SPEED UP Your Video Editing With This Workflow Trick in Premiere CC

well hey everybody I'm Nathaniel Dodgson from Tuck vidcom and today in this Adobe Premiere Pro tutorial I'm super pumped about it because we're gonna talk about proxies that might not sound like anything important to you but it may be is the single best way to make your editing workflow in Premiere Pro so much faster and so much less stressful the way it works is you take your huge high resolution files like 4k files you make them really tiny or you let Premiere Pro make them really tiny you edit all those little tiny files together so in Premiere can move really quickly and then when you're ready to export boom Premiere Pro swaps in the high resolution stuff so your system is never bogged down it's light it's fast it's easy it is incredible and amazing and wonderful if you do enjoy this tutorial well make sure you subscribe to this channel so you can check out all the premiere pro tutorials that have come before of course you see this one and you'll never miss any Premiere Pro or video editing or After Effects tutorial or you stinkin name it in the future let's jump into Premiere Pro right now and check this thing out so well actually I said Premiere Pro let's hop into Photoshop for a quick second and talk about how this process actually works so it begins with your media car with your full high resolution file maybe a shot in like 4k because you want a future-proof a project but you only need to deliver in 1080p and you're working on an old computer so it's really slow well what this process is gonna do here is allow us to import these files through Premiere Pro and premier Pro will split well not really split the file but it will take and it will save the high resolution or a copy of the file a high resolution copying right off the camera like if it's 4k this will be a 4k video clip being saved to the hard drive but it will also save a proxy file a very low resolution highly compressed file of the same exact clip onto a different place on that same hard drive or maybe just a totally different hard drive this can be great if you want to edit on the go and you want to throw these low resolution files onto like a little external hard drive and take off on you know bring it on your flight or take it on the road or whatever and the beautiful thing about this here is when you connect these back into Premiere Pro a premiere pro knows they're connected together so it knows that when you reduce you're working on these low resolution files they they're all connected to these high resolution files and that's kind of important because number one you can disconnect the high resolution files and your proxies will still be there in Premiere Pro so you'll still be able to edit even if you aren't like linked or have that hard drive plugged into your system that has those high resolution you know master copies you can edit your film in Premiere Pro as you always would and then when you go ahead and export your video from Premiere Pro to you know full 4k uhd or even if you're just you know going for some crazy raw video when you export from Premiere Pro it will automatically swap in those higher-quality clips and you will be good to go of course those clips need to be online and what that means is that hard drive that contains those high resolution clips will need to be plugged into your computer so Premiere Pro can find those high quality clips so super duper amazing and useful workflow and it's so easy to do here so we're gonna jump into Premiere and I'm gonna show you how this works now out here on my finder I have what would be my camera's SD card and on here I have for 4k shots I have a folder for high resolution clips and a folder for proxies we're gonna cover three different ways to create proxies here in Premiere Pro and I think you're gonna like all of them so the first way is simply to import the footage right into Premiere so I'll grab all these clips here and I will just drag them and drop them here into my project bin and once they're over here on my project van I can just drag them out here onto my timeline I've got a I've got this time on here called proxy the sequence I should say and they're all four of my clips are and they're all you know 4k if i zoom in here I say you know is set this to 100% and also over here set my preview quality to full so I can really get an idea of what's going on with these videos in fact you can hit the wrench and choose paused resolution make sure that's full and also full for the playback resolution great so I'm seeing my video here well let's say this for case stuff is just really bogging the system down it's not working for us so I'm only gonna do this to one clip here but you would do it with all of your clips we're gonna select this jib shot clip which is the first clip in our sequence we're gonna right click on it and we're going to choose proxy and here we have this option to you name it it create proxies now here what we can do is choose a format I'm gonna go with h.264 super compressed really works well I'm gonna go with just 720p generally what you want to do if you're choosing a preset you've got tons of options or more than just you know 1 2 or 3 options you want just make sure that the aspect ratio is proper if you're shooting like I think it's called DCI 4k footage which is like 4096 pixels by 2160 instead of like the 39 40 by 2160 that's a slightly different aspect ratio and if you create a proxy you know at like 720p with footage that's a little bit wider in terms of the aspect ratio it's gonna either be a little stretched or have some black bars and that gets added in there so you know just be be wary of that and you may need to work with this adding an ingest preset we're gonna talk about that later I don't want to get bogged down with that now for this I'm gonna go 720p h.264 and then the destination you can choose to plop it right where next to the original media in a proxy folder which premier will create a new folder or you can choose to save it where you want to save it now considering the fact that the this video that I'm importing is on the camera SD card I actually want to choose my own location and I would browse and I'm right out here where I would choose my proxies fought my proxies folder yep select that folder that's where I want my proxy to be saved now I'm gonna hit OK when I do this you can see it's gonna say creating proxy jobs and what's happening behind the scenes is this application