Slow Computer? EDIT SUPER FAST! Premiere Pro Proxies Workflow

[@ATMTech]

I think this is the first time I have seen you without your hat. I figured you were bald😅

[@mikkelpedersen5008]

Gold Comment.

[@dunnadidit]

You win the comments section

[@79shavi]

Or may be he had hair transplant and wait for things to settle down . Just saying 😜

[@dunnadidit]

lol truth be told... I’m too lazy to do my hair and I’m too lazy to get it cut when it needs it

[@79shavi]

@@dunnadidit lol , so do I !!

[@alanmf3806]

Ive seen some tuts about this, but this Proxy name on the Bottom Left is a minor detail that reaaaaally got me into following you. Great work man.

[@beibeigaming]

I have watched several "proxy setting" videos, and i have no idea what they were talking about, whereas your video is the most clear and simple i could find, i understood just by watching it, and it's short! good job and well done! Thank you so much! loved it~

[@nemraps]

The best in depth tutorial on Premiere proxies. Thank you so much for this. have a like

[@mjeditx6984]

NemRaps oh hey nem didn’t think I’d see u here

[@8xrry]

Annnnd i'ts monday!

[@nicolofoshizzle]

This was so helpful! I have a pretty solid PC build, but even then I would recommend using this proxy workflow because it allows me to multi-task without worrying about overload.

[@dunnadidit]

Nice! Thanks for your addition!

[@KittyKat94]

Yeah, it will help me multitask on my slow PC.

[@miketkong2]

Making my first proxies right now on a 2019 Macbook Air. That helped a ton. THANK YOU!

[@dunnadidit]

Nice! Glad it helped!

[@ScottGerke]

Please note: When you are doing this, you must be using the same version of Premiere that corresponds with Media Encoder. I wasn't seeing the saved preset because I was making it with PP 2020 and then using ME 2021. I went to ME 2020 and it was there. Thanks a bunch for this video! It's exactly what I was looking for :)

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks for bringing that up!

[@ScottGerke]

@@dunnadidit I watched your video 3 times over trying to understand what I was doing wrong. Literally followed your every move and then looked through your comments to see if anyone else was having problems. Oh technology 🤦‍♂️ ha

[@dunnadidit]

🤦🏻‍♂️

[@ConnorClaptonFLMKR]

I wish I found this video so long ago, I am new to editing and I've spent the last 6 months not knowing any of this information! you've just sped my workflow up so so so much!! Thankyou!!!

[@FraktalPriest]

I like that this is the first thing I ever learned about Premiere - Will save me some frustration I bet! Thanks for the video! 💖

[@Nomadalejo]

Thank you so much for going step by step. This video solved my problem that I have been trying to figure it out for weeks!!!

[@bluereeper11]

Makes all the difference in editing 4K 60FPS

[@punk979]

HOW does this not have over 100k views???? Bro you saved me so much fucking time holy shit. I can't believe I was trying to edit raw ass 4k video without proxies. This is fucking game changing bro. Thank you so much.

[@DioLT]

This is fantastic. I'm not editing 4K but my computer is having a hard time with almost lossless screen recording in 1080p due to large file sizes, so it's amazing to know that I can actually edit without having to lower the overall quality!

[@yutehube4468]

Same here, it doesn't have t be 4K. Mine was laggy (especially when getting towards the end of long videos I was editing) just on 1080p if it's using HEVC at a pretty low bitrate.

[@danielcook1385]

This video literally saved my opportunity with an awesome studio in London. Thank you so much for making and posting it, very grateful!

[@dunnadidit]

Yay!!

[@cyberlightningmedia9899]

This was a superb video mate, helped me so much, I've just finished editing 1 of 4 workout videos for a client clocking in at 50 mins WITHOUT using Proxy files...you can imagine the nightmare timeline all in 4K no matter how powerful my machine is, this will make the other 3 cuts a breeze! Subscribed too!

[@mackenziepalmer]

Hi I make workout videos and need help editing them. Are you for hire?

[@cyberlightningmedia9899]

Mackenzie Palmer Hi! Yes indeed, contact links are on my channel if you want to enquire!

[@metaljunky9910]

Do I used proxies? No, will I start using proxies? Absolutely 💯!

[@timelessfeatures9630]

*Thank you so much. This helped me a lot. I am currently working as the primary editor for a youtube gaming channel and the footage was slowing down on my timeline. Now I can work smoothly without lagging on the timeline in Premiere Pro.*

[@dunnadidit]

Nice!!

