No idea why people don't use and abuse of proxies... Will you?

[Emanuel]

When we have portable devices like this (it’s 2025 — only portable 1080p projectors hit my home white walls!), with OCuLink support, just a click away like today — more real than ever before: 

https://onexplayerstore.com/products/onexplayer-x1-pro-amd-ryzen™-ai-9-hx-370-10-95-3-in-1-redefining-handheld-gaming-device

[kye]

I used to edit projects on the train to/from work using a base-model Intel Macbook Air and external SSD with proxies rendered to 720p Prores Proxy format.  This was in Resolve 12.5, so a long time ago.

They edited like butter.  

Rendering them was a pain, swapping between the proxies and full resolution files was complicated and took a bit of work to get sorted out, but it made editing possible on very modest equipment.

Now with Apple Silicone, you can edit almost anything without needing proxies.

[MrSMW]

Anything that is one less step of faffing about is a good thing in my book which is why I bake my conversion LUT into my files in camera.

But what if I wanted to change my conversion LUT?

I’ve never wanted nor will ever need to and so it’s one less layer on my timeline.

I’m ‘only’ on an M2 chip on my MacBook but no speed issues editing 6K timelines.

[Benjamin Hilton]

Proxies were an established part of our workflow for a long time, really the only way to get complex edits done. These days though using M1 laptops and desktops we haven't had much of a need for proxies, Davinci cuts 10bit 4k no problem.