called Adobe Media encoder is getting ready to fire up this is where that file is going to be processed here in a moment you can see there it is it's come in we see the status happening over here now over here in Premiere Pro we have this new window under window progress this is newer to Premiere Pro and we can see the progress of that clip if we'd selected all four clips and made proxies for all four video clips well we would see four separate files showing up here and they would just go through one file at a time now even while this is happening we could come in here and start editing our video and everything would be great it'd be wonderful and when we're ready to swap this video clip with the proxy we could do it seamlessly and not have to worry about losing our cuts losing transitions losing anything like that the progress is done it's completed now how do I know like is this the proxy file or is it still a full 4k file well this is still the full 4k file we can swap between proxies by using a little trick over here so you got this button editor you hit the plus we're gonna add buttons and there's a button right down here called toggle proxies so let's click and drag that and just add it to our toolbar of little icons here and when we're when we have a clip selected or highlighted like the gym shot clip here all we need to do is say hey look toggle with my proxy and by the way I know that there's a proxy for this clip by right-clicking on the clip and choosing properties and I can see right there proxy media right so I know I've got a proxy here whereas if I come out over here to the second clipper I didn't create a proxy and go to properties I don't have all that proxy information so what I can do I can just select this clip and I can choose to swap in the proxy clip and you can see the quality got quite degraded I don't know if it's coming through on the video but it went from being a nice sharp video clip to pretty bad and the interesting thing about this is let's just let's just make a couple cuts here on our video right and then I'm just gonna ripple delete that so now we have two video clips I could select these video clips I could toggle the proxies and now just like that we have a high resolution footage in there so even if you have cuts and stuff like that made with a clip you can quickly swap in or swap out the proxies to make it faster to work with this very high resolution of video footage now I know we are pounding a ton of information right now this stuff is so important and this is just the first way and what do want to show you here too under Premiere Pro preferences we can come down here to media and we can choose to turn on enable proxy so if you're having some issues with proxies just come in here and make sure you have that enabled and that all that'll be a nice helpful thing for you to have there I'm gonna undo to get rid of those cuts and that ripple delete that I just did before I want to in fact I'm gonna delete all four of these clips and I'm gonna delete them all from my project bin as well because I want to show you a different way to import video and create proxies and it's using the Media Browser I'm just gonna drag this over here on top of my sequence just so I can really see what's going on here so this little area right here this is like a little breakdown of our computer hard drive I'm gonna bring my project bin back over here so we can see my files these are the files in this premier project over here this is the stuff on our hard drive outside of the project and what I've done is I have navigated here to the folder on my desktop premiere tutorial and then the camera SD card clip now a cool thing is if we get under the proxy folder there is that proxy resize the video clip that we created before so I'm actually gonna jump out to my finder and I'm just gonna delete that real quick just to knock it out of there and get it out of our way there it is I can just delete that BAM go on you can see it disappears here in Premiere as well because this is just mirroring what's on our hard drive all right camera SD clip I can select all of these video clips I can choose this little ingest option turn that on and then he the little wrench - you can see open the ingest settings this is such cool stuff we have this little drop-down menu where we can choose to just copy the footage in but really what I'm most interested in is both copying the footage in and creating the proxies so remember we're copying the footage from the SD card or just the media on which you're shooting your movie or your video or whatever you're copying it to your hard drive or a hard drive and you're also creating a second copy which is this low res proxy file so we have these two options the primary destination and the proxy destination and if we jump back to photoshop for a second up here this would be our primary destination right this would be the high-res copy that's being saved and then the proxy destination is where we're saving the low res copy all right so that's kind of important to note now you could save them both on the same hard drive they but you know I tend to prefer saving my stuff around them as many different hard drives as I can it's just the way I like to work alright so from the preset drop-down I'm once more gonna go with a 720p h.264 that's great a primary destination I'm gonna choose the location and I'm gonna make the location here within the premiere tutorial the high-res clips so this would be like the project folder where I'm saving the master high-resolution clips for that video or movie project that I'm working on right and then the proxy destination this will be more of like an editing destination maybe this will be a network drive or where a bunch of editors are having access to these proxy clips to make the edits and work together on it so there's my proxy folder I'm gonna choose that and then I would hit OK all we have to do at this point is right-click on these clips or we could honestly just drag them right to the project but we'll right-click and just choose to import them and now these ingest settings will be applied to all four of these clips as they import and it looks like nothing's happening right away but if we open up the progress panel here give it a second that's the clip that we created a proxy of before you just got to give it a minute it's got to chug through these big 4k files but these files will populate here into Adobe Media encoder and we'll get the progress updates here in