Mark Smith
Veteran
I'm involved with a few projects that are collaborations with others sometimes at great distances, and the need to share Shoot file information comes up frequently. Imagine products has come up with a nifty utility called ProxyMill to solve the most frequent sharing problem making TC Accurate proxies of MXF files that can be shared with others for screening or transcribing purposes.
So far the application have proved to be a big time saver for my workflow, since instead of bringing all the shoot files into FCP , throwing on a time code filter, exporting , then compressing exported files, ProxyMill does it all in a couple of steps.
The Short Story goes like this:
Point ProxyMill at a folder containing your shoot Volumes, decide where you want to save your proxies,what Quicktime compression settings you want to apply, whether or not you want time code burned in and at what font size.
The proxies can be written to a folder the user specifies or they can be placed in the otherwise empty Proxy folder in the original P2 volume Contents directory.In the latter case proxies made from Volume A will be placed in the Proxy folder of Volume A and so forth.
Some useful compression presets are supplied including ones appropriate for the iPhone or iPod. A custom preset can also be set up by the user. ProxyMill can work with either P2 volumes or Quicktime movies, I used it with both successfully making proxies with time code burn ins for sharing purposes.
The proxies get named with the orginal clip or movie name and have the same time code as the original clip.
At present the app works only with P2 and QT movies, but I have heard talk that capabilities will be expanded to work with Sony EX files and RED files as well.
Its a great way to make a set of movies from what you've shot and share it with a transcriber, editor, producer, etc in a really simple way.
There are a few improvements I could imagine like automatically creating a folder named after the P2 volume that is being processed and dropping proxies from that volume into the autonamed folder.
For the moment I'm really psyched that there is now a simple way to convert my shoot files into proxies with time code burned in AS A BACKGROUND PROCESS that can be shared in any one of a number of ways with collaborators on my projects.
So far the application have proved to be a big time saver for my workflow, since instead of bringing all the shoot files into FCP , throwing on a time code filter, exporting , then compressing exported files, ProxyMill does it all in a couple of steps.
The Short Story goes like this:
Point ProxyMill at a folder containing your shoot Volumes, decide where you want to save your proxies,what Quicktime compression settings you want to apply, whether or not you want time code burned in and at what font size.
The proxies can be written to a folder the user specifies or they can be placed in the otherwise empty Proxy folder in the original P2 volume Contents directory.In the latter case proxies made from Volume A will be placed in the Proxy folder of Volume A and so forth.
Some useful compression presets are supplied including ones appropriate for the iPhone or iPod. A custom preset can also be set up by the user. ProxyMill can work with either P2 volumes or Quicktime movies, I used it with both successfully making proxies with time code burn ins for sharing purposes.
The proxies get named with the orginal clip or movie name and have the same time code as the original clip.
At present the app works only with P2 and QT movies, but I have heard talk that capabilities will be expanded to work with Sony EX files and RED files as well.
Its a great way to make a set of movies from what you've shot and share it with a transcriber, editor, producer, etc in a really simple way.
There are a few improvements I could imagine like automatically creating a folder named after the P2 volume that is being processed and dropping proxies from that volume into the autonamed folder.
For the moment I'm really psyched that there is now a simple way to convert my shoot files into proxies with time code burned in AS A BACKGROUND PROCESS that can be shared in any one of a number of ways with collaborators on my projects.
