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January 24, 2023
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Make proxies automatically get the correct aspect ratio

  • January 24, 2023
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When proxies have a different aspect ratio from the original, it creates all kinds of problems when scaling, aligning and positioning clips.

It seems like in 2018 it should be possible for Premiere to read the aspect ratio of each original clip, and auto-match it.
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Correct answer Jarle Leirpoll

Hi @Kevin-Monahan 
Since we've now gotten new Proxy sizes that's not "medium", "small" etc. – but "half res", "quarter res" etc., I think we'll run into the issue a lot less. I don't really know if making the proxies in a thrird-party app would still cause any problems, but at least for those of us who make our proxies in Premiere Pro, this is no longer an issue. 👍

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Known Participant
January 24, 2023
Yep, I would like to simply put my desired width (I make most of my proxies 1920) and have it automatically scale the height accordingly. If there's an extra row of pixels, just crop them, or offer the user suggestions on the next closest evenly divisible resolution.

This is what I do manually anyway, and once I do it for my main cameras (GH5 and GH5s) I don't have to do it again, but still a pain to figure out and create a new preset every time I edit footage from a new camera.
TaranVH
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
I think there are some technical difficulties involved with this one... but yes... having proxies at the wrong scale has caused me many problems, and resulted in me hardly using the feature.

While it may be difficult to create proxies in any given resolution, it should not be too difficult for those proxies to automatically stretch themselves into the correct aspect ratio.