Looking for a Workflow that Can Create, *Rename* and Attach Proxies

[Devyn Brugge]

I am attempting to create proxies for a feature film. The clips in the project are straight from the camera, so there are a lot of duplicate names.

I recently attempted to create Proxies via Premiere's proxy workflow (Right Click > Create Proxies).

This would be ideal, but I found that when I attached the proxies on another system, Premiere attached the wrong proxies to the source clips. I was aware this could be a problem, but was hoping that Premiere would look at other metadata information (Clip Duration, etc.) to determine which Proxies belong to which clip.

Has anyone got a simple enough workflow to take the clips already in my project and to rename them so I can make the proxy method work?

[excited_Genie16B8]

The simplest might just be to recreate the proxies on the other system.

[Trevor_Asq]

The ingest/proxy workflow for Premiere is pretty new and relatively little used at this point IMO. (Relative to avid offline/online workflows).

I think you should reach out to Adobe support because they should know the real world problems (also submit a bug report) and they may even have solutions.

i présumé you can’t get the camera dept to generate unique names for clips to help you?

You could see if there’s a way of adding unique ’reel numbers’ to your clips before creating the proxies, and if those reel numbers can be used for linking proxies.

The ‘reel’ is something that has unique timecodes - so if shooting time of day give all clips from same canera on same date the same reel.

I have this same issue (duplicated file names C0001 etc) in an Offline/Online project I work on. Workaround there is to assign a unique reel number to each master ‘tape’ before generating the proxies - which meant a bit of prep at ingest time but the conform (in Resolve) was very quick & had no issues with linking at all.

The big advantage, as I see it, to the Adobe workflow is it speeds up editing, but you can set the previews and/or exports to be full resolution.

(Avid have had this capability - dynamic link - for years, but kept it limited to users with Interplay)