

Instead you have something the Windows users don’t have! You have the ProRes formats. If you’re on a MacBook, I don’t believe you have this option. DNxHR SQ I’ve found to work very well, but this depends on your needs of course. Optimized Media Format: This is what format you want to transcode your video to. Test the different out and see which of them suits you the best. Also if you’re going to add a lot of effects and color grading to it, it may prevent you from choppy playback. But remember the higher you set it the bigger the files will and the more memory it will require.

This is your decision as it varies from computer to computer how much it can handle.

Optimized Media Resolution: This is what resolution you want your proxy files to be in. Here you have a few options to choose from.: Now go to “Master Settings” and scroll down to “Optimized Media and Render Cache”. This is another way of doing it, if you want to be superfast just press “Shift+9”. Or you can open it by doing like the picture below. The first thing you have to do is to open Project Settings, which you can do by clicking on that gear icon. If you’re coming from Premiere Pro you may be more used to the proxy files. I may change between using the word proxy and optimized media, but these mean the same thing. Let’s dive a bit deeper into what I briefly explained above.

