Ahoj! This is Zdenka. With all the new cameras popping up on the market
everywhere shooting in 4k and 8k. You might want to create and
upload videos in 4k but if you do have a slower computer
like me for example, you will run into a lot of problems editing 4k
footage. The computer will struggle, it will freeze on you, it will crash. You
will have to restart it thousands of times, you will waste a lot
of time instead of editing very fast and I know because I went through that.
I actually got to the point that I wiped out the whole computer. I've
installed the fresh copy of windows and I just redone everything.
And with the help of proxies, I can get my 4k video
done very quickly. So in today's video I'm gonna show you how to create proxies
and how you can use them to edit the 4k video footage in Adobe
Premiere Pro. And for those wondering, yes you can create proxies in DaVinci
Resolve as well which I will show in the future but
right now I need to actually update my graphic
card on a computer because I simply cannot run
DaVinci Resolve on the system. So for that reason
I'm gonna be showing it in Adobe Premiere Pro.
Yeap.... I've got some computer war going on here.
What is a proxy? Very simply, it is a duplicate of your original 4k
video in a low resolution in a better codec.
So when you're editing, you're getting this
instead of this freezing action when you're editing large files.
So when you will be editing the video, you will be working with the low
resolution files but don't worry. They will be directly linked
to those 4k very high quality videos and then once you export the whole thing,
the program will automatically work with those 4k
files, so then it will render the high quality video
while you will be enjoying your break. Some of you might say, but you can drop
the playback resolution to half, 1/4th, 1/8th. But if that's not
working, proxies will help. Now most of the
cameras use codec H.264 which is very hard to edit
in 4k or even 1080p if you have a slower computer
like me for example. It will take some time to create
proxies so if you are a vlogger which needs to edit the video the very same
day, it might be a little bit difficult for
you. But if you can convert the files let's say overnight,
you won't regret it because it is such a huge
difference. You will save yourself a lot of time editing.
There are a few ways of doing it. I'm going to show you very easy way
and also I'm going to make it a little bit better because I'm going to show you
how you can create your own custom preset. I'm going to open up Adobe
Premiere Pro 2020, my current version. I'll create new project and
import 4k file I'll use in the video. If i add
them on a timeline and play them, you can see how choppy and
slow it gets. So what I can do, I can right click my imported clips
and select create proxies. Select format Quicktime instead of the H.264
and then in a preset you have some choices here.
Let's just select Prores low resolution proxy.
Select folder where you want your proxies to be saved.
I'll just create one called proxy and hit ok.
Now what will happen, Adobe Media Encoder will open up
and in the background it will create those low resolution files.
You can actually watch them being encoded here at the bottom.
And that would be a quick solution. So when you go now to your media browser,
you can see your proxies there in the folder you just created.
Adobe Premiere Pro automatically links them to the big files.
So now, when I place the file on the timeline and select
toggle proxies... by the way if you don't see the icon there,
just hit the plus sign and drag the toggle proxies icon there.
Now that would be great but there is a problem. It makes me kind of nervous
because I don't know if I'm working with the proxies
or if I'm working with the 4k files. I simply don't see
anything written over the video like a, like a copy or
or proxy. I would like to see visually the difference between those proxies and
4k files so I don't get mixed up. For that
reason, I'm gonna show you how you can create your
custom preset. Let's do it. I'm going to close Adobe Premiere Pro
and open Adobe Media Encoder. Go to preset, create encoding
preset. I'll name it a little bit later. Let's go to format, select Quicktime
which will be much easier to work with than the H.264.
Let's move on to based on preset section. Here we are going to choose Apple ProRes
422 proxy. Now, let's move on to video section below
and let's look at the basic video settings and here we can see
that the width and height is the same as the original file. So it's very big
and that's not good. It's not going to help us. We actually want that tiny
little file so it works much faster. I'm going to uncheck that. I'll make sure
select to maintain the frame aspect ratio is selected
and make it smaller to 1280x720. Everything else we are going to leave
the same. Let's go to effects where you will clearly
mark those copies. So we know we are looking at proxies, not the large
4k files. Go to name overlay, under prefix I'll type copy
or you can also type in proxy, whichever word you want.
Format change to prefix and suffix only. Position I'll choose to bottom right or
whichever you prefer. Size I'll do 10 because I don't want the
word too big and opacity is zero as I don't
want to see any kind of a box or background behind
the word and now we are going to name the preset and
save it. Now I don't know how about you but because I like everything super
simple, I'm just going to add my name to that
preset. You can add yours, so when you actually be looking at those
presets, you will know... oh that's the one I just created. That's actually the
the one I'm going to be using over and over again. So I'm going to go ahead and
type in proxy 720 because that's the size of the video.
Zdenka and of course you can do proxy 720 John
or Martin or whatever name you have. The saved preset will show in the bottom
under preset browser. Now we created encoding preset. What I
have to do next is to create Ingest preset. Simply right
click on the proxy 720 Zdenka or your name
and create Ingest preset. I'm going to name the same.
Just add Ingest word to it, so proxy 720 Zdenka ingest.
Let's go below, select transcode files to destination,
choose format quicktime and preset select your
proxy 720 Zdenka and hit OK. Now you can see
your new Ingest preset below. Now, let's go back to Adobe Premiere Pro,
right click those files, select create proxies,
click on add Ingest preset and type it in the top corner search bar.
proxy 720 Zdenka Ingest or your name there. It shows here. Click
it and now it is here in the box in
destination select folder where you want your proxies, those
little files to be saved and hit ok and that's all. So now again
it's going to create those low resolution proxy files in a
background and once it is finished, just add those files
those high 4k files on a timeline and now when I click the proxy button. I
can visually see the copy word on my file so now I know
I'm actually looking at the proxies and now I can edit super fast as they
are automatically attached to large files. So next time you want to
create more proxies in your future for your
future projects, you don't have to go through all this
anymore because the preset will be already there.
So all you have to do is just import the videos into Adobe Premiere Pro,
right click, create proxies and you will see the preset
already there. This will save you a lot of time and surely did for me.
Now I have to just go and buy a new graphic card but that's a whole lot
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