Apple Shake 4 - Manual (Page 160)

160 Chapter 4 Using Proxies
This group of parameters should now look like this:
7 Now, create a FileIn node, and read in the saint_fg.1-5# and saint_bg.1-5# files from the
$HOME/nreal/Tutorial_Media/Tutorial_05/images directory.
8 Choose Render > Render Proxies.
9 In the Render Proxy Parameters window, set the frame range to 1-5.
10 Enable Render Proxy1Default and Render Proxy2Default.
11 Click Render.
Your proxies are rendered and available for use. When you click P1, you switch to the
half-height images. When you click P2, you switch to the quarter-resolution, half-height
images. When you click P3, you are using 1/10 resolution images, but these are
generated on the fly, as they were not pre-rendered.
Pre-Generating Proxies Outside of the User Interface
You can also pre-generate proxies for a script from the command line. There are two
methods to generate proxies outside of the interface.