Premiere as well so you can see here the jobs are showing up and if I pop back out to Premiere Pro they're you know getting ready to go here that all looks great now the great thing about this particular workflow is it's automatically now going to be creating proxy files for all the videos that I'm importing into my Premiere Pro project but with the high res files here ignore the one that appears to be offline it's probably just because media encoder is cranking through it with these high res files I can begin dragging them in editing these and then when I need when the proxies are ready and I can you know I'm ready to swap the proxies I've got that little toggle proxies button so I can just drop the lower resolution clips in there so I have a nice editable timeline that I can move through very quickly and it's just really a great thing to work with especially as your project begins to kind of bloat and balloon and your color grading and adding effects and you know blurring and zooming or transitions or any number of things that you may be doing to your video project and there you go you can see Adobe Media encoder has to finish the processing it wasn't too bad it plowed through we've got our video clips here and they're all ready if I select the Staten Island Ferry I right-click I choose properties and you're gonna see here yep we got proxy media great so we have our proxies for all four of these 4k clips and we're ready to work even if we have a slower computer we can just begin to work with the proxies and like I said when you export your file Adobe Premiere Pro will automatically go and say well you obviously want the high-res files we can swap them out alright so let's talk about the third way to import and create proxies and this might be the coolest one yet because we're gonna create our own preset here in Adobe Media encoder I'm gonna select these clips here I'm just gonna delete them yep I want to get rid of all that stuff I want to clean this thing out and what I want to do is come over here to the preset browser wherever that is in your particular workspace in the media encoder go ahead and hit the drop-down and we have two types of presets we're actually gonna create one of each but we're gonna begin with our encoding preset I'm gonna select that and the first thing I'll do is I'll give it a name so we'll just call this you know h2 or h.264 will say UHD 4k just so we know that we got the aspect ratio or maybe well you know we'll stick with UHD because that way it's not confused with that the DCI 4k footage and then we'll specify that this is like 360p so we'll make this a very very small video file and what we'll do is we'll come down here down here to video I don't want to match the source for this I want to make the height 360 because that's gonna be the 360 P the width ends up being 640 that's perfect we can we'll scroll down a little bit further the bitrate of EB our one pass is great but I want to reduce the target bitrate to like one I want the quality to be super super low I want these conversions to happen quickly and I want the resulting file to be small that means it's gonna be kind of low quality yes but it will be fast it will be lightweight and that's exactly what I want one to plop in the big 4k full res footage I can do that but when I want to edit and move fast I'll be able to do that here I also want to come over here to the effects tab this is some cool stuff you could apply a lookup table if you're working with like log footage or really flat footage you want to apply a specific LUT I don't want to do it here I want to by the way you could also overlay an image which could be like your watermark if you want to do something like that this would only happen obviously this is a preset for the proxy files so that might be interesting if you are exporting rough cuts they are sending to a client I'm gonna go with a name overlay this is pretty cool and what we'll do is we'll yeah we'll take the source file name and I'm gonna give it a suffix of underscore and then all caps I'm gonna take a type proxy and I want the position I like to go either bottom center or like bottom bottom right in this case I'll go bottom center will keep this easy you can choose an offset and a size a size of 15 is a bit big it will knock it down to like 12 but that's about good the opacity maybe we can bump it up just a notch to pull it up to 50 and then sometimes it's also helpful to have a timecode overlay as well so we can throw that in there this will probably make like top center if we got the other one at bottom Center and we made the other one a size of 12 so let's make this one a size of 12 with an opacity of 50 I think that's all the changes we want to make here there's a lot of stuff you can come in here and check out but we're just looking to to have a good solid way of identifying these proxy files and this is the best way that I've seen it done so far so I'm gonna go ahead and hit OK and just as a quick preview if you want to see exactly what this preset looks like let's up pop back out to our finder and let's drag not a proxy and let's drag one of our high res clips in let's grab like one of these I'm just gonna drop it in the queue you're gonna see it's gonna bounce around and you know give me give me this little you know rigmarole but we have our file in there and we can just drag that preset over we can drop it right on the file and then when we click on the preset that we get a preview and you can see here's the file name and it's far too large so that's good that I did this because I got this massive file name so I probably should make this size a little bit smaller so the advantage here is that with this text-overlay we'll be able to tell when we're working with the proxy and when not in Adobe Premiere Pro very easily let's right click here on our preset and choose preset settings and what we'll do is we'll come down here in effects we will go to name overlay and we'll change the size to like 600 we do something like that and then we'll do a timecode of maybe 9 will still make the timecode a little bigger we'll hit okay and now let's click on this and just see what this looks like so there we go jib shot over a bantam lol blah underscore proxy no doubt in our mind we can go ahead okay and at this point we could export this file but that's not it I want to remove my video clip here yep we go ahead and remove it that's fine let's go ahead and create an ingest preset so I'm gonna drop down here and choose