Hi there,
I have been doing really well with my projects recently and THINK i am going okay this time too, but it has been more than a year since i finished the last project. Now i have a question. It is my understanding that each time you render a project, you decompress a little and potentially affect the quality of the finished quality of the photos?? And do repeat renderings make this even more noticeable. I am presently doing a HD project with stills and movie clips. I have already completed about 120 separate Premiere Elements 9 projects, that i will save in the form of mpeg2s to the computer, and then combine about 10 or so of these separate projects into 12 larger Premier Elements 9 projects, and save each of those 12 larger mpegs2 which will then have music added to it, and then burned to a blu ray on Sony DVD Architect Studio 5.0, resulting in 12 finished blu ray projects. I hope i have explained myself correctly.
But now for the rendering question. It seems to me that i have 4 different opportunities to render the projects, and my question is whether it is necessary at least at the first step.
Those four options to render are as i see it: 1) when i complete each of the 120 small Premiere Elements 9 projects, i can render it, and it certainly provides me the option of seeing what the finished component will look like. Then 2) when i go to save the smaller projects as mpeg2s, it states that i am rendering and saving the project. Saving it as mpeg2, but also rendering it again, at which time i have no choice. It automatically happens when
i press 'save' to save the project as an mpeg2. And then when i have the larger project completed combining 10-12 smaller mpeg2s, i save it once again as the larger final version mpeg2 which will serve as the information for each blu ray to burn, but it also will automatically save and render again the project at that time. I have been using Sony DVD Architect Studio 5.0 to burn the blu rays successfully, because that does not always happen with Premier Elements 9. And in the process it again says it is rendering the information.
So i guess the questions of concern, are whether that rendering is affecting the quality of the finished product significantly???? And perhaps even more important, do i need to render the intial 120 smaller segment projects in Premiere Elements before saving it as a mpeg2 for the first time??? Or are there any options that could simplify this whole process, particularly without having to re-render the finished product 4 times. It takes about an hour to render the initial small segment projects, then at least another hour to save as mpeg2 each time. Doesn't matter if the finished product looks good.
So am i missing the boat somewhere along this pathway. I think i am following the recommendations that Steve Grisetti has given me both here and and on the Adobe Forum. Any comments would be appreciated.
Ron