Can you cut down save time by using proxies somehow?

Question

Do you know if converting a large (like hour plus timeline/sequence) of clipped up and warp stabilized footage into proxies could somehow reduce the save and auto-save time? Right now the Pr project is 354,808 KB in size. Can you work with proxy only files in a seperate sequence and have the edits made there affect the original media sequence so the proxy sequence can save much much quicker? I'm around a full minute per save right now which sucks massively. I imagine once I create proxies for this sequence which is already taking a long time to save, it will only be larger with the proxies?

Also, is there anything I should be aware of when creating and editing with prores low quality proxies like issues scaling and rotating footage while in proxy? I saw a comment about it on a youtube video but didn't understand if it would apply to the proxy and original footage I will be editing with.

MyerPj · Answer

So the proxies are not entered into the project, you'll find no rows for them. The proxies are 'attached' to the clips and you can turn on/off use proxies at will.

Productions are what you are basically describing. You can edit a project with no media rows at all. You can have your media in one project in the production, and just drop those onto a timeline in the editing/sequence project and you can create your sequence without any media being in the project (only the non-visual links to the media project/files). Proxies in productions work fine.

As for warp. I suggest you warp in AE and export a ProRes file and use that in Premiere.

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