Free the disk space proxies take
Proxies are small copies used only for playback; export always uses your original files. File › Proxy › Move This Project's Proxies to the Trash frees their space and shows how much first.
On this page
Proxies are small copies of large media that make playback smooth.
Export keeps full quality
Export always uses your original files. Proxies are used only for the monitors, multicam and thumbnails.
How much space they take
A proxy is a 1920-wide H.264 copy, about 90 MB per minute, kept in the project's Proxies folder. Each file gets one proxy, made once, so they do not pile up by themselves.
Free the space
- Choose File › Proxy › Move This Project's Proxies to the Trash.
- The app shows how much space the project's proxies take, and how much is unused: proxies of media you removed or relinked, and unfinished proxies from a stopped run.
- Click Move All or Unused Only, or Cancel.
- On a network share, which has no Trash, the proxies are deleted.
- It does not run while proxies are being made, and it says how much space it freed.
- To use proxies again later, create them again; the originals are never touched.
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