Blackmagic Proxy Generator, How, Why, When? - Davinci Resolve TUTORIAL

00:00 Intro
00:58 Generating Proxies
02:30 Using Proxies
02:58 Colour Grading
03:29 File Management
04:01 Conclusion

Why do you need to use proxies, how do you make them and when should you used them. Learn how to use Blackmagic's Proxy Generator and how to use those proxies in Davinci Resolve.

Created by Team 2 Films.

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[Deep-Travel]

These are simply the BEST Davinci Resolve (or any NLE) tutorials. Period. You guys address things that are really important for editors. I look forward to each tutorial. THANKS!!!! and being selfish myself, keep them coming!

[Thingwithlegs]

Finally, someone on-point and no Hellofresh or Crypto inside commercials AAAHH! Love it.

[kapturelab]

Your delivery is very clear and to the point. No babbling. Very concise and digestible. Thank you.

[pauledwards]

Perfect, clear delivery both visually and verbally. Thank you.

[volts]

A superb overview of what proxies are and how to use them. Thank you so much.

[that_johnny_guy]

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[normanlang]

Great video. I also enjoyed Jim Robinson’s commentary. I haven’t used proxies. I edit BRaw and Prores out of the camera. But now, because you showed me how stupid simple it is and how much smaller the files are, I’m going to try it.

[OliKember]

So helpful, thanks very much Team 2! Brilliant overview. Hoping for more flavours of ProRes in the Proxy app in the future, like ProRes Proxy itself.

[laner]

Incredible quality of the tutorial. The beautiful lady makes it even better to watch. Thank you!

[michael-gdho]

Great video! Question is though, when would I choose a proxy over optimized media? Still a little confused about that. Thanks!

[anilaboutme]

Best tutorials! Easy to understand and unpretentious! 👍

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[JimRobinson-colors]

The proxy generator is soi far designed to be used in conjunction with BMD cloud and not for desktop usage. The files of choice in the proxy app are pretty much all long GOP and long GOP are generally delivery files, like one would render to upload to the internet or send to someone over the Internet to work with on a project. Long GOP ( h.264 or h.265 ) are one of the reasons people tend to make proxies in the first place. The highly compressed files require that your system unpacks that compression on every frame for playback. And because the playback needs to be continuous - the caching and decompression needs to be calculated ahead of the playhead in order to play smoothly when the playhead hits the frame.
So making long GOP for proxies on a desktop using the proxy app has only one benefit, and that's the building of the proxies in background.
The alternative is the way we were making them before, which is to set up te codec in the project manager and then in the Media bins - right click and choose "Generate Proxy Media". then go have lunch or take a break and when you come back the proxies are made.

Choosing a codec for use in editing : The files need to be of a less compressed type ( intermediate codecs - like ProRes or DnXHR etc.) In an editing program - we shouldn't be having to decompress each frame to playback the footage- this is kind of a waste of resources for your CPU and your GPU, to perform, before even starting to make edits. And then consider to do the decompression and even appear responsive that the system has to perform this operation many frames ahead so when the playhead gets there it's ready to play.
Almost all of us have noticed that sometimes it seems like that it starts playing fine then all of a sudden it starts to stutter - this is because the playhead while playing - caught up to the cache and then you are witnessing it caching as it goes. So the cache location is another consideration to speed up everything.
So until Blackmagic Design adds the appropriate codecs ( intermediate ) for use in the Proxy application, we should continue using the conventional proxy method for smooth playback. If your only concern is storage, than the "Delivery" files can work, but it is at the sacrifice of using precious system resources - just to play the video.

[movie-trailer]

Specifically and to the point. Everything's fine 👌

[RealNowTruth]

Helpful video. Here's my situation. Shot in ProResRaw but have Davinci Resolve. So converted to Cinema DNG Raw. I want my final output to be stellar 4K (3140x2160 or whatever that resolution is). But, in editing I tend to find rendering takes several passes and forever. Clips run fine once rendered but any change and it dogs out. So, please advise on a workflow, if you would. Wonder what my project and output and RAW setting should be, given all that.
Thanks!

[SCVisualArt]

The most professional and easy to the point tutorials. Thank you for your time and work. Can I ask, when using depthmap or power windows (magic mask) is it better to work on proxy mode or original video. Do I have better masking for example when using original clip, or it does not mater? Thanks

[GuinnessFL]

very helpful. While tis not hard to switch between "prefer proxies" and "prefer camera originals" is there a setting that allows you to select only use camera ordinals on Color Page?

[PibePepon]

do you recommend do this for stock media storage? It will applies to all projects if i have my media in PowerBins? 🙏

[Easy_Forex_Strategy]

Hello. Can you plz make a tutorial on how you made that list like thing in the beginning of the video.

[iy-]

Where is the generator (I used studio 18.6) ? And do you start making them before one imports to timeline?