• Adobe After Effects

  Proxies for better PremPro playback. I’m going wrong

  Posted by Paul Stroud on March 13, 2012 at 7:38 pm

  Hi guys,

  I have a proxy problem 🙂

  I’m creating proxies of my AE comps for smoother playback in PP, but it’s still laggy. It’s not the proxies that are the problem per se, but the AE comp on PP timeline. Perhaps a Dynamic Link issue

  I’m re-timing some clips on my PP timeline using AE via dynamic link i.e. “replace with After Effects Composition”. I would think that a simple retime done in AE wouldn’t be a problem for PP to playback, but it is… hence the proxy creation

  Crucial points:

  • ALL of the footage in PP is in ProRes 442HQ and sits on a Raid drive
  • This footage plays in PP without any issues
  • AE comp proxies are ALSO ProRes 442HQ and on the same Raid drive

  Interestingly – If I take the AE comp proxy file (a .mov proRes as I’ve said) and place it directly on the PP time, it plays just fine and snappy…

  …but the dynamic linked file using the SAME proxy will alas not

  Any help?

  Many thanks

  http://www.paulstroudmusic.co.uk
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  Paul Stroud replied 14 years, 5 months ago 41,796 Members · 2 Replies
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  Paul Stroud

  March 14, 2012 at 12:26 am

  If I have to I will, but this does seem like a poor solution to a problem that ought not to be there

  Do I need to tweak any media cache settings? Because if I take a clip in PP and “replace with after effects composition” and do NOTHING with it – the clip will not play in PP. Just the sheer fact that it’s an AE composition means that it will be laggy….

  … this can’t be right – I must be able to improve my AE preferences somehow

  Paul

  http://www.paulstroudmusic.co.uk
  http://www.stroudandcroft.co.uk
  myspace/paulstroudmusic
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  Paul Stroud

  March 14, 2012 at 10:33 am

  Sorry, I think you’re mis-understanding me

  A proxy IS render is it not? So Neither PP or AE need compute time based effects

  To be clear – This is nothing to do with time manipulation

  Also, I said that a clip replaced with an after effects composition inherently has poor performance in PP before ANYTHING has been done to the composition, EVEN when the composition has a proxy file attached to it

  http://www.paulstroudmusic.co.uk
  http://www.stroudandcroft.co.uk
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