[@ollybharat7878]

BRO THIS IS THE MOST HELPFUL PROXY TUTORIAL

[@The_0ne504]

I've been using proxies for years and can confirm that they're amazing. The only problem is that Premiere stops using them if you apply Warp Stabilizer. I end up with super stable footage that I still have trouble scrubbing through unless I temporarily disable the stabilization 😭

[@dunnadidit]

Interesting, I guess I haven’t ended up using warp stabilizer recently since I started proxies up again!

[@nocapfilmz5214]

ill take that one downfall compared to editing without proxies! thanks for the tip and heads up

[@virtuozlaboucledor9083]

great to know you're using this method for years already. It mean that it really work. Instead this problem of "Warp Stabilizer" Do you have any issues with: Chroma Key / Color grading / Transition effets / Zoom / Slow motion etc ?

[@The_0ne504]

@@virtuozlaboucledor9083 I don't really use chroma key but everything else works fine with proxies

[@virtuozlaboucledor9083]

@@The_0ne504 Thank you for your answer :) So for sure, the only problem instead of all i listed above is the warp ? (That seems great !!!!) Sorry to ask you this, but, since i doesn"t have access to computer during 2 weeks, might be if you have some time, could you try a small chroma key stuff with proxies, to check if it's working ? Like downloading a green screen animation in youtube and try ?

[@OfficialHankIII]

Thanks for the vid. Maybe one day they will update their software like so many ask them to do.

[@dunnadidit]

OfficialHankIII - they’re updating all the time, they’ve made huge leaps and bounds from what it once was!

[@PLUGNPLAYMUSIC]

Very useful info, thank you so much brother. Just switched from avid to premiere 🤩✌️

[@jasonlorphotofilms]

This totally worked for me. Thanks for sharing this. I was so close to stopping shooting 4k videos on my camera because of all the lag.

[@BipulLohia]

I keep coming back to this guide everytime I need to create proxies on a new setup for my projects. Such a nice explanation. Super useful!

[@jarrahmccue-shore3700]

So much quicker and more cleanly explained then other vids well done

[@BrittneeKay]

this was so beyond helpful my gosh. it took about 3 hours to make my proxies...but that is less than what editing would have been had I not done this. THANKS!! :)

[@dunnadidit]

Yay! Yeah if you can set up the proxies and then walk away for a while, you’ll thank yourself when you get back!

[@SteveHolmesPorn]

Thanks for this very useful tips for the workflow with Proxies in Premier. I used to edit with Final Cut were the Proxies get generated automatically in the background.

[@zibertronics]

your zoom help to me to understand much better your proxy creation. On other youtuber videos i can't to see premiere pro controls. Excelent tutorial. (i am not english native speaker, sorry for my writting)

[@dunnadidit]

That’s great to know! Those zooms are kind of a pain to do but if they’re helpful, I’ll keep doing them!

[@benjaminmcconchie3433]

BRUH. This worked first try so well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much!!!! You earned a sub my man!

[@jordanvisions]

You just made my workflow allot faster! Thanks for that :-) . Keep up the great content!

[@dunnadidit]

Happy to help!

[@daytrip_films]

Man, this was excellent and beyond helpful. Showing the best way to do something in the most simple, clear, and easy-to-follow away. I have no idea how the hell I'd be making videos if I wasn't constantly fed a steady stream of well-made youtube tutorials on here by people like you 😂

[@KittyKat94]

Going to try this for my laptop, thank you.

[@YnotFilms]

Thank you so much for this!! I looked into proxy’s but I could not figure them out until I watched this video. You saved me a TON of time!

[@dunnadidit]

That’s great to hear! Cheers!

[@tomflorczakjr.5353]

My God this will save me hours Thank you so much for this great tutorial

[@dunnadidit]

My pleasure!

[@julianrueda2728]

Friend I want to thank you for this video. You really got me out of trouble! Greetings from Venezuela.

[@Mrdk82]

Wow, that timing was just perfect! Thank you for sharing! Dunna Did It again!

[@dunnadidit]

That’s great to hear! Feel free to share the video with anyone who you think might appreciate it!

[@jaywhitebk]

This was so helpful. I tried using the stock settings and was wondering why I was still getting a lag. But after doing it this way it is smooth as butter. I'm using the latest version of Premiere so the layout for the menu options are a bit different. But I figured it out in the end. I appreciate this very much. Thanks Dunna

[@walterbohm5632]

Yesterday tryed to edit full HD Footage recorded at 60fps, it was only 14 clips but the pc couldn't run it properly. It was a 2015 Mac. Now this is gonna be very helpful! Thanks for this one, man!

