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May 22, 2022
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Create proxies of just footage on the timeline

  • May 22, 2022
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All the research I've done on proxies involves making proxies of the entire source file(s). What I'm trying to do is make a proxie out of just the footage on my timeline, not the source files themselves. Is this possible? I'm going to be using a remote editor soon but I'll be doing the "cut down" process myself so 99% of the source footage won't be needed by my editor. Can I make a proxie of just the timeline footage? If not, the only alternative I can see is exporting the rough cut and then sending him that and the timeline and then placing the export on top of the timeline so they can see where the cuts were, but this feels like a workaround. It doesn't even necissarily need to be a proxy, if I could export just the roughcut to use as the "source file" for the editor but somehow keep the timeline for them to see.

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    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    May 23, 2022

    Use the "render & replace" option, selecting the sequence as the source, and also setting some handles. Use the format/codec you want. Then copy and send those to your assistant.

     

    You can go to the timeline then and right-click 'restore unrendered' or something like that, and get the originals showing on the timeline.

     

    Neil

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    Inspiring
    May 25, 2022

    Maybe I lack understanding with how rendering works but I thought a render would only stay that way until edited, so if I rendered and sent it to an editor and he sent it back after altering it, premiere would know how to revert to the source file with that edit? I've only heard of render and replace being used for AE to premire workflow and that was only when the edit was complete.

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    May 25, 2022

    Render and replace from AfterEffects is a different action. That means that Ae creates an actual "physical" video file via the export process to replace the comp on the Premiere timeline. So there's no longer any comp 'there'.

     

    Render & Replace on a PrPro sequence takes the clip 'there' ... and with effects applied if you want ... and makes a new 'physical' video file on disc. It replaces the original clip on the sequence. However, you can "restore unrendered" with an R&R on a sequence, and Premiere goes back to using the original file.

     

    R&R has many uses ... for instance, to bake in Warp or other heavy effects so that both playback and exports of the sequence are made faster. To make 'clips' with effects applied that you can send to other applications.

     

    Neil

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