Proxy Prowess

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Proxy Prowess

Posted by Jordan O’leary on September 8, 2006 at 7:01 pm

Three things…

1. I have 77 Stills I need proxied. Do I really NEED to click NEW PROXY on every single one or is there a way to “mass-proxy”

2. I DID click on every single one and when I opened the project up again today… it can’t find the proxy files. I finds the orionals ok, but the low res files are missing. I check the path and it’s looking for them in the right place (in the folder I created for proxies) and I also tri4ed putting all of the proxy files in the root dir. ACK!

3. In lew of this, I could simply relink all of the proxy files, but I’d have to do that ONE at a TIME as well. It’s quicker to me to start all over and creat new proxies for everry single one. Is there a way I can “mass-relink” to the proxy files much like it would to regular missing files?

Peter O’connell replied 19 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
5 Replies

Justin Productions
September 9, 2006 at 3:24 am

I’m not in front of AE right now, but couldn’t you just click on your first still, then, hold SHIFT while clicking on your 77th still? Then right click on a selected one… New > Proxy etc.

Just a guest.

Justin Productions
Tangerin01@hotmail.com
Adobe After Effects 6.5 Professional
Jordan O’leary
September 9, 2006 at 7:30 pm

I found out that since I’m using a MacDrive on my PC that is being read by Mac drive… that for some reason when I put the files on there and restart it looses it’s link for them. Very wierd, it must be thetimecode reference in the filename that’s throwing Macs file structure off. Anyway, I put the files on a NTFS and redid the proxy and away it went. No problems. I tried to find any way around this issue but no go.
Peter O’connell
September 11, 2006 at 2:45 pm

Hi (regarding making a bunch of proxies all at once). Drag the stills directly from the project window to the render window. Without unselecting them, change the settings for one of the stills. The settings for all the others will change too.
Pete

Monday; September 11, 2006
10:45 AM

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Jordan O’leary
September 11, 2006 at 5:32 pm

Well, I can switch the Render Settings all at one but not the output mode nor can I change the template for the filenames either. I tried it all, if there is a way to change all of the output modes at once please let me know.
Peter O’connell
September 11, 2006 at 7:30 pm

Hi, to set the output module, first command/control click the module you want (to set it as the default), then drag all your images in. Set whatever you want it to be named as default first as well.
They are kind of work arounds but they work OK.
Pete

Monday; September 11, 2006
3:31 PM

barxseven.com

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