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Inspiring
November 26, 2016
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Warp Stabilizer Disables Proxies

  • November 26, 2016
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Whenever I add warp stabilizer to a clip in Premiere, it stops using proxies altogether. I understand that stabilizing analysis needs to run on the original footage, not a proxy, but after analysis is complete, shouldn't proxies turn back on? Whether proxies are enabled or not, the original footage is shown on any clip with Warp stabilizer. And, even if Global FX Mute is on, the stabilization is removed but the original footage remains instead of the proxy. That prevents me from working without the proxies if the originals are on another drive, and seriously affects performance. I now just apply warp stabilizer as one of the last editing steps and then just grit my teeth. Is this function a bug or an intended feature? Why is warp stabilizer the only effect I've used that doesn't obey normal proxy mode and global FX mute?

    Correct answer Trent Happel

    Warp Stabilizer is among the special-case analysis effects that will display the Full Res (ignoring Toggle Proxies). There is a note of this in one of the Help docs.

    Adobe Premiere Pro Help | Ingest and Proxy Workflow in Premiere Pro CC 2015.3

    When you render Previews, Export Media or use certain Analysis effects (Warp Stabilizer, Rolling Shutter Repair, Morph Cut), Premiere Pro always uses and displays Full Res, regardless of the Toggle/Enable Proxies setting. The only exception is when you have Offline Full Res, but Proxy is Online, then Proxy is used.

    The current possible workarounds are to Offline your Full Res clips or disable Warp Stabilizer in the Effect Controls tab.

    6 replies

    Participating Frequently
    August 28, 2024

    Really would be great to have the global effects mute also disable warp stabilizer. Is this feature available yet?

    May 6, 2017

    Just found a bug where if you start warp stabilizer with the proxy toggle set to off or on, and then during analysis, change the toggle setting, the analysis freezes and the program becomes unresponsive.

    Inspiring
    November 29, 2016

    That all makes sense except for Global FX Mute. If it disables all effects, even master clip effects, shouldn't the stabilized clips revert to proxies, just like they would if you disable the effect individually in Effect Controls?

    Community Manager
    November 30, 2016

    Apologies, it appears that the last part of my response got cut off. I also consider the Global FX Mute an issue and it is already logged for developer investigation. The possible workarounds would also apply here.

    Trent HappelCommunity ManagerCorrect answer
    Community Manager
    November 28, 2016

    Warp Stabilizer is among the special-case analysis effects that will display the Full Res (ignoring Toggle Proxies). There is a note of this in one of the Help docs.

    Adobe Premiere Pro Help | Ingest and Proxy Workflow in Premiere Pro CC 2015.3

    When you render Previews, Export Media or use certain Analysis effects (Warp Stabilizer, Rolling Shutter Repair, Morph Cut), Premiere Pro always uses and displays Full Res, regardless of the Toggle/Enable Proxies setting. The only exception is when you have Offline Full Res, but Proxy is Online, then Proxy is used.

    The current possible workarounds are to Offline your Full Res clips or disable Warp Stabilizer in the Effect Controls tab.

    brandond14209903
    Participant
    June 5, 2019

    Hi there, I am having another warp stabilizer problem. When I add warp stabilizer to a file, it turns on the proxy and exports my low res proxy file as part of my finished sequence. I do I fix this?

    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    November 26, 2016

    Whether proxies are enabled or not, the original footage is shown on any clip with Warp stabilizer.

    That is correct. Just disable Warp in the Effect controls.

    Inspiring
    November 28, 2016

    The problem is I have sequences where most of the footage is stabilized, so the only way to enable or disable WS on the whole sequence is to simply remove the effect from all the footage, which loses the analysis data

    Legend
    November 26, 2016

    Are you saying all proxies are disabled, or only those clips with WS applied?

    Inspiring
    November 28, 2016

    Only those with WS applied