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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