- 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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