@billrey As it is not possible with the current VSE manpower to implement a fully automatic and fast proxy solution, what are your thoughts on this mainly UI clean-up solution, which could be feasible to implement in the not too far away future?
tintwotin:
Alternate Solution: Improve UX solution and Keep Current Functions: (feasible with the current manpower):
As it is confusing what settings belong to either active strip and selection these things needs to be separated.
As it is confusing to set one or more proxy resolutions before building and remember the build values in order to set them in the Preview sidebar, this needs to be simplified.
In order to simplify it the general proxy settings needs to be moved into the User Preferences:
Maybe Overwrite should be added here too?
For equal playback but smaller files h.264 can be used.
For using opacity png in a Quicktime container can be used.
For high quality and good playback(but large files)DNxHD can be used(source needs to match the specifications for resolution), also supports higher bitrates(10+).
For high quality and high bitrates(10+) EXR should be used. For colorgrading on proxies.
On the Resolution, many codecs needs resolutions in fixed multipliers ex. x16, x8 or x2 to work.
On Quality, that is the bitrate.
On Timecode, some codecs do not support embedded timecodes(timecode usage is completely missing everywhere else in Blender).
For (Re)Build of the proxy of the current strip the options in the Strip tab could be limited to this:
For enabling and building proxies for the full selection that should be done through the menu:
Delete Proxies should be added to this menu.
The Preview Proxy panel can then be as simple as this:
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