In the Applications folder, open Adobe Premiere. |
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| Start a new project from the splash screen by clicking "Project..." under "New" |
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Name your project under Project Name Then Click on Choose Location |
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| Then choose to create the project by clicking on the Create button |
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| At the top of the Window Choose Edit and skip over the import training media part |
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| Click on >Window > Workspace > Editing |
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To bring in Media to your project go to >File>Import |
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| Navigate to your media folder and choose |  | |||
| your A7Sii or any other types of HD to 4K native camera footage clips |  | |||
Highlight the clips you want click Import |
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| Some media will give you this error just ignore it and click OK |  | |||
The file folder will load and your media files will be inside. |
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When you are bringing in footage and it does not look the same as you thought it would when you shot it Check a few settings > we need to make sure no LUTS are applied | ||||
Once the clips are imported into Premiere Select all the clips and Right click >Choose Modify>Interpret Footage |
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Click on the color Tab Make sure Color Management Input LUT is set to 709 and LUT None Override Media Color Space is set to NoneRec 709 click Click OK If Color Management is greyed out then you are okay to proceed there is no LUT being applied  That should fix any footage that is in a weird color space |
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If you have IPhone or Phone footage that looks blown out do the following steps Select all of your HDR clips > Right Click (windows) > Interpret Footage > Color Space Override > Choose Rec 2020 |
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Select the clips that you would like turned into proxies. (usually all of them) |  |
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| Right click on your selected clips choose Proxy > Create Proxies... |  | |||
The next menu will allow you to choose what type of proxies we are making. Frame Size Half Watermark could be helpful for you to see that you are working with Proxies or not. Its a little overlay that will show when you are working with Proxies |
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Location - Choose the Browse Choose Location button to choose a place that you would like to store your proxies. (Recommended) |
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| Next Navigate to your hard drive or shared storage volume and create a new folder and click Create. |  | Choose Select Folder to apply the changes of saved files location |  select it to save the proxies |
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Choose Quicktime as the Format and ProRes Low Resolution (Proxy) as the preset. |
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| Media encoder will automatically launch... |
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| ...and start encoding your proxies. |  | |||
Back in Premiere Choose Premiere Pro CC > Preferences Settings > Media... | 
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| Make sure the "Enable proxies" check box is checked | 
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| Click OK |
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| You can watch Media Encoder and once all your clips have "Done" and a Green check mark when all your proxies have been created. |
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Back in Premiere - check that the proxies are being referenced properly you can "right click" on the file in the Project Window and choose "Reveal in Finder"
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| You should see the clips in the designated Proxy folder |  | |||
You should notice a significant performance increase in the computer processing by using Proxies. Edit the project with the proxy files. | ||||
When you're done editing and want to Reconnect to the 4K media, uncheck the "Enable proxies" under the "Premiere Pro CC > Preferences > Media..." menu check box Click OK |  | |||
To check that the files are being referenced properly to the 4K media you can "right click" on the file in the Project Window and choose "Reveal in Finder" Will now show you that the files are linked to the XDROOT folder using the 4K native data that you backed up off the Sony F5 SXS card Now you can color correct and export at 4K resolution |  | |||
Next setup Editor so you can toggle proxies On the left side monitor or record side click the Button Editor icon or "+" |
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Then look for the Toggle Proxies icon shown here and drag it to the record side |
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| Shown here the icon is placed on the record side Press OK to set |
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Now you can press the icon to toggle proxies on and off. Blue = Proxies |
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| White Icon = Native Camera Original |
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