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How to downconvert R3D footage in existing project/timeline?
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you might’ve misread my specs, I’m working on a desktop with 2 quad-core processors. Not the best machine out there, but far from a laptop. The original editor is not available, the director and him aren’t on speaking terms, that’s how I came into the project.
The way the project plays back right now it would take me a week to finish it. If I can figure out a way to downscale it for editing purposes(can I switch an existing sequence to proxy workflow? Any other options?) but still have the full quality option for final export, I can finish it in a day.
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Sorry. My mistake. I saw ‘4GB’ and glossed over the rest, since that’s the amount of memory that I usually see in a laptop. That’s what I get for reading in such a hurry. (That’s still a tiny amount of memory for digital cinema work, and barely at the recommended minimum for HD work.)
Well, if the sequence is an HD sequence and you aren’t expected to use the full 4K worth of pixels in the sequence, then I’d just convert the 4K assets to HD-sized assets and use those.
See these pages for information on converting assets and replacing the source for a clip throughout a project:
“Replace the source footage for a clip”
“About online and offline editing”As I said before, this isn’t exactly the same as a proxy workflow or an online/offline workflow, since the goal isn’t to work at low resolution and then output at high resolution. Rather, the goal in this case is to stop working at unnecessarily (wasted) high resolution and move to an appropriately lower resolution.
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BTW, more RAM and a fast hard disk would be your surest way to increased speed—in this project and beyond.
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Yup, definitely upgrading the machine soon… or at least adding more RAM.
The links you gave me are very helpful, they might just do the trick!>As I said before, this isn’t exactly the same as a proxy workflow or an online/offline workflow, since the goal isn’t to work at low resolution and then output at high resolution. Rather, the goal in this case is to stop working at unnecessarily (wasted) high resolution and move to an appropriately lower resolution.<
The goal is to work in a low resolution and then to output in high resolution. My issue is: is it possible to switch to a proxy workflow in an existing sequence and if yes, how is it done?
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> The goal is to work in a low resolution and then to output in high resolution. My issue is: is it possible to switch to a proxy workflow in an existing sequence and if yes, how is it done?
Wait. So your sequence is HD, your assets are 4K, and you’re supposed to output at 4K?
If that’s the case, no wonder the original editor isn’t on the job anymore. That makes no sense.
If your assets are 4K and your output is 4K, then your sequence should be 4K. Then you could just drop the playback resolution to 1/16 and probably work fine without even needing to use a proxy or online/offline workflow at all.
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Tell me about it… he must have lost a few years of his life editing like that.
So for my purposes will this work – create a new 4K sequence and copy and paste clips from the HD sequence into 4k one? I would try it and find out on my own before bothering you, but I am not near Premiere nor the project harddrive.
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