Piracy Documentary Complete! Well, sort of…

Okay, so as it turns out: Premiere really doesn’t like dealing with 150+ mpeg files. Its a sad, sad, sight.

So that means that the movie has to be cut up into three 30 minute segments, rendered, stiched up, and rendered again. I’m currently rendering the first segment. It looks like its going to take 3 hours.

Do that times three. And add that final render on top of that. This is going to take a while. Oh, and if there’s a mistake… I have to start from scratch again. >< Stay tuned over the next 24 hours for the semi-official release. Update: 2 hours into the rendering, Premiere crashed for no apparent reason. That's 2 hours down the drain.


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2 responses to “Piracy Documentary Complete! Well, sort of…”

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    feral

    You may have had better success converting all the clips to AVI’s before you put them on the timeline.

    I thought you were going the linux route… 🙂

    Looking forward to the release! Cheers, Feral.

  2. Yeah, I converted the blocks to AVI instead of MPEG and it worked.

    I didn’t do that for the small clips though, as re-rendering 150 individual files (some of which took hours to render), would take a very, very long time :p

    I’m doing the final “put everything together” render now. I expect it all to be done in a matter of hours 🙂

    As for Linux… heh… I tried, I really did. Thing is, as I found out, the products still just aren’t mature enough yet. Cinelerra has an interface that works once you get it, but Premiere’s interface lets you do things so much more easily and quickly. Jashaka had that winning interface, but not the stability.

    And the others (Diva, etc.) simply didn’t support enough video formats, lacked the stability, or didn’t compile properly amidst multiple attempts to resolve the issue.

    So I gave up, and went for Premiere :p