CreateProxies

Creates proxy for each selected project item (footage or comp)

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CreateProxies

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This script creates proxy for each selected project item (footage or comp). It is similar to the built-in “Create Proxy” feature except that with this script you can create proxy for several items in a single operation.

: CreateProxies UI

Version History

v2.2 Fixed foreign language compatibility with CS5.5 – Nov 2011
v2.1 Code cleanup and CS5 compatibility (Aug 2010)
v2.0 Initial release on aescripts.com (Aug 2009)

Last updated August 25th, 2010
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Tags: Batch, Create, CS4, CS5, CS5.5, Proxies, Proxy

Charles Bordenave

About the author

My name is Charles Bordenave and I am currently located in France. I started working with After Effects in 2005, when I was a PhD student in computer science at Montreal. My interest quickly converged to expressions and scripting. Nowadays I'm regularly hired on a freelance basis by production studios focussed on tv broadcast, cartoon animation, motion graphics or cinema. My job usually consists of developing customized automation tools for After Effects.

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9 Comments

eric (Reply to this comment)
August 14, 2009

Hey just bought the create proxies. Great script, but I’m having difficulty rendering to current settings. The files are rendering to the same resolution they start at 960×540 when I use the script. When I do them myself (individually) at current they render to 320×180. How can I change rendering settings with this script?

-ERIC
Javier Latorre Zacarés (Reply to this comment)
September 16, 2009

When I apply the script room a warning saying “The script cannot find the preferences file. What is the problem?
Thanks.
- catfighter (Reply to this comment)
  March 19, 2011
  
  Hi, i am getting the same error as javier latorre Zacarés
  
  thanks (by the way very good script!)
  - schiho (Reply to this comment)
    March 20, 2011
    
    Hi @Javier + @catfighter,
    
    probably you are using an after effect version which is neither english no french, therefore you have to manually show the app where your preferences file is situated.
    
    Under Windows you will find it under:
    C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\After Effects\10.0
    
    or
    
    C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\After Effects\9.0
    
    according to your after effects version.
    
    and the file is called something like
    Adobe After Effects 10.0-x64 Einstellungen.txt
    
    Where Einstellungen = equivalent to the english word “prefs”
yanez (Reply to this comment)
September 29, 2010

In this releas we have lost the “Set to none” bottom.
It was useful for me…
- Nab (Reply to this comment)
  September 29, 2010
  
  I’ve removed this option because there is a bug in CS5 in the “set proxy to none” function. The bug has been reported to the AE team.
mel (Reply to this comment)
January 5, 2011

When running the script, the set proxy link seems to break, and in the render queue the post render action is set to link the proxy to “This Comp” which results in an error, so the script fails to render the proxies. I have to pick whip each one individually even though the “output to” dialog is set to Comp Name. (CS4)
catfighter (Reply to this comment)
March 19, 2011

I am getting the same error as Javier (
Blake (Reply to this comment)
April 7, 2011

Hey Everyone,

We are looking for a way to make this script “NOT RENDER” once it has built the proxies and render queue list. Instead of tying up the local machine, we will then send the AE file to our render farm. We looked into the .jsx file but were unable to figure out how to stop the actual “Rendering” once the script is run.
thanks,
br

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