Back-up to external drive worry

[Ken Berry]

Another factor which can make rendering go for a long time are some of the filters/FX.

Could you elucidate further on using "Share as First Clip". I have no clue as to what First Clip is and how to deal with it.

First Clip (or more precisely First Video Clip) is precisely what it says it is. If you start a new project, you start off by adding a clip, then another, then another, and so on. The first clip you add to the timeline is the First Clip! In Preferences > General, you should have the box beside "Show message when inserting first video clip into Timeline" ticked. That way, when you actually insert a first clip into the timeline of a new project, you should get a message asking if you want the project properties to match those of the clip. And if in fact you want any video you render from the project to have the same properties as those of the first clip (or the Project Settings), you say yes.

Then, when you finish editing and go to Share, look to where I have the green arrow pointing in the attached screenshot. You can toggle that to "Same As Project Settings" if you want.

Note carefully: what I have described above only occurs in a brand new project when you insert the first clip. If you later insert a clip which is a different format or quite different properties in the first slot in the project, then if you use Share > Same As First Video Clip, it will produce a video with the same properties as the substitute clip, not the original first clip. But if, in this circumstance you had matched the Project Settings to those of the original first clip, then you can still use Share > Same as Project Settings.

[Al Marotta]

Hi Ken,

Thanks for your good words. Thanks especially for the warning about the first clip. I now understand, I think, that if I start off a project with a camcorder clip, but the mainproject is studio footage, I'd sort of screw up the share process.

I checked in preferences and saw that I had clicked "Show message when inserting first video clip into timeline" but I'm not sure I answered any message asking if I wanted project properties to match those of the clip. Is there any way I can find out if I did this?

Also, there's the issue of the profile. I have no idea what to select and the program has selected for me MPEG AVC 1920x1080 30 15 mps. Is that a default setting for exporting an mp4 file to an mpeg4 file?

Thank you, Al Marotta

[Ken Berry]

Thanks especially for the warning about the first clip. I now understand, I think, that if I start off a project with a camcorder clip, but the mainproject is studio footage, I'd sort of screw up the share process.

That's not exactly what I was trying to say. It all depends on what you are intending to produce. If, for instance, you wanted to produce a video with the same properties as the camcorder footage, but the project included studio footage, then you should indeed use Same As First Clip. But if you wanted the final video to have the properties of the studio footage you would need to manually change the Project Properties to those of the studio footage, and in Share choose Same as Project Settings.

But don't get too hung up (as I suspect you are rather prone to do) over using Same as First Clip/Project Settings. These are only meant to be conveniences where you have made you mind up from the beginning that you want to produce a final video with one or the other set of properties.

But of course with Video Studio, you can manually set completely different Project Properties, or you can ignore them altogether and simply choose what format and properties you want your final video to have once you have finished editing. You could be editing mpeg-4 video, but want to produce a Blu-Ray disc, so you would need to render to produce Blu-Ray compatible mpeg-2 or m2ts video. And the Custom option gives you even wider choices.

As for Profiles, I have to say I simply ignore this. Hopefully someone with a good understanding of them will jump in here. But I suspect they only reflect the Project Properties set for the latest project, with that Profile appearing at the top of the list. Previous Profiles for earlier project are list below and you could choose one of those if it gives you properties you prefer, and then with that new Profile you could later choose Same As Project Settings. But as I say, I don't play with Profiles.

[lata]

Hi Al
The “same as first clip “ option will use the original videos clip to render/create the new video.
Using properties “like for like” is probably the fastest method in rendering, providing of course that the properties are what we require in the final video.
The option is top left of the Share panel, Corel have done their best to hide the option, a little hard to see, the drop down box reveals, Same as Project Settings and Same as First Clip

Once you have chosen Same as First Clip view the properties to make sure they are what you need.

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[Al Marotta]

Thank you gentlemen for your kind help. I mainly did a test sharing on the project I was writing about and may not try it again for a few weeks. I hope you will understand that I am studying in hard copy what you have written and I hope you won't feel you're wasting your time if in the near future I have further questions.


Al