create ingest preset you'll see we've got this similar looking but not quite the same ingestion and we can call us whatever we want so again I'm gonna go h.264 UHD I'm sorry UHD at 360 P and then we can even call we could even say like titles right just something that gives us information sometimes people would say burn in and down here we'll choose to copy the files to destination we can verify with the MT 5 comparison we'll also transcode the files to destination and here's what we'll choose the format of h.264 and there's our preset that we just made h.264 UHD 360p that's great and the last thing when you do here is browse for a location on our hard drive where we'll save the high resolution files so I'm gonna jump into my finder and from here I'll choose high-res Clips this is where I'm gonna be saving I'm gonna change this honestly on every ingestion because like you saw before we manually choose where we save the you know the high res file and then the same for down here the transcoded or proxy file we'll go ahead and choose the proxy folder but this will probably change with you know every project to work on that's fine well go ahead and hit OK here and you can see now we have this ingest preset we can tell that it's an injustice reset because here in the format column well it right there we can see ingest now we want to save this out to our desktop or somewhere so we're gonna export this preset and that'll be the icon with the folder with the arrow on the far right go ahead and click on that and I'm just going to navigate to my desktop and we'll save this we'll just save it as h.264 UHD 360 titles I'm gonna choose save you can really you know put it wherever you want put it somewhere safe on your hard drive though then what we would do is come back here to Premiere Pro and we would jump back to our Media Browser I've already deleted those video clips and the old proxies and all that stuff and we would tick on ingest we would go to our ingest settings here and here we would choose add ingest preset so go add ingest preset I would pop out to my hard drive and right there we can see our dot epr file I'm gonna choose to open that and you can see h.264 UHD 360p titles and then here again I'm just gonna choose where the as we did set these but let's just place the high-res clips where we went the high-res clips and letting you know if this was a new project we would be placing it where we you know in our high res folder or a proxy folder as we need and there we go and I could hit okay and then we can just right click on these badboys import them and Premiere Pro and Adobe Media encoder are gonna go through all that rigmarole that we just went through ten twelve minutes ago when we talked about ingesting the media through media browser as well but now we're doing it with our own custom ingest preset that's gonna overlay all that information and you're gonna see just how helpful this is gonna be when we're working to make it just blatantly clear no need to scale to 100% or work with full quality we're gonna be able to tell that absolutely we are working with the proxy so here's the progress folder we've got one file that showed up and begun working and over here in Adobe Media encoder we'll probably start to see some files showing up as well and there we go all of the files are created all the proxies are created cool thing about this here if I drag all these files out and just drop them on my timeline right I can begin to cycle through I'm gonna just fit these and I am going to set them to half or maybe even quarter quality we can see we've got our Clips here there's the the wedding clip of better Lake Tahoe clip or Staten Island clip and our jib shot clip there that aren't previewing for us very well because my computer right now is bogged down so let's go ahead and just begin swapping in the proxy clips so let's do it for the wedding shot here you can see that yeah the quality has definitely degraded quite a bit but very clearly we can see it's a proxy you know shot because it's that low quality and all of the overlays you can really do it with the with with all of these so let's just select all these clips and we'll choose to toggle the proxies here but yeah we've got the proxy there we've got the Staten Island proxy and we've got the jib shot over the abandoned home proxy as well and we know beyond a shadow of a doubt of a doubt that it is the proxy because we have all of this overlay it's just such a beautiful thing it really really is and when you're ready to export like I said Premiere Pro will automatically swap in the high resolution and good good good stuff but you'll be able to work with the fast the lightweight files very very easily in Premiere Pro so I know it's been like a 20 minute or so kind of master class on these proxies but I really wanted to take a deep dive into it because I mean I find this stuff really interesting I think it supercool in fact let me go back to the computer screen for another second let's do a little real comparison here let's look at the ha let's look at the clips right on the camera card I'm gonna check this out we got 160 570 168 129 megabytes and let's compare it to the proxies so I can just click right here double click to get into the proxies and we'll view this and you can see here 2.1 megabytes 2.2 megabytes 2 megabytes a meg and a half these files are tiny especially compared with that original file size so you can see how working with these proxies it's just gonna be so much faster it's so much easier on your computer so much lighter weight you know the whole thing and as your projects grow and balloon and expand and like I said before blurring and color grading transitions and 100 others different things that you can be doing titles and lower thirds and all that stuff as your project begins to kinda get swell up this helps keep things light weight and move them fast fast fast fast fast fast which is exactly what we want so for working with proxies and just working and editing faster in Adobe Premiere Pro guys that's it get it got it good Nathaniel Dodson Tut vidcom I'll catch you in the next one and before you go make sure you subscribe to my channel for more great tutorials every day also by my course it helps us do what we do and this channel is supported by viewers just like you you can also just click the thumbnail and watch 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Length: 21min 27sec (1287 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 27 2017