 Hello everybody, welcome back to another Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2021 tutorial, and this one I'm going to show you how to use proxies. Proxies are basically placeholders, there are things that you would use if you've got really high resolution footage or you're using a fancy codec or something like that that slows your machine down, bogs your machine down, use proxies or placeholders and you don't have to worry about that. So let's get going. The first step here is I've got some footage and I've brought it into my Premiere Pro project panel. Now I'm going to left click on it, drag and drop it onto my timeline to create a sequence. Now you're going to notice that this has some audio attached to it, so I'm just going to mute it and I'm just going to just I'm not even going to do that. That's the wrong button. I'm going to hit the M button, not the voice over track and I'll hit space bar and you'll see here that yeah, it's just basic footage. It chugs a little bit. It's a little slow, but not too bad. There you go. When that lady pops in, you'll see here I've hit space bar and it's not really loading so quickly. So what we want to do is this is 4K footage and you know it's 4K because I'll just look in my folder here and if you're on a Mac, you use Get Info. If you're on a PC, I believe it's properties or or yeah, use properties and you'll see here down at the bottom 3840 by 2160. That's proper 4K footage. OK, so the first step here is we want to use the proxy. How do you do that? Very simple. You want to left click on the footage that you brought into the project initially here. So here it is on the left side here. Now I'm going to right click on that footage. I'm going to drop it down and you're going to see an option called proxy here somewhere. There she be. Once you hover over proxy, then left click on create proxies. We are going to create the proxy in this one. We're not going to do any other fancy stuff. We use that in another video. Now, in my case, I've got two options. I've got H264 and Quicktime because I'm on a Mac. Now 99% of the time I use H264 because it's just nice and easy and it gives you three, three awesome choices like breakfast, dinner and lunch or whatever. I'm going to use the low resolution proxy left click on that. So we're using H264 low res proxy. And then finally you're going to see you get the option for your destination. I'm going to attach it next to the original media in the proxy folder. So basically in the folder structure that I've set up, it's going to create a new folder called proxy folder beside the media. Now left click on OK and it's going to go ahead and now launch the Adobe media encoder. This happens automatically and it is going to process that footage automatically. They call it creating proxy jobs, but it should really be called creating placeholder. And here is Adobe media encoder. It loads up like I said it would and it runs the job. Now, again, remember we're doing this in low resolution and the original footage was in 4K. So we're going to now need to swap out the original footage with the proxy. And then while I'll while it's doing this, I'll also let you know. Yeah, work out, Curtis. I know there's my little pop up. I will let you know that when you do the final render, it renders it using the original footage so it renders out in high resolution. But again, I get ahead of myself. So now we've got this, but here's the thing, it's still using the original footage. What you need to do is you need to add this icon here that says toggle proxies. Now, I've got it on my toolbar here, but 99% chance you don't because you have to add it. It's not something that comes with default left. Click on button editor. When you do that, you're going to get an option to add in a whole bunch of buttons. The one we are looking for is right here left. Click on that and you want to put it basically into your toolbar like I had just done there. So left click, hold down and add it to toolbar. Once it's in your toolbar here, left click on toggle proxies. And when it is pressed down, you're going to see here that now that means we are using the proxy. The proxy for those of you that aren't sure, I'm going to left click on my folder structure. And remember when I said keep it next to the original video, but in a proxy folder, here it is. And here's what you could see. The proxy uses, has a 27 megabyte video, but the original, which is in 4K, uses 64. So in this case, it's about a 60 or 70% reduction or whatever that number might be. Also, when I hit the play button here, let's just go ahead and move it to the beginning. And I hit space bar, you'll see here that it flows a little bit better than the other footage, even though it's kind of hard to tell until this lady walks in. But here's the thing, it's using, there you go. She walked in like a rocket or he, I don't know. I can't tell or Sir, I don't know what the genders are. But anyways, that's all there is to it, guys. Thank you for watching this tutorial. I got a ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned. Be back soon.