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Let's. Talk. About. Proxies! If your footage is chugging on your system or you're having troubles scrubbing back and forth you need to be using proxies! In this video I'm going to show you how to start using them

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[keenanstahl]

@1:05 - The "Generate Proxy Media..." option shown here does not show up when you are on the cut page. This stumped me for a while.

[photographersfreedom]

@CaseyFaris, you are amazing my friend. I have learnt so much about DR from watching your vids. Thank you. I love the idea of having the Proxies located in the same folder as the original footage.

[CarleBrisson]

Wow - not only are proxies awesome in DR but I just figured out that I can do proxies on subclips too. I often grab clips from videos that are an hour or 2 in length and I don't want to create a proxy for the entire video so I can create a subclip using an in and out point and it will create a proxy just for that subclip. AWESOME!

[migrantsnorer]

my man you just saved my life as i was trying to understand why generating proxies was taking SO LONG you are the

[TractorFella]

THANK YOU. I'm learning about the video editing world like a brick to the head. I made the mistake of recording 4K @ 60 FPS and my PC is NOT happy about trying to edit it in Resolve. This will be an amazing improvement. Thanks again, and take care!

[TheBusinessModelGuy]

Man!!! This just cuts down SO much time not having to go and generate proxies before editing every time!!!

[leotexas]

I started out with DR 17 and my PC struggled a little bit with editing back then. Now that I'm using DR 19, it's so frustrating that I have to my PC hangs or crashes because it can't handle my workflow any longer. Out of all these times that I've come across proxies, why am I just now researching the benefits! 😃 This sounds like an editing game changer!

[HikingWithCooper]

I thought I knew everything about proxies but as usual you have taught me more. It would be cool to get a vid about the downsides, i.e. Fusion comps and coloring.

[bryantobin]

Casey you lovable goof! I have been all over youtube looking for info on proxies (first time using BM RAW files) and should have come straight to you. I couldn't figure out how resolve knew one folder already had proxies and was using them while the other folder (b cam footage given to me with no proxies) was not referencing proxies. The line "resolve will automatically look for proxies in the media folder" told me all I needed to know. You're the best man, much appreciated

[CureChronos]

Random comment, but just wanted to drop by and say thanks for clarifying how the rendering doesn't use the proxy media by default!

I've been trying to search on Google for an hour on whether the rendering can use the original media or not. For some reason this video is the first to give me an answer. So thanks a lot!

[vivamoment]

Thank you... BUT... can you explain whether we use Proxy files when doing colour grades or using Fusion for tracking or masking, etc?! How do we do those things when using proxies?? No-one seems to explain this, and it would be a great help as I imagine it is important to use the full / original footage when doing those things.

I would really really appreciate your expert thoughts on this please. 🙂

[sharil.]

The best explanation/walk-through of proxies I've seen. Thank you!

[mrfroopy]

It is never recommended to create h264 proxies. Yes the new Macs and some other gpus are optimized for hardware decoding, but it is much better to generate either DNXLB or ProRes of a proxy flavor. This is the workflow of professionals, yes it takes up more room but it is much easier on your computer.

[A.A.Love]

You are the best. Found you through Kevin Stratvert's profile when you did a collaboration. Love your guy's stuff. You both rock!! Thank You!!

[laurencehamilton-baillie]

this is great. the only thing I'd say is that you shouldn't use H.264 as an edit proxy codec. prores proxy is the correct setting for smooth playback. h.264 will always give you issues with editing no matter how small the resolution is as it's not a codec designed for editing, it's an export codec.

[shivrajdaund]

I am new to editing world and learning about proxies is like finding a cheat code.

My editing became so fast

Thank you

[jcody_parker]

THANK YOU!! Finally somewhere that explains how to use your own proxy media. My Sony A7iv generates them automatically & I couldn't find anything showing how to use your own. People just kept explaining how to generate it in the program. Only thing is that it doesn't automatically link it for me when putting it in a "Proxy" folder in the location of the original 4k files. I have to "relink proxy media" every time myself. Which isn't a big deal but it would be cool if it just automatically did it

[tomasferreira-editor-director]

I see you had H.264 as your proxy media codec. I heard that's not the preferred codec for editing as it gives playback problems being difficult to process, though I don't know if there have been any advancements with the codec recently that changed this issue. Normally, the suggested proxy codes are ProRes and DNxHD/HR. What do you think about this question, Casey? Is using H264 as an editing codec today safer? Why?

[Holoscenes-Simon]

Saving my editing-evening as always! Thanks as always!

[valleybrook]

I tried to use Proxies and Wow haw fast the editing is with proxies, amazing!