All language subtitles for 4. Proxies Media Tab Kolder Creative

So proxies are

basically just low resolution
copies of your main media.

Now, the reason we want to make proxies

is to make it easier
for your editing program

to playback your footage
in real time, in your timeline.

A lot of the time

you might be working with a bunch
of different cameras and codecs,

and some codecs are going to be easier
for your computer to read than others.

So it can be smart to create proxies
for those harder to read files

so that you don't experience any lag
when editing.

In Da Vinci, you were able to select the
resolution and the format of our proxies

so that you can control
how much space they take up

and how easy they will be
for your computer to read.

You also have the option to choose
where to save these proxies and easily

hand them over along with

all of your other original media
to other computers or other editors

so that they can also use
those same proxies.

You also don't even have to make proxies
within Da Vinci.

You can use another software
like Adobe Media Encoder,

or you can even get your camera
to record proxies

internally at the same time
as it's recording the original media.

And then you can just link
to those proxies

so you don't even need to spend time
making proxies.

My Sony A7, S3
and A1 give me the option to simply

heinously record proxies at the same time
as the main footage.

Now, I use proxies all the time,
especially on big projects,

because I find that things
can get sluggish

when my timeline starts to get very
cluttered with tons of clips and effects.

Now, if you're just working
on something short and not that complex

and you have a decent computer, then you
probably won't even have to make proxies.

I've also found that

Da Vinci can handle certain formats
so much easier than Premiere Pro.

So with things like drone footage
and GoPro footage,

I don't really even need to make proxies
for those files.

Whereas when I was editing in Premiere,

there was no way I could even playback
GoPro footage without dropping frames.

So I'm obviously really, really happy
to see this major performance

boost in Da Vinci.

But like I said before,
if I'm working on a big project,

I'll still make proxies of pretty
much everything in my media pool.

That way
I have the option to switch to proxies

and get smoother playback
if I ever need to.

So if you are limited on space,

you might only want to create proxies
for the media that absolutely needs it.

Now, the one big thing

about making proxies in Da Vinci

is that you can't continue to edit
while you're generating proxies.

So if you have a lot of media
that you need to proxy,

it would be smart to leave it all
going overnight

or at a time that you don't need
to be editing that way.

When it's time to edit,
your proxies are ready to go

and you can fly through your timeline
without a problem.

Personally, I like to create proxies
at the end of each shoot day

and I don't wait
until the end of the entire shoot.

That way, once I'm done

filming, I need to proxy the last days
worth of footage and I'm good to go.

So with that
being said, let's jump into Da Vinci.

I'm going to show you guys
exactly how I make proxies.

All right.

So we're in our media pool
here, and I want to create a proxy file

for every single piece of media
that we have within this folder over here.

So you think that you can right
click on the folder and select generate

proxy media, but that is not an option.

You have to actually select
the media itself.

You can select folders.

So what we're going to want to do
is just go over here

to the left side of our media pool
and what we can do is select

the top folder here, hold shift,
and then select the bottom one.

That way we have all of those folders
selected and it's going to show us

every single clip
within all of those folders.

This is one way to be able to view

every single clip within our project.

So now what we can do is hit command
A that's going to select

everything in our media pool.

We can

right click and we can select
generate proxy media.

Now, before we do
that, you might be asking yourself, okay,

how do we know what resolution the proxy
media is going to be at and what format?

Well, like we learned before,
we can choose those settings

in the project settings right here,
that's down here in the bottom right

corner of this little gear icon or shift
nine on our keyboard.

It's going to open up
our project settings.

And down here, under the master settings,
we have optimize media and render cache

so we can choose what resolution
we want our proxy media set up.

So in this case, we can choose half.

That's what I usually work with and I like
to work in HD six four on my MacBook.

It does work fine if you are running on
a slower computer, you can choose Prores.

Prores is going to be a more uncompressed
format, meaning that

the computer has to do less work to read
the file.

264 is more compressed,
so I usually just stick with that.

That's been working great for me

and that's pretty much it.

These are the settings for the proxies

and we can also choose
where we want to store that proxy media.

And we've already done that
so we don't have to worry about that.

So let's click
Save and we're going to go back here.

We're going to select everything, command
a and we can do the same thing again

right click and we are going to select
generate proxy media.

You're going to get this generate proxy
media window here

and it's going to start going through
and rendering out every single file.

So in this case, generating proxies
would take a very long time for this.

