[Ben Cheadle]

First of all, your final point; I found that you can’t use your custom ingest settings if you want to copy and create proxies at the same time. They only work for creating proxies alone, without copying. You need to copy your files manually first and then create proxies. If you it to Copy and Create Proxies and then try and select your customer preset it will automatically revert back to just Create Proxies.

Secondly, I think I’ve found the solution to my original problem. I was mixing 4K and 1080p footage in a 1080p timeline, trying to use proxies for the 4K stuff to aid playback. Unfortunately, when I resized the 4K stuff down to 50% so it would fit the timeline the proxies messed up, and played back as if they were absolutely huge, only displaying the very middle of a shot and derailing playback even worse.

How did I fix this? I rescaled them to 51% instead.

For some reason whatever was preventing the proxies from displaying properly at 50% doesn’t happen at 51% or at any other size for that matter, bigger or smaller. Now I can edit 4K stuff mixed in with 1080p stuff, but if I want to zoom into the 4K stuff I won’t lose any detail like I would using the Scale to Frame Size option. It’s exactly what I wanted. The proxies play back with no lagging so I can edit just fine and then switch them off at the end for a final render and viewing.

[Ben Cheadle]

GPU is enabled.

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Using Scale to Frame Size allows me to get smooth playback but I don’t wanna go with that for the reasons you mentioned. If I’m losing the ability to reframe that the available 4K pixels give me then there’s no point in us shooting 4K in the first place. Using Set to Frame Size gives me the exact same results as manually framing; the proxies play back at massive size with tons of lagging.

Why are the proxies doing this?

Thanks

[Ben Cheadle]

We’ve been creating the proxies as ProRes but, unfortunately, you can’t create them in 1080p. You’re only given options for 1024×540 or 1280×720 or 1536×790.

It is possible to create your own ingest presets for proxies but as soon as you try using one of those Premiere won’t let you copy files and create proxies at the same time. We’d have to copy all our files from the camera cards to the drive first and then create all the proxies after, which would be adding a load of extra time to the set up of a project.

Edit:

I’ve just done a little test with that workflow, copying the files first and then creating the proxies after. This allowed me to use our own ingest preset and make the proxies 1080p so they’d match the sequence. Unfortunately it didn’t make a difference. The proxies still display during play back as if they’re huge, so only the very centre of the image is on screen and it derails playback even worse.

[Ben Cheadle]

We’ve been creating the proxies as ProRes but, unfortunately, you can’t create them in 1080p. You’re only given options for 1024×540 or 1280×720 or 1536×790.

It is possible to create your own ingest presets for proxies but as soon as you try using one of those Premiere won’t let you copy files and create proxies at the same time. We’d have to copy all our files from the camera cards to the drive first and then create all the proxies after, which would be adding a load of extra time to the set up of a project.