How to edit 4k With Proxies
How to Use Proxies to Edit 4k Video FAST | Adobe Premiere Pro CC Tutorial
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this video we're diving into proxy video
editing a lot of you guys now are
editing video in 4k and when you play it
back in Premiere Pro sometimes your
timeline sort of lags and that's because
these are huge files so what you can do
in Premiere Pro is you can create
proxies which are lower resolution
substitutes that you can connect to the
original footage and use that substitute
in your timeline so that way you can
edit faster and the playback is faster
so let's jump into Premiere Pro and I'll
show you how to do this all right so I'm
inside of Adobe Premiere Pro CC and I'm
inside of the Media Browser where you
can browse footage and import it into
your project so I have a bunch of 4k
Clips here and all of these clips are in
a 4096 by 2160 resolution which is the
4k resolution and what I want to do is
make proxies of all of these in a
quarter of the size so that way the
playback will be a lot smoother so this
is where we need to play around with
ingest settings you're gonna click on
ingest and then click on the open ingest
settings wrench and here is where you
can adjust your ingest settings so of
course we want to create proxy so make
sure to have that selected and then in
terms of the preset this will vary
depending on what the resolution of your
footage is but because I want to make a
quarter of my 4k footage if you divide
4096 by 4 you get 1024 and if you divide
2160 into 4 you get 540 and we want to
use the h.264 format so we're going to
select that and in terms of the
destination you can make it the same as
your project which will basically export
the proxies into your project folder or
to your creative clouds
I would recommend choosing a location
and creating your own custom folder so
I'm going to choose location and inside
of my media folder I'm going to create a
new folder and I'm going to call it
proxies and then I'm going to hit create
and then choose and now all the proxies
when I ingest these footage will get
exported into this destination so hit OK
the next step is to select all of these
clips here command a on a Mac or ctrl a
on a PC to select all of them then drag
them into your project panel I already
created a folder here called footage so
I'm importing these files and as this is
happening Adobe Premiere Pro will launch
open Adobe Media encoder and send
information to export a proxy so you can
see from Adobe Media encoder here that
it's automatically exporting a proxy for
each shot so it has the name of the shot
and then it has underscore proxy and
this is being exported into that folder
if I open it up here and I go to our
proxy project folder inside of media is
getting exported directly into this
proxies folder that we created so now
these clips are connected to the proxy
but how do you know that so what you
have to do is up here in this top menu
area you're going to right click and
click on metadata display and here
underneath Premiere Pro project metadata
select the proxy file path and proxy
media file name and once you hit OK you
will see here in your project panel that
not only do we have the video info which
is the resolution of these clips but we
also know that there's a proxy also
attached to them and this is the file
name for each and this is where it's
located in this column ok so that's how
we know that the proxies are there but
what about editing your timeline and how
do you switch between the full
resolution in the proxy resolution so to
demonstrate let's just quickly put one
of
these clips in the timeline here so
let's right-click on the seaside cliffs
shot and create a new sequence from clip
and right now this is the full
resolution this is 4k
and my playback is pretty good but
sometimes it's a little bit slow after
you start adding in more clips and more
effects the playback becomes kind of
choppy and you've probably experienced
this which is why you requested this
tutorial but to switch between the 4k
and the proxy resolution all you need to
do is click on this icon here called
toggle proxies and if you do not see
this icon here you need to click on this
button editor and you need to drag this
button down into this menu ok so I'm
going to select that and when it's blue
it means that it's using the proxy
resolution ok so as I play it back it's
just going to be a lot smoother and if
you're still having issues with playback
all you need to do is change the
playback resolution so you can change
the playback resolution to 1/2 1/4 1/8
or even 1/16 so if I go to 1/8 it's not
reducing the quality of the footage any
further
it's just reducing the playback so that
way you can play it back faster and it's
not fully rendering it out the preview
that is so now it's just so much
smoother so you can try these techniques
to have smoother playback another thing
that you can do is make sure that
underneath Premiere Pro and you go to
your preferences and you go to memory
make sure that you're allocating as much
RAM as possible to your Adobe Premiere
Pro video Creative Cloud apps so like
Premiere Pro and Adobe Media encoder in
my computer I have 27 gigabytes of RAM
dedicated to it and only 5 gigabytes
dedicated to everything else that's
going on on my computer so this is
definitely optimized for performance
which is what we want and then of course
one other tip I have is if you go up to
your project settings from file project
settings and go to general make sure
that you're using mercury playback
engine GPU because once you start adding
effects in text this will definitely
speed up the rendering process so make
sure that you're using
GPU acceleration which is activating and
using your graphics card on your
computer okay so we're going to hit okay
and by the way GPU stands for a graphics
processing unit which is just a fancy
way of saying you know what type of
graphics card does your computer have so
then hit OK
so now you can start building out your
timeline and once you're ready to export
it just click toggle proxies and now
we're working with our full resolution
we can go back to full here and you can
go to file and export media and export
it in 4k and that's exactly what it's
going to do so you can see you can use
the YouTube preset 4k and there's an
Ultra HD which is 3840
and a lot of people call this 4k as well
and it is part of the 4k you know
category but it's technically just Ultra
HD in the true 4k if you match source is
4096 so if you're exporting 4k just be
sure to match the source so that way
you're not getting the little crops up
at the top like I just did and then you
would just hit export and you're ready
to upload so that's all there is to
proxy editing in Adobe Premiere Pro CC
if you have any questions about this
process don't hesitate to leave a
comment below and here's a question for
you guys are you guys editing in 4k or
even 8k or are you still just using 1080
HD or if you're editing in 4k
are you exporting your final video as
1080 HD I'd love to know leave a comment
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