files natively). My question now is: how the heck to I get my sequences out of Premiere and into Resolve? I'm a little new to Premiere, so I'm not sure if I'm overlooking something obvious…
In FCP7, it's a simple task to open up media manager and transcode the project media to a different format, omitting unused media and adding handles to the clips, if desired. Try as I might, I can't find a way to achieve this in Premiere.
The only way I can see to get my edit into Resolve is to export the sequence as a single file and use Resolve's scene cut detector to split apart the shots. This is less than ideal for a number of reasons—I have to move all my video down into a single track and strip out all the transitions, for instance, and because the shots have no handles, cross-dissolves represent a logistical nightmare.
Is there another way?

Andrew.
The only glitch in your workflow is the inability of Resolve to use .mts files natively.
This adds to the complication of what can be a reasonably normal NLE to external CC application (via an xml export of the project.). You can use an intermediate if you choose.
It is an issue for me as well but I cover it by shooting to an external recorder simulateneously ( avch on the sd card and prores on the Samurai ssd)
Speedgrade has addressed this and it will be great ( fingers crossed).
Checkout the CS6 to Speedgrade workflow that has been posted up by Adobe.

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I use Encore to fit client video tapes to DVD. The 'Automatic' settings generate the best results by making use of the disc's capacity while maximizing bitrates. Encore does not have a batch option for multiple projects, therefore it is necessary to manually start transcoding for each disc project, save, open the next project and repeat.
My hope was to batch encode multiple video files from multiple Encore projects with Media Encoder, but it seems that Media Encoder requires the Encore project to be open as well. Otherwise, the transcoding within Media Encoder stops when Encore is closed or a new Encore project is created / opened.
I find this to be counter productive, given that timelines in Premiere can be sent to the Media Encoder which frees Premiere to be used for other video editing. Additionally, Encore can not send a file Media Encoder without encoding settings being set witnin Encore - thus, I am not finding the advantage of having Media Encoder be a part of the workflow.
Aside from calculating the bitrates for each video file in the project and transcoding the files seperate of Encore, are there any suggestions to using Encore and Media Encoder for batch processing?
Thank you in advance.

Agreed. My outreach to the Adobe community is to locate any alternate solutions I've not thought of. I'm sure others have run into the same predicament I have outlined.
I'm open to solutions that are not involving Adobe products. Although, the encoding quality from within Encore is better than most other stand alone apps available on the market. Thus, my desire to stick with it, if possible.

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I've also looked into using Adobe Media Encoder to do this, but I think I'd need to take our files one folder at a time and run the transcode on them so they didn't get jumbled with the other files. I can't see a way to setup AME so that it handles recursive folders, and I also can't see a way of working with AME through command-line automation so that it can whir away and process one folder of 5-10 files at a time. All I can see is a way for it to turn out a similar output to our failure with getting Encore to transcode the files.
Any ideas on how we can batch-transcode for Blu-ray ahead of time instead of wait for Encore to transcode for every disc we build?

Encore is not long filename friendly, and will cause problems if you exceed an 80 character filename (Including spaces). Odd characters and in some cases excessive path depth can also be issues. The Encore authorcore (sonic based) is old, and just not modern filename friendly.
So I'd rethink the long filenames generally.
Ask your AME question in the AME forum. I do not know whether there is a good option for you or not.
hoped Encore would know it transcoded that same asset in another project when we went to use 5 of those same files in another project.
Encore creates a folder structure for the project, and under the sources/transcodes/ folders, a folder for each asset that is transcoded. As soon as you create a new project, all that is gone, and with it encore's memory for it. You can import those files as assets, but I assume your point is that you can't tell what is what.
We can't even play the file to check, and we also can't compare the running length as Encore transcodes to elementary streams that can't be played back.
The elementary stream is an m2v. You can play these (e.g. with vlc player). But all that would be cumbersome.
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I know how to Encode a project right from the Premiere Pro timeline into Media Encoder, but is it possible to Transcode in Media Encoder as well?
I ask this becaause when you go and burn a Blu-Ray Disc in Encore, it has to Transcode my main timeline. If I could Transcode it in Media Encoder after I Encode it, that should save a lot of time when I go and build a Disc in Encore 5.1
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Hi Jim,
I just opened up Encore and on my wedding that I encoded from Premiere Pro in Media Encoder then brought into Encore by going to Import ------- as Timeline ---- It says "UnTranscoded" in the Project panel where all of my other assets are.
Should that file be "Transcoded" already?
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Why is it not already "Transcoded" when I imported it into Encore.
Thanks

