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December 22, 2020
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Apple ProRes 422 missing Premier Pro when making proxies

  • December 22, 2020
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Hello everyone! I'm trying to make a proxy with the 1280 x 720 Apple ProRes, but to my surprise, it is not available to me.

Good to note that I do not have Final Cut Pro installed and I don't have motion.

I recently fresh installed everything on my mac trying to get 2 partitions going for another operating system (Mavericks) for use with a legacy product from Serato that is not supported on anything above that OS. in the past I downloaded a trial version of Final Cut which I guess helped me (without knowing) to obtain the codecs. But since my fresh install, I've avoided installing FCPX.

Now that I've discovered that in order to get the codecs I need, this pro software needs to be installed. I searched for another alternative and found out you can download the pro video formats and unpack the PKG. But after unpacking and transferring the codecs nothing really changed. I downloaded the Pro Video Formats 2.0.4 (due to the fact that the newer ones require Metal... more on my mac in a minute...)

currently, I don't know what else to do and I'm thinking of just giving up and downloading the free trial of FCPX.

The reason I'm trying to get this method to work is because of this tutorial.

Slow Computer? EDIT SUPER FAST! Premiere Pro Proxies Workflow

And these are the resources I was using to get the codecs to work without Final Cut Pro

INSTALL THE APPLE PRORES CODEC WITHOUT FINAL CUT OR PROAPPS

and here are my specs (please don't laugh)

Early 2011 13" Macbook Pro 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7
High Sierra 10.13.6
Adobe Premiere Pro 14.7.0 (build 23)

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3 replies

Participant
December 22, 2020

am I missing something, is it a setting I need to check?

R Neil Haugen
Legend
December 23, 2020

For some reason they thought it would be visually cleaner/easier if they listed a general size rather than the pixel count.

 

ProRes Low proxies are 1024x580, Medium is 1280x720. They are produced really quick, and you can select one clip, right-click/proxy/create proxie, when MediaEncoder finishes in a few seconds, click on the blue file name in that app, it opens the Finder/Explorer window, and you can check file properties.

 

Personally, I'd prefer simply that they are named for format/codec at framesize X. Ah well.

 

Neil

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Participant
December 23, 2020

wow! that had me scratching my head for a while. lost my day in this, feel a little embarrassed really. Thanks a lot, kind sir!  

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 22, 2020

1280x720 is not missing. If you just do one clip with the available presets you will see.

Participant
December 22, 2020

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 22, 2020