So this is something that I would do
before I go to sleep.

So I wake up the next morning
and all the proxies are finished.

So when I was actually working on this
project, I would be importing my clips

at the end of each day
and creating proxies for just that day.

You don't have to create proxies
at the end of the entire shoe.

You can very easily update
your project file at the end of each day

with the new clips and create proxies
for just those new clips.

That's the process I typically use
and is the one that I use for this one

plus project.

That way, when we were completely done
shooting, I didn't even have to go through

the process of creating proxies
for everything.

I only had to create proxies
for that last day.

And then when we were done shooting,

there were proxies
for every single piece of media.

Now, even though I press Cancel,

DaVinci has already started making
the folder structure for all the proxies,

and basically it will maintain the same
folder structure as our original media,

but it's going to fill those folders
with proxy media

instead of our original media.

So let's just look at the project files
here.

So let's go into The DaVinci
Resolve Project files.

We'll go into our working folders here,
and if we go into proxies,

we can see that
it's created a proxy media folder here.

Now we can open that

and we have the same folder
as our original project folder here.

So it's going to save
that same folder structure

that we have in our original project.
Let's open that.

We can see it has video and then in video
it has the first day of the entire shoot.

So Da Vinci is going to create
the same folders for our entire project.

And here within each one of these folders,
it's going to have the proxy media.

So in this case,
it already generated one of the proxies.

So this is a low resolution
of the original media.

So I just want to give you guys an example
of what proxy media

in my timeline plays back
like versus the original media.

So if you could see in my timeline,
I've generated proxies for these clips

right here.

Now, if I go up to playback and turn off
use proxy media if available, I'll

take all this, drag it into my timeline
and let's just scrub through here.

Now we can see that it's not bad,

but it's clearly skipping points

and it's not an exact playback
of where the play head is.

Now, if I turn on use proxy media,
if available,

it's significantly increases
the performance.

It's like wherever the player head is, I'm
seeing that exact frame

and it is really awesome to be able

to flow through your timeline like this
so seamlessly without any drop frames.

And we can barely even tell the resolution
change between the proxies

and the original.

If I zoom in a lot here
and I turn off and I turn off the proxies,

we can see

that they're honestly isn't even that big
of a visual difference.

It's very hard to tell
which ones are proxy, which one isn't.

We could see
just by the change in the grain,

there's a bit of a difference,
but it's pretty minimal.

Now, once you've actually generated
the proxy media, how are you going to know

if Da Vinci is using the proxy media
or the originals?

A lot of the time it can be hard to tell.

Even when you're working at half
the resolution,

the proxy media can still look
pretty good.

And the only way that you can really tell
the difference is if you zoom in.

So how do you really know

for sure that you're using proxy media
or your original media?

Well, if we go up to our playback
menu up here, we can see that

we have this option
use proxy media if available.

When this is checked,
it will always use proxy media.

If there is proxy media generated
for the current clip, If there isn't, then

it's not going to use proxy media and it's
going to be using the original clip.

Well, that is also not good enough for me.

I'd like to know
which files in my media pool

have proxy media generated for them
and which ones don't.

So the way that we can do that is to right

click up here in this column area
and we can select proxy.

That's an option right here.

So if we select that now,

we have a new column that says proxy,
and it's going to tell us

if our clip in our media pool

has a proxy created for it or not.

So we can see because we didn't
let those proxies generate

all of these are still set to none.

But if you actually go through the proxy
generation process, you'll be able to see

which videos actually have proxies
and which ones don't.

This is especially helpful

when you're not generating proxies
for your entire project.

Let's say that you're working
with different formats

and there's one format
specifically that doesn't work

well in your timeline, and you just want
to generate proxies for that one camera.

What you could do is just select
that one folder, generate proxies,

and when you're viewing everything
like this,

if you want to see which clips
have proxies and which ones don't,

you can just check this column right here
and you'll be able to clearly tell

which ones have proxies
and which ones don't.

Now, last thing I want to mention is

when you are getting
to the coloring stage of your edit,

you want to make sure
that you turn proxies off

or if you choose to keep them on,
just keep that in mind

because a certain grade can look different
on a proxy than your original media.

So personally,
when I get to the color page

a lot of the time, I will keep proxies on,
but I'll turn them off

every once in a while
just to make sure that the colors

aren't drastically different.
Or my final image

doesn't look a lot different
than what I'm seeing on the proxies.