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- Sometimes it makes sense to create new media
when you bring your assets in the premier.
Sometimes your original media's resolution is so large
or its Kodak is so complex
that your system performance might suffer.
You could be running sluggish or dropping frames
which is definitely not good for the creative process.
So in that case, you may want to transcode your media
and by transcoding the media
you're encoding your existing media
to a more optimal editing format,
which results in better performance
during the editing process.
So to transcode your media
you head over to the media browser
but I'm going to select the media browser
and then I'm going to press tilde to maximize.
So we have a bigger window to look at
and the transcoding options are right here.
Ingest and this little wrench.
So if I check ingest and then I click on this wrench
you can see that there are four options within here.
Copy transcode, create proxies and copy and create proxies.
In this video, we're going to concentrate on these two,
transcode and create proxies.
Let's first take a look at trans code
which is going to change my media
into a more optimal editing format.
So if I select trans code, I can come to preset
and here are some of those optimal editing formats
a very popular one is Apple ProRes 422.
So I'll select that
and then there, I have primary destination
and this is just where those transcoded files are going to go.
Same as project
so it's going to go in the same folder that my project is in.
I can leave that checked.
All right, so I've set my ingest settings, I'll say okay
and now I just need to navigate
to the files that I want to import.
I do have a folder of high-res media here.
You do have this, but if you want to follow along
you can just do so with your own media.
So here are my high-res files I can bring in the entire file
or I can actually also set in and out points
when I transcode.
This is something you can't do
when you just do a traditional import.
So I can set an in by pressing I and an out by pressing O
and I can do that for any clip that I like
but I'll just bring this one in.
And then I'm going to command + click
or control + click on a PC.
My clips that I would like to bring in like so
and now when I import this
because I have my ingest setting checked
and because I've set my ingest settings
it's going to perform the transcode.
So I'll right click and choose import.
and then you can see that I automatically get these files
in my project panel.
Now they aren't transcoded yet,
if I was to reveal in Finder
so I'm going to right click and choose reveal in Finder.
You can see that it's still pointing to my high-res media.
Okay, the transcode takes some time.
What's happening in the background is premier pro's,
sister program Adobe media encoder
is handling the transcode.
So if I go over to media encoder
you can actually see that it's done.
You can see the status is done.
So it's pretty quick.
If I go back over to premier now
and I do that same reveal file
I'm going to right click and choose reveal in Finder.
Now it's no longer pointing to the Cappaquin B-Roll,
the high-res media
rather it's pointing to my project folder
and then here is my newly transcoded media.
Now again, transcoded media is optimized for editing.
So it'll be great for my overall system performance.
I can continue working with this media
throughout the editing process
and depending on how I'm delivering the program
I could leave it at this new transcoded Kodak.
If I was just exporting a web video
it would probably be fine.
Apple ProRes 422 is high enough quality for that.
Or if it's very important to get back
to my original high-res media, that's fine too.
I can just unlink the current media
and relink it to the original high-res files.
Let me show you how to do that.
So I'm just going to select all of these files, right click
and choose, make offline and you media files remain on disc.
Yes, all right
and now to link this back to the high-res media
I'm just going to select them, right click
and choose link media.
All right, and I just want to make sure
that this is selected relink others automatically.
So once I find this one, it's going to find all the rest.
So I'll locate and I know that's in this high-res
Cappaquin B-Roll folder.
All right, so it's looking for this one right here, town.
I'm going to select it and say, okay, all right
and now all of my files are relinked to the original media.
If I right click and choose reveal in Finder
you can see that it, once again
is pointing to the high-res files
inside of my Cappaquin B-Roll folder.
All right, so transcoding is a pretty simple process
and it gives you those optimized files for editing.
Now let's talk about creating proxies.
I'm going to go back to the media browser
and let's talk about what creating proxies is.
A proxy file is a very low resolution copy
of the media that I can edit with.
It takes up very little space on my drive
and my system handles it very well
because the media files are so small
and in pretty much every case, the proxy workflow means
that you're only going to use the proxy media
during the editing process.
You will always link it back to your high-res files
at the end, since it is so low-res.
So I'm going to again, make sure that ingest is checked.
I'm going to come into my wrench
and then instead of transcode
I'm going to choose, create proxies.
I then choose a proxy format under preset.
All right, I'll choose 1024 by 540 Apple ProRes 422 proxy.
Okay.
And then you also choose a proxy destination.
So where do you want your proxies to go?
I'm okay with them going in the same place as my project.
Okay, so I have set my ingest settings.
I'll say okay and before I bring in my proxy media
I'm just going to go back to my project panel
and set a few things up.
I'm going to right click up here on the header
and choose metadata display
and then I'm going to twirl down premier pro project metadata.
And I want to display proxy path, file path here
and also proxy, okay?
These two settings are really useful
when you are working with proxies.
I'll say, okay.
And they're probably down here.
Okay, so I'm going to bring proxy all the way to the left
and I'll bring proxy media file path down
all the way to the left as well.
Okay.
Now I'll head back to my media browser
and I'll bring in Swan and I'll command + click
over here on of flowers.
Okay, so I'll bring these two in.
Again, I've set up my ingest setting
so that it's going to bring in my proxy files.
I'm going to right click and choose import.
Now, back over here, you can see that it's offline
under proxy until Adobe media encoder creates my proxy file
and now you can see that that one is a attached
and now that one is attached.
So let me go ahead and show you how you toggle back
and forth between your full-res media and your proxies.
I'm going to press tilde to minimize my project panel
and then I'm going to just bring both of these
into a very quick sequence.
So I'm going to click and then command + click on this file
and then drag it over to the timeline
and I'm just going to rename this proxy test, okay?
And there's a button that you want to display
to toggle back and forth between your full-res media
and your proxies.
I'm going to come over to this little plus sign down here,
the button editor
and it's this command right here, toggle proxies.
I'm going to just bring this down to my button panel
and release and say, okay
and now I'm going to click on toggle proxies
and right now I'm looking at the proxy media.
You can tell because the aspect ratio is a little different
and I get this pillar boxing on the left and the right
and now I'm looking at the full size media, okay?
So if I'm out in the field and I have a laptop
and I just want to work with my proxies
I'll go ahead and toggle the proxies on work with it
and then all I need to do is toggle it again.
and now it's linked back to my full-res media.
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