Offline Workflow with Red files Premiere Pro CC

[Alex Udell]

Hi…

although relinking has been greatly improved in PPro….

maybe this tool will assist you:

https://www.retooled.net/?page_id=784

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Joao Laureano]

Thanks for the prompt feedback Alex, never heard of retooled before so will definitely check it out.
I was just hoping there was a work around this inside of Premiere itself..

[Alex Udell]

Here’s what I can tell you….

1) “Multiple clips and sequences can be sent to Adobe Media Encoder at once”

so you should be able to take your media in the project panel and run it thru AME to create low res proxies in one go. at least according to this: https://blogs.adobe.com/premierepro/2013/09/adobe-premiere-pro-cc-october-2013-release.html

2) Premiere’s native re-link has gotten better..be sure to look over the docs here:
https://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-premiere-pro-cc/using-link-media-to-quickly-locate-relink-offline-files/

so have a look….you may be able to make this easier yet.

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Ht Davis]

If you want to use the proxy preset you downloaded…
It has to be a preset Premiere can see as a preview preset.
If you don’t want to drop resolution of the main file, or play with “Fit TO FRAME”, you could use the previews.
Close premiere.
On mac, open the .app with a right click and “Open package contents”, you’ll see a window open with the folder “Contents”, in this search around until you see the Sequences or Presets (or both) folder, and find the folder inside that one that’s called “Previews”, and drop the .epr file you downloaded (the preset file) into the previews folder.

On windows:
Open explorer (the folder icon at the bottom of the screen or My Computer), and double click your main drive (Most often the C:\ drive). Go to “Programs” folder. Not sure at this point what the exact path is… …But navigate through, trying Adobe, Adobe CC, Adobe CS# folders until you find one that has your Premiere install. In the Premiere folder, you should find a folder that says “Sequences” or the like, and inside that folder there’s one named similar to “Preview”. Drop your .epr files that you downloaded here.

Open premiere, and create a new sequence. Set up your output target, then look to the preview area. Click the arrow for your codec, select the codec you wish to use (the r3d codec?), and select a preset for it. Now you can select your output size if you want, but some presets already have one set for you.

Place your clip in the sequence. Render the entire work area. This will create your preview files. You won’t be rendering effects in full target size until you output. This should keep you sane. Adobe has Built in Proxy functions.
If you still wish to add those .epr lists to your AME, you can import them. Then dump your large files into AME and render out a proxy with those. Open premiere. After you have dropped your clips onto a sequence already: Right click your clips, offline them. Now right click and select relink. When the box opens, choose your newly rendered proxy. IF you have edits already, check to make sure you have rendered the effects in the work area. If it’s still choppy, your drives may not be fast enough. Externals can be faster sometimes, as they use a BUFFERED transfer. Internal drives have only the drive buffer, not a transfer buffer. This means they can only get up to 3gbps for the bandwidth, but spinning drives can only move 300-600mbps max, and that’s used by several read operations for your OS, your editor, your files etc. SO the reads drop in bandwidth and speed very quick.