Can I turn off automatic generation of proxies?

Rich Parry wrote on 1/13/2024, 5:11 PM

I’ve completed multiple 2023 projects with hundreds of proxies, I will never edit the projects again and do not need the proxies. After deleting the proxies, I opened the project to make sure I didn’t break anything and found proxies were being created again.

VP21 B208 “Help” states “Proxy files are created automatically when working with 4K video”. Before I give up and learn to live with this, thought I’d see if anyone knows a way to get around the automatic generation of proxies. I know SSD and HDD are big and I shouldn’t be anal about this, nevertheless, humor me. I’ll consider this a “learning opportunity”.

Thanks in advance,

Rich

Comments

RogerS wrote on 1/13/2024, 5:29 PM

It's greater than 4K video these days. You can change the minimum resolutions to generate proxies in internal preferences (might still want them for 8K!)

john_dennis wrote on 1/13/2024, 6:12 PM

@Rich Parry

Pick a number. Any Number.

3d87c4 wrote on 1/14/2024, 9:24 AM

Options, preferences, video:

You'll have to trigger proxy generation yourself, or reset the preference, when you need new proxies.

Rich Parry wrote on 1/14/2024, 12:30 PM

Thank you to all that replied and both solutions. I'm a little embarrassed, one of the solutions was staring me in the face.

Rich