 Okay, here we are again, Kaden live working with the same little home movie that we've been working with in a few of the previous videos. So what I want to talk about today is two things. First thing is real quick transcoding. So if I wanted to select a few of these videos, I can right click them. I can go transcode and I have a bunch of these options, which are high quality options. Some of these formats work better in Kaden live than a lot of other formats. You also have some common presets like different DVDs at both 16 by 9 and 4 by 3 aspect ratios and a few other lossless options here. So if you want to transcode, which basically this, like I said, these formats here, Kaden live works very well with. So for some reason your formats aren't working very well, that's one option. But there is a better option for most cases. And that is proxy files. Now proxy files are something you can do manually, but a good video editor will have it built in, which Kaden live does. And what it is, is basically if your computer is too slow, either because your file quality is too high for your computer, or you have a lot of layer effects or transitions and your computer just can't keep up. For example, once I went on vacation and I brought an EPC with me. That's one of the original netbooks, not a power hungry machine at all, only had four gigs of hard drive space. And I wanted to edit my videos on vacation. I was able to use Kaden live on that. This is, I don't know, three years ago. I used an external hard drive to back up and edit all my videos off of. But there's no way that that computer could edit. It could barely play. It could play HD video, but barely. There's no way it could edit it, especially when you start adding transitions and layers and stuff. So how did I get it to work? Proxy files, which again is basically, it's taking your HD, so these are 1080p videos, and it's going to make new copies of all those videos at a lower resolution, at a lower quality. And while you're editing here in the timeline, it's going to use those lower quality videos to do the editing. But then when you go to render it out, you render it out using the original HD files, so you still get the quality and the final render. So just want to show you right here, okay, I'm going to click here and I'm going to drag. This is just an example. My computer's fast enough that I can play and I can have transitions and it does a fairly good job as long as I don't have like multiple, multiple layers and transparencies on layers. But even if I just click here and I try to drag through, you can see I can, it kind of jerks around. Once we enable proxy files, it's going to scrub back and forth in this video a lot smoother. And all I have to do, which you might come here and right click and you can see proxy clip is grayed out. That's just because we have to enable it for this project. So I'm going to click project, project settings and right here we have proxy clips and we'll say generate proxies, generate for videos larger than a thousand pixels, which these are. They're much larger than that. And there's two presets here, an MPEG 4 and an X264 and you can create your own. So I can click here and I can see basically what this file is going to be. It's going to set it to a 640 by 480, you know, it's going to scale it down to 6, which is about 60% quality or is it the other way around? Anyway, it's about half quality. You know, it's going to recompress the audio as well and the video to an MPEG, blah, blah, blah. You can click this button here. You can press this plus and create your own setup, whatever you want it to be and call it whatever you want. I'm just going to use the MPEG settings, but I am going to change one thing. So with the MPEG here set it, setting set, clicked, yes, I'm going to click edit. And what I'm going to change is the 640. See what this is going to do, this is going to make a video that is a 4 by 3 aspect ratio. I want something, these videos are widescreen. So I don't know why it doesn't default to that. You would think it's to be default. I'm just going to do 360, which actually makes the file smaller, which will make them smooth smoother. If I don't do that with these widescreen videos, I'm going to get black borders on the side of the videos while editing that won't be there when I render it out and it'll make things confusing if I'm trying to, you know, line stuff up on the video. So I'm just going to change that to 360 and click save, close and click OK. And right away you can see it's going to start re-compressing these videos. When they get a P mark next to them, that file's done. And so a lot of them, I mean these are short, short clips, so it's going to go pretty fast. It tells you right here, originally there were 30 some, now we're down to 13 jobs, 11 jobs, 10 jobs, and pretty soon we're going to be, have them all converted into proxy clips. There we go. And now, right away when I hit play, oh well it didn't do the aspect ratio, hold on. Project settings, I changed it and then I didn't choose it, MPEG, OK. And it's going to ask me here, do I want to recreate all proxy clips? I click yes, but I've noticed that it doesn't automatically recreate them, which is kind of annoying. It should be doing that. So if you need to, go into your home folder, if you make that same mistake I just made, and you should have a CadenLive folder in there, there's a proxy folder in there, are all of your proxy clips. So that's where they're stored. I'm going to select these all and delete them all, yes, delete them all. Now let's go back into here, project settings, do that, and go back to project settings and re-enable it and I hopefully, yes, it's going to redo them. So yes, when you make a change to the default config you then have to select that from the drop down menu, I forgot to do that. I hope I didn't confuse you there, if so just watch the video again. I made a change in the resolution and then forgot to select that change and went with the current settings, which was not what I wanted. So now you can see right away, you can see, well I don't know if you're going to be able to tell in this recording, these videos are much lower quality. They're a third of the resolution and so they're much more pixel, but watch this as I scrub through the video. Look how much more I'm actually getting and scrubbing, how much faster it's going. So even on this fast computer, I can benefit from proxy files. It's going to use up a little bit more hard drive states because now you have the original HD videos and you also have the lower quality ones, but the lower quality ones aren't very big and you can delete them when you're done. But it can make a world of difference between usability and not because if your computer is too slow to run this and even a very fast computer can have issues with HD video once you start adding layers and transitions and effects. So proxy files will save you in that. So that's it, I hope you found this video useful, I hope you're enjoying this series and again I forgot to say at the beginning this is part of a series, you should know that because it is labeled video number six. If you haven't watched the previous videos, be sure to check them out. Check out the links in the description, there should be a link to the playlist if I haven't forgotten that. 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