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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

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Then choose where you are going to save your project

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Then choose to create the project by clicking on the Create button

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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 Image Added
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Open Adobe Premere Pro

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Name your project.

And Browse to a place you'd like your project to be saved...like your external hard drive.

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Under the Scratch Disk tab, if you have every dropdown as "Same as Project"

you should be fine.

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Click OK
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Once you've created your project

choose File > Import...

or

Command + I

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Navigate to 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
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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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Make sure Color Management is set to 709 and LUT is set to None


click OK


If Color Management is greyed out then you are okay to proceed there is no LUT being applied


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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)

Once the clips are imported into Premiere we need to make sure no LUTS are applied


Select all the clips and Right click

>Choose Modify>Interpret Footage

Make sure Color Management is set to 709 and LUT is set to None


click OK


If Color Management is greyed out then you are okay to proceed there is no LUT being applied



Right click on your selected clips choose Proxy > Create Proxies...

Choose the Browse button to choose a place that you would like to store your proxies. (Recommended)




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

Choose Quicktime as the Format and ProRes Low Resolution (Proxy) as the preset.


Media encoder will automatically launch...
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...and start encoding your proxies.

Back in Premiere

Choose Premiere Pro CC > Preferences > Media...

Make sure the "Enable proxies" check box is checked
Click OK

You can watch Media Encoder and once all your clips have "Done" and a Green check mark all your proxies have been created.

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"


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 "+"

Then look for the Toggle Proxies icon shown here and drag it to the 

record side 

Shown here the icon is placed on the record side Press OK to set

Now you can press the icon to toggle proxies on and off.


Blue = Proxies


White Icon = Native Camera Original

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