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Import Options
When you import media from the MediaHub, you have a Generate Proxies button. If you enabled the
Generate Proxies By Default option when creating your project, the button will also be enabled by default
in the MediaHub and proxy media will be generated on import. You are free to disable and re-enable it, at
any point, to change the proxy generation behavior for specific media.
Rendering Options
Since proxy media is optional, there are preferences to define whether or not to write proxy media during
rendering. These preferences affect the Timeline, ConnectFX, Generators and the Modules.
In the General tab of the Preferences, under Default Rendering Options, there is now a Proxy Rendering
drop-down menu, from which you can select one of three options:
■ Full Resolution and Proxy: The application renders at both full resolution and proxy resolution.
■ Full Resolution: The application renders only at full resolution.
■ Proxy: This sets the Timeline Rendering options to “Proxy Only”.
NOTE The Proxy option only applies to the Timeline. When selected, ConnectFX, Generators and the Modules
are set to “Full Resolution and Proxy”, as they do not support Proxy Only rendering. They instead have an
“Include Proxies” option in the drop-down of their respective Rendering button, which is enabled or disabled,
based on this preference setting.
Generating Proxies On Demand
On demand proxy generation is achieved through the contextual menu, under the Media header, which
gives you two self-explanatory options, relative to proxy generation:
■ Generate Proxies
■ Flush Proxies
You can do this at any point, regardless of whether or not you enabled proxy generation by default when
you created your project.
This can be done to an individual clip, to a Reel or a Library.
Visual Indication
In order to get a quick snapshot of which clips have proxy media, as well as their current status, you can:
■ Enable List View in the Media Panel and look in the Proxy Resolution column, which will display a
hyphen if no proxies exist on disc for that media, the resolution of the proxies if they exist on disc and
“pending…” if proxies are in the midst of being generated.
■ Alt + Click a clip in the Media Panel.
Setting Cache and Renders Format
Set the default media format for media cache and renders for your project under the Cache and Renders tab.
This setting is used whenever the application writes to its managed storage:
■ When caching media. On demand (contextual menu ➤ Media) or on import (MediaHub ➤ General
➤ Clip Options).
■ When rendering a Timeline FX, a clip using a Tools module, or when using a Render node in ConnectFX.
■ When creating virtual media such as coloured frames.
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