I’ve got a question here.
I’m currently working on a short film that’s about 20 minutes long — something I’ve never done before. I’ve always worked on commercial projects that are usually no more than 2 minutes.
To make handling the material easier inside Flame, I imported everything and generated a 50% proxy cache. I’ve been doing all the conform and review work this way.
Now I need to export QuickTimes for review, but they don’t need to be full resolution.
So I was wondering — is there a way to export using the existing proxies?
In other words, can I export a QuickTime file using the cached proxy media instead of the full-res files?
What I’m trying to do is take advantage of the timeline render that’s already cached at 50% proxy resolution and export directly from that, without having to reprocess everything at full res.
It seems that when exporting a timeline, Flame automatically re-renders it at full resolution. I know I could export at a reduced scale, but that still takes extra time and storage space.
I’d love to hear more about best practices for working with long-form projects.
The “Proxy Extract” is the solution. Thanks, Julio!
I thought that applying Proxy Extract to an edited sequence would split it into multiple clips — but it doesn’t. It actually merges everything into a single clip very quickly.