Premiere Elements 9 Project Media View List & Icon Icons Gone

Today at another forum that I frequent, a Premiere Elements 9 user was distressed because he could not find the List (Ctrl + Page Up) & Icon (Ctrl _ Page Down) icons that were found in the prior version of the Project Media View. The Icon view was particularly useful for sorting media before dragging to the Timeline or for the Create Slideshow feature. Now in Premiere Elements 9, all you have are your media in a list format with no option to sort.
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First, the questions and then my workaround for this situation
Does anyone know if Adobe is aware of this situation and intends to correct this oversight or intentional change in features?
Has anyone come up with his/her favorite workaround for this matter?
Bottom Line for my workaround: From Premiere Elements 9 workspace, go to Elements Organizer workspace and create a sorted album of the media brought into Premiere Elements 9 Get Media/Files & Folders. Then exist Elements Organizer, opening to Premiere Elements workspace where one uses Filter by: Select Album and does just that.
I will post a step by step on my suggested workaround if requested.
ATR

SG
I was trying to be discreet and have us still remain friends, so I did not mention the responder at the other forum by name or place. You let the cat out of the bag. OK, no offense taken please, but I thought that your workaround "Elements Organizer/Create/Slideshow/Edit With Premiere Elements" was "not so good" a choice. I will owe up to that.
None of the workarounds are as good as the Adobe Icon View of prior version, but....
Workaround 1. If your interest is getting sorted photos for using the Create Slideshow Feature in Project Media View. The secret is to put the photos in a Folder and then move the photos around in the Folder. I can go into the choreography on that if need be. Then highlight all the photos in the Folder, select Create Slideshow. Even if you do not go the Create Slideshow route, this is one way to get sorted photos for the Timeline.
Workaround 2. If the Create Slideshow feature is not involved. Going the create Album route in Elements Organizer.
Premiere Elements 9 Get Media/Files and Folders
Add Media Dialog
Select photos, Click Open
Select Organizer in the row above the line of Organize/Edit/Disc Menus/Share to open the Elements Organizer.
In the Elements Organizer, go to the Albums category and expand that category, then click on the green cross, and select New Album. On that right side of the Elements Organizer you will see a window with two tabs, Content and Sharing. Select Content and drag your media from the major window on the left to the Content window on the right. Name the album and click Done.
You will then see your Album name listed in the Album’s category. Click the green icon to the left of the Album name. When you do, you will see thumbnails for your photos numbered sequentially in the major window on the left side of the Elements Organizer. Sort the photos there as you want them arranged on the Timeline.Then exit Elements Organizer via File Menu/Exit.
The Premiere Elements Organize workspace will open. Go to the Filter by: Select Album and do just that, selecting the sorted album that you just created. Highlight the photos and drag them to the Timeline.
That is what I have come up with so far. I have been doing a lot of retesting of the principle to make sure that it would work more than just the first time.
What do you think? Contribution or first class dud??
ATR
Just another possible variation on the thought with regard to Create Slideshow....it might merit thinking about numerically or alphabetically ordering your photos in a Folder beforehand and then bringing the Folder into Premiere Elements so that you have the Folder in Project Media View...Select All...Right Click Highlight....Create Slideshow?????

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Thanks, Markus

Thx S.
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The buttons to show the pop-up where the information is maintained are in the ALV button bar and I can deal with them in my user command.
I'm not looking for an alternative (for example a program to upload an excel and so one); I would like to know if it is possible to define something to identify which button has been pressed in a Batch Input.
You will get the same issue trying to catch in a Batch Input actions on SE16N.
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Edited by: Arnau Mustieles on Jan 16, 2012 10:40 AM
Edited by: Arnau Mustieles on Jan 16, 2012 10:41 AM

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Hi I'm using Adobe premiere cs6.5 and media encoder. I would like to add an unsharpen mask effect to all my clips and render them out in a batch process in media encoder. Is there a way to do this with out physically handling each individual file?
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Experiment Results: Temporarily removing Events and Projects from library
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METHOD: I copied a library to another drive and experimented by manually removing some events made up entirely of projects.
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I copied a library to another drive and experimented by manually removing some events made up entirely of projects.
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I have made previous dvds/blu-rays with these steps before, but I'm running into problems now, here is what I've done:
1. Create new encore blu-ray project.
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The problem I'm having for my current project is after burning the dvd image, I decided to restart my computer before I made the blu-ray image, and now I can't open the project file. It says something like "getting transcoding settings", and I can see all the assets show up in the asset list, but then it crashes.
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Probably this is due to something cleared out of my suggestions.
Temp files are the one I meant in the previous thread.
When I do some "folishness" I usually clear this files and, after the first time it has to rebuild, every re-opening of the project takes just a min. max.
The names of the folders sound like a DVD project and not a BR one as you've said.
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Hi Jim,
I just opened up Encore and on my wedding that I encoded from Premiere Pro in Media Encoder then brought into Encore by going to Import ------- as Timeline ---- It says "UnTranscoded" in the Project panel where all of my other assets are.
Should that file be "Transcoded" already?
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Why is it not already "Transcoded" when I imported it into Encore.
Thanks

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I have a NTSC DVD project, 4.1 GB in size, which has previously built to DVD Disc, and I have just tweaked a couple of the menu buttons, tried to build to disk again, and the process hangs at "Transcoding..."
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