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# Processing Clips and Proxies

You can process clips in the clip library. If you have a Burn license, you can burn clips containing soft effects and transitions from the clip library to a remote rendering system. You can also choose to only process proxies rather than full-resolution versions of the selected clips when rendering both locally and remotely with Burn.

You can unrender clips containing soft effects and transitions. This is useful when you want to temporarily free up space on the framestore. For example, if you are working with clips from one project, you can unrender the clips from another project. Additionally, unrendering clips can be useful before archiving. The unrendered version of the clip requires less space so you can archive the media more quickly.

To process clips in the clip library:

1. In the clip library, select the clips that you want to process.
2. Click Tools to display the Tools menu, then choose Rendering Tools.
3. Select a rendering option.

   Select: | To:
   --- | ---
   Render Clip | Process the entire clips.
   Proxy Render | Process only the proxies of the clips.

To unrender clips in the clip library:

1. In the clip library, select the clips that you want to unrender.
2. Click Tools to display the Tools menu, then choose Rendering Tools.
3. Click Unrender Clip.

To burn clips or proxies in the clip library:

1. In the clip library, select the clips that you want to burn.
2. Click Tools to display the Tools menu, then choose Rendering Tools.
3. Select a Burn option and confirm the operation.

   Select: | To:
   --- | ---
   Burn | Burn the entire clips.
   Burn Proxy | Burn only the proxies of the clips.

   The clip or proxy is processed with Burn. The rendered clip or proxy appears in the clip library when the processing is complete.

To process clips from the A/V Tools menu:

1. From the EditDesk, select the clips that you want to process.
2. From the A/V Tools box, select Rendering.

   The Rendering tools appear.

3. Apply the Rendering tools to clips on the EditDesk, as follows.
   Render
     Process a clip located in the Source or Record Area. You can either process proxies or the full clip resolution. The default proxy resolution is set in the Project settings.
   Unrender
     Unrenders a clip located in the Source or Record Area.
   Compact Fx
     Removes the intermediate results of soft effects from a clip located in the Source or Record Area.
   Burn
     Allows you to process any clips located in the Source or Record Area using Burn. All unrendered segments will be processed.