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CLIPSTER Edit Tool User Guide
4.2.6 Using Proxies
A proxy can be used when working with high-resolution film material,
such as 4K. It is a downscaled clip of the high-resolution data that will
be internally used by the Edit Tool as a substitute for its original material
to ensure a real-time working environment. Once a proxy has been cre-
ated, it will be available in the bin instead of the original material. Nev-
ertheless, the bin clip and all its representations in the timeline are still
linked to the original material and by turning the proxies on or off you
can decide whether the material of the high resolution is used in the
Edit Tool or the proxy. Thus you can work with the downconverted clips
as usual in the timeline but when playing out or finalizing you can
switch back to the original material in high resolution.
This section describes how to administrate proxies in the DVS software.
Creating Proxies
For each clip available in the bin that may exceed the real-time capabil-
ity of the DVS system you can create a proxy to ensure a real-time ca-
pable environment. This means when the resolution of the clip is
greater than 2K, you can create proxies via its context menu in the bin:
y In the contents area of the bin select the clips that you want to cre-
ate proxies of (see section “Selecting Clips” on page 4-18).
y Next call up the context menu on one of the selected clips and acti-
vate the menu option Create proxy or use the menu option Gen-
erate proxies on the Bin menu (see section “Generate proxies” on
page 9-21).
This switches the tool area from the Bin to the Jobs tab which will then
detail the status of the render operation(s). For each triggered render
job one entry will be displayed. In case of several render jobs, they will
be dealt with in the current sorting order of the bin (see section “Sort-
ing Clips” on page 4-19). During the rendering the downconverted im-
ages of the proxy will be stored in a reserved location for proxies on the
main storage.
For more information about proxies in general see section
“Working in Real Time” on page 2-11.
If the clip’s resolution does not exceed the real-time capability
of the system, the respective menu options to administrate
proxies will not be available.
It is best to handle and administer the proxy data project spe-
cific, meaning for each project in a different storage location.
Further information about this can be found in section “Notes
on Project Management” on page 2-14.