[@justinclarkphotos]

Great video Dunna! Would love to hear about your storage solutions!

[@dunnadidit]

Cool! I’ll consider a video about it!

[@dvd3424]

Thank you from Spain. Fast, easy and clear. This made me subscribe.

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks so much!!

[@paulatkinson7581]

This is a really useful, and well thought out proxy creating/use method.

[@sertaysakizoglu5553]

a big THANK YOU to you! My PC was really struggling with multicam but proxies did the trick for me. tutorial was informative and on point.

[@DashMatin]

best tutorial about proxies i've ever seen. Ty!

[@AdamVenturesTravel]

thank you so much! this is seriously going to speed up my workflow on my travel youtube videos! thank you!

[@VicBarry]

Proxies FTW! One thing I do that others might find helpful is create proxies with a squareish aspect ration (like the 1024 one) Once you're working in a 16:9 timeline (1920 * 1080) for example, the proxy footage (once you click the proxy button) will have black bars on the left and the right. Those black bars are a great reminder that proxies are actually on and more so a huge reminder to turn them off when needs be ;)

[@dunnadidit]

I used to use the 540 one for that reason too! Then I found out I could add the title and I switched over but either works!

[@VicBarry]

@@dunnadidit Awesome! Thanks for the reply dude! It's late here in Ireland, but how'd you mean add the title?

[@dunnadidit]

Vic Barry - I explained it in the video. I added the little title that says proxies.

[@VicBarry]

Dunna Did It 😞 sorry dude. Of course you did. It was way too late here. I was half asleep. Doh.

[@mendaou]

Omg I wish I found this tutorial last year! I was freaking out thinking my computer needed an upgrade

[@mathieupsyche]

Hi your colors looks nice ! Which PP on your Sony did you use please ?

[@dunnadidit]

Probably 10. I typically use a modified version though.

[@bicycleninja1685]

I understand the concept (as I almost did my own hackey version before I realized this was a thing) but will have to watch a few times then try it.

[@jasona377]

Very clearly eplained. This helped me a lot! Thanks!

[@dunnadidit]

My pleasure!!

[@CarlosCinco]

"Even if you have a newer computer....but it's a Mac...." oooohhh the shade haha

[@TheKunnche]

Adding this for those who it helps. Building proxies as per this video also helped lower my CPU temps while working PrPro. 👍🏻

[@maxlarenas]

Loved the tag for proxys!. Great video! Always forget to switch back to FULL RES media

[@dunnadidit]

When you export, it automatically uses the full res media anyway!

[@DeestroyYT]

Great video! Going to try out proxies on my next project!

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks for watching!!

[@EpicAdvanture]

My editing life has been changed forever!

[@dunnadidit]

Yesss!!

[@EpicAdvanture]

@@dunnadidit literally bro. You just helped a non-profit theater survive.

[@dunnadidit]

That makes me happy!!

[@riostories8086]

This was the Best class by far about proxies 👍🏻 Thank you so much

[@dunnadidit]

Yay! Thanks for watching!

[@rubberbumm]

Thanks finally got it very concise and helpful

[@dunnadidit]

Awesome!

[@Tbluepulser66]

I just tried this out, did everything right, and all my footage is still choppy, guess I'll have to play with the prores and proxies to see what the deal is.

[@denchfilms6546]

I can't believe I didn't do this sooner. Perfect tutorial.

[@DanielBergonzoni]

Thanks for the info! My computer isn't built for video editing and this makes it possible for me to make complex tutorials and music videos!!

[@dunnadidit]

Glad I could help!

[@markdjolly]

Excellent explanation. Thanks!

[@pro30s]

You are the man, thank you so much I've been stuch with premiere trying to make my own proxy for hours, your method is perfect! Thank you so much!

[@dunnadidit]

That’s great to hear!

[@Firearmerr]

Note that when you are using proxies, the playback quality(full/1/4 1/2) only affects the quality of present frame, when you browse through timeline with your LMB pushed. When stop and disable LMB, the original proxy frame is enabled at full resolution.

[@dunnadidit]

There is a setting you can switch for that as well, I forget exactly what it’s called but it’s something along the lines of paused resolution or something and it also applies to scrubbing through. This is the same whether you’re using proxies or not.

[@vlasisvstrom]

Thank you so much! I was trying to create proxy preset from Encoder but for some reason it didn't work. Created from Premiere and it worked fine.

