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# Viewing Local Proxies for Wiretap Media

As with non-Wiretap Lustre projects, proxy generation reduces processing time and can be helpful when working with large image formats. Wiretap projects will make use of Visual Effects and Finishing proxies, if available. This, nevertheless, involves transferring the proxies across the network. It can be advantageous to generate local proxies, regardless of proxy availability on the Visual Effects and Finishing side. Note that you can generate the local proxies at 100% of the original resolution. This allows you to work with high-resolution material on the local Lustre storage, avoiding network traffic without sacrificing image quality.

To view local proxies generated from the Wiretap media, enable the Local Proxy button in the Network Rendering menu (see Network Rendering Settings). When this button is disabled, you will be able to see the original Visual Effects and Finishing Wiretap proxies using the network connection, upon import. Note that this will not work for clips already imported when the button was disabled.