Create proxies of just footage on the timeline

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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.

[R Neil Haugen]

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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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]

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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Yeah, I frequently render heavily edited sections of my timeline for faster playback but I didn't realize you could render the files and then send them with a timeline to someone else. I know I keep asking the same thing but I want to make sure before I waste my editor's time, so if I render the timeline and send him the rendered files and the project file, he can then edit these files and send them back and I can "un-render" these files and premiere will give me the source files with his edits on them?

[R Neil Haugen]

I'm not sure if that would work ... I think it would be wise to do a test project and see. If it does, cool.

There is of course the old online/offline/relink process when working with proxies only on a remote setting, but that's not with rendered files with baked in effects.

But if I'm using R&R to say bake in Warp prior to doing color or time work, I will not be going back ever to the original files. Unless I'm completely rebuilding that area.

Neil