[@mx7118]

thanks for the video. It really helped me a lot and it is explained in a very nice and way. good job :)

[@RV7FlyPer]

Looking at the video with great interest as it seems to solve my problems editing 5,7K 360-degrees videos - however - I don't have all the presets (Apple ProRes) available for my proxy files... perhaps you could make a video or explain how I get those too ?

[@dunnadidit]

Hmm I’m not sure exactly how you would go about that for 360 videos and I didn’t have to do anything to get them, they were just there with the software so I’m not sure why yours would be missing. You might have to do some googling!

[@RV7FlyPer]

@@dunnadidit I found them when I made my own custom ingest/export. However - for 360 video - the format of the proxy needs to be different - clearly a 720/1280 is not working - as the "sphere" of video is not easy to work with.

[@killerbeemarketing]

I’m thinking about switching from Final Cut to Premiere and I heard about Proxies. I have a couple questions you may be able to help me answer. First, if I create the proxy files, like you show, can I send those proxy files to an editor to edit? Once they’re done can I reconnect those proxy files to my 4K clips and the edits be carried over? Second, after the editing is done on the proxy files is it easy to export the finished 4K video? My goal is to record the videos myself, and hire a video editor to do most of the editing process. We’ll have to share these files on Dropbox so proxy files could make that a lot easier. But since I’m new to this, I don’t know if this will work. Thank you for any advice you can share. 😁

[@dunnadidit]

All of this is possible, but you’ll have to do a bit of learning about transcoding, proxies and relinking. But definitely doable.

[@tania_goncalves]

This video just saved my life! Thank you!

[@FonzReviews]

Thank you so much for this. Other videos were just too lengthy and made it seem dreadful. This was so easy, thanks for saving us time and going straight to the point.

[@stefanorimoli]

Thank you for your excellent tutorial, well explained and easy to understand even for an Italian like me (sorry for my English that is not good). I have a question, please: I have a 3 years old laptop Windows 10, 16GB RAM and with multi-camera project in 4K at 60fps and I really need proxy (and a new laptop). In the mean time I work with 3 SSD, 1 internal for OS & software, 1 external for Project & Source Media and 1 external for Media Cache & Scratch; In your opinion do I have to save the proxy files in the SSD dedicated to the Project & Source ? or better in the SSD for Media Cache & Scratch or in the OS SSD? Thank you very much!

[@dunnadidit]

I personally prefer to save my proxy files next to my original files. As long as it’s on an ssd you should be fine!

[@joefawcett9237]

omg i have a slow computer and this helps sooooo much. Thank you so much dunna this is incredible and so easy.

[@dunnadidit]

Great to hear!

[@TravisSickle]

I so wish that making proxies were faster. Hopefully premiere pro can work on it. The video was super helpful!

[@yutehube4468]

I followed this to the letter and it's the perfect guide! I noticed that creating my own 720p proxy ingest preset made the creation of the proxy a lot faster than using one of the built-in presets, that also don't have the "PROXY" effect overlay. Cheers Dunna! EDIT: I thought it was too good to be true... now it's cutting out huge chunks of audio on the proxy version in Premiere - making editing it impossible since editing when there's talking is all part of my editing. Back to just struggling along with the original file, sigh. This cutting of audio happens when I export too but I always export a WAV and drag it back into Premiere, that fixes it... I can't do that with the proxy version since exporting exports the original file. Plergh!

[@magnumrex]

This was actually super helpful. Helped me out a lot.

[@dunnadidit]

Great to hear!

[@theJustScience]

Needed this so bad lately. Thanks for the detailed breakdown!

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks for watching! Hope it’s helpful!

[@adnanerochdi6982]

very helpful thank you v much! the proxy toggle was all i needed

[@dunnadidit]

Nice!

[@rjbslio]

Thanks for the tip! I'm currently using Final Cut Pro but I also wanna learn Premiere so when it comes to making proxies, FCP's way is much easier than PP. But then again, I will try what you did on this vid and with that, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.Really helpful.

[@dunnadidit]

My pleasure!!

[@sajad88]

Very well explained and to the point...

[@theofficialstig]

thank you for showing me the button trick the last tutorial left me confused

[@dunnadidit]

Nice!

[@adamkatz2003]

is that good idea to color correct a low resolution proxy video instead of the full resolution one?

[@IshakAbdelazizChoukri]

It was really fun fast and simple, nice video keep hustle

[@ruangrant4147]

Loved the vid. When you make the ingest proxy do you need to change the destination in the transcode files to destination drop menu for each project or should i create a seperate proxy folder that i use for each project?

