Make proxies from already imported footage in Premiere Pro

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146 lessons / 17 hours 49 quiz questions 14 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Hi there, my name is Daniel Walter Scott & I’m an award winning Adobe Certified Instructor. Welcome to the Premiere Pro Advanced Course.

This course is aimed at people who already know the fundamentals of Adobe Premiere Pro. If you have developed your own way of doing things but you realise there are so many tools, updates & time saving techniques that you haven't had time to explore then this course is definitely for you.
• We look at the best productivity hacks & little known features to super speed your timeline editing. 
• We explore color management, color grading, color replacement & skin tone correction.
• You will master all the new Lumetri color methods and harness the power of scopes. 
• You will learn new ways to successfully create traditional & new style transitions. 
• You will quickly become a master at fixing shaky handheld and drone footage.
• There won’t be anything you can’t mask or blur.
• We will get your computer running at warp speed using Proxies, Scratch Disk & Cache management. 
• You’ll master high frame rate footage to enable you to produce spectacular slow motion video. 
• You will create high quality professional motion graphics & data driven infographics. 
• You’ll learn all about Premiere Pro’s responsive time and design tools so you can make graphics & animation once that can be used across multiple future productions. 
• You will learn file and footage techniques which will enable you to work with multiple editors. 
• Multi-camera editing will be a breeze. 
• You will learn stunning techniques to help clean up your audio by removing noise, hiss & echo. 
• Learn how to manipulate & extend your music in Premiere Pro & also in Adobe Audition. 
• You’ll learn which tools & techniques are best for removing the monotony of repurposing the same footage across multiple sizes for social media. 
• Learn about markers, subtitles and amazing plugins, 
• You will learn all the best tricks and settings which will enable you to get the most from your rendering in Premiere Pro and also in Adobe Media Encoder.   
We cover all these topics and more in this course. 
Take a look at the contents and read reviews from other students and you’ll see this is the course that will get you from adequate - to EXCELLENT in Premiere Pro.

In this course we use real world, practical projects and use exercise files which you can download and then work alongside me.

If you can’t remember the last time you sat down & went through the features & updates in Premiere Pro, let this course be your all-in-one professional development & upgrade.  

You owe it to yourself -  sign up and get ready to become a Premiere Pro Super Hero.
Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Transcript

Hey, in this video we are going to create our proxies. We're going to use method number 1. I call this the afterthought method. This is when you've got them all on the Timeline, and things are running slowly, and you think, "I better make some proxies." 


What are proxies again? I'll show you an actual example of what we're going to make in this video, proxies on, proxies off. It just makes a low quality version. Let's look at it at full view. You can't even tell from this distance away, but it makes your editing a whole lot faster, and you end up with a bunch of files that look like this. Original files, and then some proxy files, that are smaller, and easier for your machine to handle. All right, let's make 'em. 


Now that we know what a proxy is, creating one's really easy. So I've got our sequence here, actually you don't need a sequence, you just need to have a project, and have footage in it. So I'm going to-- you can do one at a time or select them all, right click any of them, go to 'Proxy', 'Create Proxies', easy. You can decide from the format, I'm on a Mac so I can use Quicktime, and maybe you prefer using ProRes or CineForm, one of that kind of-- like it's definitely going to lower the resolution.-- the pixel height and width. 


So this is 4K, this will make it, let's say-- I always use h.264, because it's quick and easy, and the computer can run it, and low, I think is 540 pixels across. This one here is kind of standard SD, and this is HD. So this is 720 and this is Full HD, and this is 1080p. You can decide the kind of sizes you want to use. Pick medium, if you're running on a really bad laptop, and it's terrible, pick low, it's up to you. You can go through and create-- 'Add Ingest Presets', we'll look at that later in the class, but for the moment we'll just use the drop downs. 


Now this does tend to change every time there's a new version of Premiere Pro, but there'll be a high, low, medium version of this. So you can play around with it, it's just going to plop it next to my original footage. I'm going to click 'OK', and medium code is going to open up in a second, I think. There it is, I wish they're called Proxy's placeholders, they seemed this scary, proxy seems, I don't know, technical. 


All right, here's media encoder, I kind of caught it in the act, it was just running in the background, I didn't notice it, and here it is, it's making all of these, can you see, it's kind of underscoring it with proxy. I'll go show you the actual files that it's making. All right, here it is. 


So this is my 'Exercise Files', on my Desktop, you'll find my 'Tourism Ireland', and all my footage is inside of 'Footage', and there's 'Proxy' folder, they've got the same name, except the hyphenated proxy, and you can see they're a lot smaller. I've already cut mine down to a small size, so let's pretend that was like 500 Megabytes, and it's down to 14 instead of just 13, because I already did some file savings, to make this course run nice, so it's not as dramatic here in this course, as it will be for your work. 


Now what happens in Premiere Pro, nothing's happened, absolutely nothing. Proxies are kind of happening in the background, but you're not actually using them yet. So if I play, it's still going to have an issue, is it? it's only going to half, and it's still having an issue. Cool, so to turn proxies on you need to go to this mad button over here. I don't know why they hide some buttons in here. The Button Editor, click on that little option, this pops up, and then you're like, "What do I do with this?" What you do is, you click, hold, and you are looking for the proxy guy, that's in there. It's a little-- it looks like that. Click, hold, and drag it, and drag it down to here, click 'OK', and now you've got those little proxies, off, proxies are on now. 


So low quality, high quality, low quality, high quality. Let's have a little look at it, so that you-- I can show it to you. So I'm going to use my Tilde key again, the little squiggly thing, to make it nice and full, and I'm going to zoom right in. So proxies, it's not the best footage, I know, to start with, again, just so file sizes are low, but let's look at this, proxies, not proxies, proxies, not proxies. 


So that's what it does, it just creates a placeholder, that's lower quality, so that you can, from this view out, it's really hard to tell that anything's changing, but your machine, with that on, blue's good, if you want to use proxies, that, when it's playing, it's going to play back nicely, nice and fast, because it's using really low stuff. If you're finding that the Medium still isn't working for you, go to Low, and it's going to look even worse, but it's going to play back nicely. 


So what happens when you-- I don't know, is it your first question, it's my first question, like what happens when I'm color grading, just turn it off. Turn it off, and when you're doing your color grading, do it to the color grading and then turn it back on to do your flowy editing awesomeness. 


All right, so I've made my proxies, and I can turn them on and off now, but when I hit 'Render', I've done my editing, it's great. I hit 'Render', it's always going to use my high quality version, not my proxy, they're just like intermediary things. 


All right, let's jump into the next video, we're going to look at, I don't know, I call it premeditated proxies, proxies for professionals, when you're actually doing it on purpose, rather than just kind of like, "Oh no, my laptop's dying, I need to do something about it." We're going to look at something called Ingesting.
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