Insta360 editing - fix poor performance in Premiere with proxies

0:00 The problem: Insta360 studio vs Adobe Premiere performance
1:23 The solution: proxies
1:40 How to toggle direction lock
2:14 How to create proxy files
2:22 Proxy file export settings
3:34 How to attach proxy files
4:05 How to confirm if the proxy is actually attached
4:40 Toggling proxies on and off in program monitor
5:00 Proxy plays back with no dropped frames
5:35 Confirm premiere is actually using the proxy
6:06 Appendix: what is direction lock?

I was dismayed to find out that Adobe Premiere CC performance is terrible when trying to edit Insta360 5.7k insv files. My computer is plenty fast enough to play and edit these files in Insta360 studio but editing the same files in Adobe Premiere causes tons of dropped frames and very choppy playback that is really difficult to edit with.

You can dramatically improve the performance of Adobe Premiere by editing using proxy files. But if you like to edit with direction lock on, as I do, then the built-in proxy creation tool will not work - it creates proxy files with direction lock off regardless of what you have set in the project window. So in this video I show how to create and attach proxy files with direction lock on.

Also I noticed that when I first started editing Insta360 clips in Premiere (without proxies), Premiere was crashing constantly. It would crash at random about once per hour of editing time. But once I started editing with proxies the crashing problem stopped. It could have been a coincidence but maybe editing with proxy files prevented premiere from crashing.