[@GVivekDOP]

After the editing please suggest me the way how to replace original files with proxies to export high quality video. THANKS

[@DavidRidesaTrike]

Just wanted to say this is a GREAT tutorial! I'm pretty new to Premiere Pro and thank to your tutorial, creating proxies have shown me that it's not my Mac that has a problem. I think I'll be doing this from now on when creating a video. Thanks again and you've gained one more subscriber!

[@dunnadidit]

You're very welcome!

[@wildandliving]

Make a ram disk. If you have lots of ram in your PC you make a ram disk and put the files on it if you restart or lose power you lose the files but its way faster then a hardrive speeds up encoding time you render to it.

[@dunnadidit]

Interesting! I’ve never heard of this. Is it something I can do on Mac or is it just a PC thing?

[@amandaabo-basha5230]

Definitely the most helpful video I've found to help with this issue!!

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks a ton!

[@ishwinsingh3679]

Thanks for the video. Really very helpful. It works so well. Must better than ingest directly.

[@ALVINIUM1]

Clutch video tutorial! Thanks!

[@dunnadidit]

My pleasure!!

[@talishlafer1026]

Thanks for the video! Working with RAW footage and my Macbook Pro was giving me a hard time. A note for 2021 Media Encoder: When you create the Ingest Preset in Media Encoder, it doesn't autofill the destination (under Transcode To). When you add a specific location, for some reason ME overrides the location you enter, and sends it to /Users/username/Documents/Adobe/Adobe Media Encoder/15.0/Presets. This is the file you need to look in when you go back to Premiere Pro and Create Proxies > Add Ingest Preset. This threw me off a bit because I couldn't find my new ingest preset in the folder I thought I had saved it in, and had too many results pop up when searching "720" when adding an ingest preset in Premier. Hopefully this helps someone in a similar situation more easily find where ME saved the ingest preset.

[@dunnadidit]

I must say, I thoroughly appreciate the problem solving that went into sorting this out… it seems like 98% of people just come back to my video and go “your instructions are garbage!!!” Without realizing that ME has just changed a lot and has some quirks haha. Thanks for the update and for the kind words!

[@talishlafer1026]

@@dunnadidit You got it! We can’t expect you to post an updated video every single time an app gets upgraded! KZbin has a perfectly good comments section, and we can all help each other out by sharing what we learned :)

[@sevenpixvideos]

Nice video ... do you have an acceptable solution for the problem with proxys and interpreted footage?

[@dunnadidit]

Make the proxies before you interpret the footage and I think it should be ok but I’ll try to test it out.

[@TourmalineFilms]

Nice vid but honestly I don't get why you would need to have proxy written on the video clips when premiere already indicates that it's on proxy by highlighting the toggle button blue. If anything that's better in my opinion because colour is a great way to spot difference.

[@denmarksoul1184]

Subscribed just because of this video! Thank you, sir!

[@cwTheDrummist]

Such a great explanation. This is going to save me a ton of headaches. Thank you!

[@dunnadidit]

I’m glad you found it useful!

[@GabrielXzavier]

Why would we want to make our own preset? What’s the advantages of making our own? What’s the disadvantages of using stock premiere preset?

[@dunnadidit]

No problem with the stock presets. I just like to have the text on mine so that I can tell obviously when they’re turned on/off.

[@sgnoogle]

I think I'm in love with your contents. So. Helpful.

[@dunnadidit]

That’s great to hear!!

[@Myers_toast78]

DUuuudee this made my life so much easier! Dunna done did it!

[@dunnadidit]

Noice!!

[@kingslavd661]

I come to 5:58 and under Transcode files to Destination-Presets, I don't see the file I just crated.

[@ClaudioDesideriFilms]

Awesome thanks Dunna, you did it again!

[@KardosoMedia]

Nice buddy! I've struggled with this many times...so i feel you on this one. Thanks for sharing

[@dunnadidit]

Hope it helps out!!

[@fatjetbajrami2708]

YOU ARE MAKING THE LONG WAY , YOU CAN JUST IN BEGINING CREATE THE PROJECT WITH PROXY THATS ALL! THANKS FOR THE EXTRA INFORMATION THOUGH!

[@dunnadidit]

Why are you yelling?😂 And yes you can use the ingest feature so that it automatically makes proxies when you import footage but I prefer this way so that I get to choose which files need proxies.

[@mortenandersen6313]

Cant wait to try this out - thanks a lot 👏

[@dunnadidit]

Hope it helps!!

[@Bentan_concur]

Amazing mate, well done.