| name | premiere-proxy-conform |
| description | Speed Adobe Premiere Pro editing with proxy creation, attachment, media matching, and original-media readiness checks. Use for high-resolution or remote-media projects, batch proxy preparation, relinking, proxy status audits, or pre-delivery original-media checks through the Premiere Pro MCP server. |
Premiere Proxy Conform
Treat identity and timebase matching as mandatory. A fast proxy with the wrong media or frame rate is worse than no proxy.
Required server profile
Start or restart the MCP server with MCP_TOOL_PROFILE=proxies; the default standard profile does not expose the complete proxy mutation and readback workflow.
Workflow
- Inventory project media with
premiere_get_project_items, premiere_get_media_info, and premiere_get_offline_items. Capture source path, duration, frame rate, audio presence, and offline status. Note that proxy mutation tools address root-bin item indices; stop or reorganize deliberately when an item cannot be addressed safely.
- Choose an edit-friendly intraframe proxy preset at an existing absolute
.epr path and a deterministic absolute output path whose parent directory exists. Preserve source-relative names and refuse to overwrite an existing file.
- For a new proxy, call
premiere_create_proxy with output_path and require a non-empty jobId, requestAccepted: true, and state: pending_encode. This queues Adobe Media Encoder; it does not attach media. Poll premiere_probe_media for that exact output path at a bounded interval. Require two consecutive successful probes at least 10 seconds apart with the same positive file_size_bytes before treating the encode as stable. Default to a 30-minute timeout when the user gives no limit. On timeout or probe failure, report the encode as pending or failed and do not attach the partial file. Once stable, call premiere_attach_proxy for that output path and require verified: true plus the same canonical path. Never attach a second time after attachment becomes readable.
- Verify every item using both proxy read tools; stop if their proxy state or canonical paths disagree. Call
premiere_probe_media for both source and proxy, then compare duration, frame rate, and audio streams.
- Enable proxy playback with
premiere_toggle_proxies and require verified: true plus proxiesEnabled: true. Before final delivery, verify originals are online, disable proxy playback, and require verified proxiesEnabled: false. Do not infer that an export used originals solely from this playback-state readback; validate the rendered output independently.
- Run a final relink/status audit. If direct-export tools are also loaded, render and probe a short representative segment before the full export; otherwise report that delivery validation remains pending.
Guardrails
- Never delete originals or existing proxies.
- Detach only through
premiere_detach_proxy; require cleared hasProxy and path readback before reporting success.
- Stop on duplicate basenames, variable-frame-rate mismatches, offline originals, or duration drift.
- Use one encode per unique source; reuse verified proxy files across sequences.
- Report created, reused, attached, skipped, and failed counts separately.
