• Adobe Premiere Pro

  annoying performance problem when having many clips loaded

  Posted by Marc Nibor on February 3, 2015 at 8:43 pm

  I am working on a rather large project with ~600 4K red clips in the project. Although the machine is quite beefy with 12×4.5 GHz, GeForce GTX 780 Ti and 64 GB Ram, I am running into some rather annoying performance issues.
  Especially when moving clips on the timeline…. sometimes have to watch the “hourglass” for 20 seconds when I click on a clip to make it active. When I then drag it left or right, there is a sometimes seemingly endless lag and once I drop it, it also might take quite long until it appears again.

  The good thing is that this is not always the case. Sometimes everything works in normal speed. But I did not figure out yet what/where the bottleneck is.
  In the performance tab in taskmanager everything looks way below a problem level. There is still 50 GB Memory available and the CPU also doesn’t have a lot to do. I also checked the GPU and it also doesn’t do much.

  The weakest link in the chain is that the raw footage is stored on an external HD. Although I cannot see how this should be an issue as long as I don’t even play the clip – I just move it on the timeline with thumbs off.

  Maybe I should mention that the clips play fine – even if I set it to full resolution. only moving stuff on the timeline is sometimes very slow.

  I know it’s very hard to answer these kind of questions… but maybe someone had the same problem before and found a solution that I can try. Thanks anyways for reading this far ; )

  My preferences settings are:
  Ram avail. for PR 58.9 Ram reserved for other apps 5GB
  optimize rendering for performance

  Marc Nibor replied 11 years, 3 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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