If you're editing 4K footage or above inside of Premiere Pro,
you may notice that it's quite slow at playback.
Well, what if I told you that the reason why it's slow
is that you're using the wrong video codec?
That's what I'm going to talk about in today's video.
Let's get into it.
So first, let's define what a video codec is.
It essentially compresses the video data
into a viewable format that can be then decompress as you view it.
Now there's different types of codecs that serve for different purposes.
For example, you may have heard of H264, which is the most popular codec for web
because it keeps the file size small while still retaining quality.
And there's Apple ProRes, and there's other ones like DNxHD
and those two Apple ProRes and DNxHD are best for editing.
Now, the problem is is a lot of consumer cameras these days
actually record to an H.264
codec, which wasn't designed for editing.
It was actually designed as a delivery format.
So it's great for uploading your video, but not for editing.
And the reason why is that it is INTER frame,
which means that if you look at all of the frames in a shot,
let's say there's 24 frames all of the Pixel data
and the information isn't stored in each frame.
The future frames actually borrow from the previous frames,
so it's actually key framed and having to read that information.
As you play back in the timeline, the CPU has to work harder
to read all that information, and that's why there are delays.
Now there may be more delays if you're using,
you know, a hard disk in comparison to a solid state
drives, you also have to remember about the hardware that you're using.
But more often than not, the H264 is going to take more time
to read compared to an INTRA frame codec,
which actually stores the information on each individual frame.
So it's easy to read an INTRA frame codecs are, for example, ProRes or DNxHD.
So if you can record directly to Apple progress on your camera,
do that because you want to be using an intra frame codec to be video editing.
But if you can only record to H.264, this is what I'm going to show you
in today's video.
How to automatically transcode them into a prores codec, for example.
so you will have smoother editing.
So welcome back to the Premiere Golf Channel.
I'm Kelsey and I run this channel.
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For now, let's go ahead and show you how to transcode.
So rather than opening up Adobe Media Encoder separately, you can actually start
the transcoding process automatically from Premiere Pro.
So go to your media browser and here you're going to select ingest
and that next to the wrench tool, you're going to change the drop
down here to transcode, which is just a fancy word for converting.
And then you can choose the preset and there's automatically already here.
The Apple Progress for two to which we want to select
and the primary destination, we can choose a different location.
For example, we can go here into our project file
and we can create
a new folder called trends coded clips
and hit create
and then hit OK.
So then what we can do is we can select
the H264 4K footage clips
and I'll press shift to select all of them, and then I'm going to drag
and drop them into my timeline to import them.
And what this is going to do is it'll import them as H264 clips.
If you don't have Adobe
Media Encoder open, it will open up and it will start to transcode the clips.
And as this is done, you can see that this one was replaced
with the movie container extension.
So you'll slowly see that all of these
will then become replaced automatically with a movie.
So if you shoot in H264, do this.
It may take some time in the beginning, but it's worth it.
And the other thing that's different between HD two, 64 and Apple ProRes
is the storage space.
So one downside is that the files will get a lot bigger compared to H.264,
which is a more compressed video file,
so you will need to invest in more storage space.
But it will be worth it because it'll be a much faster experience
when you're editing inside a Premiere Pro.
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if you're still finding playback slow on the device that you're using.
You can watch my other video right up here that shows you how to make proxies
or smaller video versions of your existing larger file.
So that way it's even smoother.
For this video, I was using the M1 Macs, the MacBook Pro, the new one, the 16 inch,
and I did a whole video where I did a speed test with 8K footage,
you know, raw log footage and added a bunch of facts on that.
And I compared it against a Dell Precision and my older MacBook Pro.
And if you're interested in watching that to see how it performs, you can,
you know, watch up here because at the end of the day, you know, doing
these things that I'm showing, you can help speed up your process.
But if your GPU, your graphics card isn't up to speed, you will still get delays.
And that's why I recommend the proxy workflow.
But it does take a little bit more time.
So anyway,
I hope this video helped you out and it helped speed up your video editing.
If you have any questions, just leave a comment below.
And yeah, that's all for today's video.
And as always, keep creating better video with Go.
See you next time. Bye!