Transcoding media from the timeline?

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Transcoding media from the timeline?

I've got my 90 minute film all built. I'd recently added a whole bunch of 4K to the original HD cut. So I bumped up the overall project to 2K, to split the difference.

I'd made proxy files for the 4K, but not the HD, which played fine as is. Now I've got 40 compound clips representing the entire film on the single timeline/project. I need to do a lot of tweaking, but the 2K is struggling in playback. So I'm wanting to make proxy files for all the HD on the 2K timeline. Is such a thing possible? Hundreds of shots, so I can't go find them all in the Browser (where I know we can transcode to Proxy). Is there any way to Transcode the clips FROM the timeline?

All ears, Ben

Posted on Sep 12, 2019 12:49 PM

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Tom Wolsky

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Sep 12, 2019 12:54 PM in response to Ben Low

No, but you can do it in the browser. Use the advanced search function Cmd-F. Search for used clips, then narrow the search based on format. Or simply have the browser show only used clips and run transcode. Any clips already transcoded will just be skipped.

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Ben Low Author

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Sep 12, 2019 1:19 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Aha! Thank you Tom. Very helpful. And perfect for the future, when I'm not working compound clips ... but have a stack of single clips I suddenly need to transcode. I'm actually going to use your suggested technique right now, to imprint it into my brain.

Thank you again, very much appreciated,

Ben

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Ben Low Author

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Sep 12, 2019 12:58 PM in response to Ben Low

Duh. It looks like I can simply highlight the 'compound' clips in the Browser and create proxies of all the clips IN the compound clip. So I have my answer. Very cool. Thank you Ben.

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Transcoding media from the timeline?

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