[Bf-funboard] VSE proxies

[Bassam Kurdali]

You can in fact generate them outside of blender, just give them the
right path, name etc. For instance:

<evilhack>
I use this to proxy exrs with transparency into .tgas with transparency
using pillow, and then rename them to .jpgs... presto: transparent
proxy image sequences ....
</evilhack>



On Fri, 2015-08-21 at 18:59 +0300, Antony Riakiotakis wrote:
> Hi, if blender crashes generating proxies, it's a bug and it should
> be fixed.
> Even thought this is done in a seperate thread than the main
> application, it still uses just one thread to do the job (admittedly
> it could handle many proxies at once)
> You can explicitly set proxies in blender also in many ways (custom
> file, custom directory per project etc). I don't see how generating
> them outside blender will help in any way really.
> 
> On 21 August 2015 at 18:24, maximo remedios <maximoremedios at gmail.com
> > wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Generating multiple proxies at once is possible now in Blender but
> > challenging, you cannot import 200 files in the VSE and ask Blender
> > to
> > generate proxies, if you do so it will crash. Many free apps can
> > generate
> > low res video files in a batch way. The best solution would be to
> > generate
> > proxy files outside of Blender in a batch way and back in Blender
> > link all
> > the high res files to the low res files. Telling blender, such
> > directory
> > has the proxies (generated outside of blender), use them (without
> > having to
> > rebuild proxies). As far as I know this isn't possible?
> > 
> > Thank you
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