How To Fix Laggy Footage With Proxies In Premiere Pro CC
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Welcome back to another video in this one I'm gonna show you how to create and use proxies inside Premiere Pro to make leggy footage playback perfectly smooth these files are simply exported low resolution videos otherwise identical to the original they are only a fraction of the file size so basically this means your computer will have a much easier time processing and playing back all of the proxy files during the editing and in return this means no leg also ally said in our last video we hit 5k subs here on YouTube so thank you so much for subscribing power to eyes sent us twelve of their best selling on Amazon lav mics and we're giving them away since we just hit 5k and at the end of the video I'll explain what you need to do to enter to win one.
Our item in Premiere Pro right now I have five clips loaded into the project they are all 4k clips and then I have a 4k sequence created with the five clips in the sequence now I'm working on an upgraded PC so it's gonna play the 4k footage pretty well so if you're working on a computer that can't play back the original footage a great option is to create proxy files now sometimes you don't need to create proxy files and all you need to do is just change the playback resolution to half for example or a quarter but if that doesn't do the trick then I would suggest creating proxies so in order to create proxy files go up to your project panel window and then select all your footage right click and then go to proxy create proxies then the crate proxies window will open up and you'll see that the format has a choose Explorer or QuickTime now I prefer creating h.264 proxy files because the file sizes will be much smaller and yes the h.264 file is harder on your system for processing than the ProRes codec however it's irrelevant because we're working with such small resolutions so with the format h.264 selected under preset you'll see that there's three options here if your footage has a 16 by 9 aspect ratio meaning it's either 1080p or 4k uhd then 1024 by 540 will not work for you as this is a different aspect ratio and you also won't be able to use the 1536 by 790 because that's also a different aspect ratio now you can use the 1280 by 720 this is a correct aspect ratio and will work however I like to make my proxy files even smaller I like to make them at 960 by 540 and that means it's guaranteed to have no leg even on very slow systems so instead of using one of these presets we'll make our own so that we can import it in order to do that let's go to media encoder and then with media encoder open let's go to preset within this menu you can either create a new ingest preset using an encoding preset that already exists or you can create your own in this case we're going to create our own and then from that encoding preset will generate an ingest preset so let's click on create encoding preset and we'll give this one a name 960 by 540 encoding preset as the format we'll choose h.264 and then we'll uncheck audio as we don't need it for the proxies.
Under basic video settings we'll uncheck the width and height and we'll change it to 960 which will default the height to 540 so this is a 16 by 9 aspect ratio and you figure those numbers out by dividing your 4k uhd footage by 4 for the framerate we'll leave it based on source for the field order will set this to progressive for the aspect ratio will set this to square pixels 1 and because we're creating low res proxies we do not want to set it to maximum bit depth and then we'll scroll down here under bitrate settings we'll leave it to one pass and target bitrate we'll set that to 4.5 and a maximum bitrate of 5 and this is significantly smaller and bitrate than the original 4k UHD footage and your image in the proxies will look a little bit low quality but it will allow you to edit much faster without any lag so depending on the computer you're working on you can create your proxies like this or you can increase it from there we'll hit OK and then now that we've created this will go to preset create ingest preset and then for the preset name will set it to 960 by 540 proxy for 16 by 9 footage and then we'll go down to the transcode files to destination area we can ignore the destination path as we can select it later on in Premiere Pro but for the format let's go to issues Explorer and then under preset let's choose our encoding preset that we made earlier from there we'll hit OK and then you can see we have our encoding preset and we have our new proxy preset and now that we've created our ingest preset we need to export it so let's right-click on it and go to export presets and then navigate to the area you want to save your preset in and I'd recommend you email this file to yourself as well because it's a very small file and it does come in handy if your computer were to crash or if you reinstall Premiere and you want to create proxies in the future so let's save it here and then we're done in media encoder we'll close that and then back in Premiere Pro instead of using one of these three like we said before we'll click on add ingest preset and then navigate to the area with your ingest preset click on it click open and then you'll now have the preset ready to go and then for the destination of your proxies I always recommend setting it to next to original in a proxy folder because then it's always with your original footage and it keeps things organized from there we'll click on ok this is going to open up media encoder and it will automatically start creating the proxy files and then each one will have the name underscore proxy at it to the end of them if you're working on a very large project with footage that's 4k for example or larger it's gonna take a very long time to create the proxy files so I'd suggest creating a proxies at the end of the day and letting your computer run overnight okay so now that we're done creating the proxy files let's close meat encoder an inside Premiere Pro the proxy files might not be turned on by default so in order to do that inside your program monitor we'll go to the little button here and then we'll find the symbol here for toggle proxies and we'll drag that down into the button area down here and when you toggle it on it'll turn blue and that means you're using the proxies and they'll show you what it's doing here let's go to 200 and then I'll hit the tilde key on our keyboard to maximize the window and we'll toggle it on and off and have a look at the resolution change so this is the original 4k file with the proxy off and with it on you can see that it's much more blurry and that's because we're using the low res proxy file and you'll see with the proxies I can scrub through the footage very quickly and there's no issue because there's such small files so that's how you create proxies inside premiere pro to fix leggy footage as mentioned at the beginning of the video we're doing a giveaway in our last video we had a lot of people comment looking to win one of the mics from power two why's that we're giving away so thank you to everyone who's entered so far we're giving 12 of them away in total so there's still time to enter the same rules apply as the last video subscribe hit the bell and leave a comment below with your Instagram handle telling us how you will benefit from the mic we'll see you next time
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