• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Consolidate missing files and slow GUI

  Posted by Ken Pugh on June 8, 2014 at 11:34 am

  I’ve just completed a large project (my first of this size on Premiere Pro) and noticed two thinks:

  1/ On doing the consolidate at the end all the linked files failed to be included and came up as off-line, i.e. those round-tripping to After Effects. Is this a bug? Should I pre-render these before doing the consolidate? I would also have liked to transcode during the consolidate, is this a feature in the pipeline?

  2/ While I have been getting quite reasonable responsiveness on the smaller edits I’ve done, this larger edit was extremely slow and ‘sticky’. With timeline updates in relation to mouse movements sometimes taking many seconds. I’ve been trying to track down the cause. One possible reason is a mistake I made when transcoding the rushes to Prores from hdv, thinking this would help with speed – I did it through FCP and I’d forgotten this fails to put the media in the full raster, leaving them at 1440×1080. I didn’t have time to re-transcode through encoder to 1920×1080 as I should have done to begin with. Premiere automatically pulled them out to full raster on my 1920×1080 timeline (although I saw no indication that it had changed the frame size, which was one of the reasons I didn’t notice until too late). Could this have caused significant system slow-down? Another possible reason is lack of RAM as I currently only have 8. I was reluctant to upgrade to 16 until I could be sure this was the cause and not the continual re-rastering. It seemed even one or two clips would slow the system down, even though the rest were full raster…. is this a known issue? Or maybe my timeline setting was causing the issue, see below?

  Many thanks for any advice on any of these, Ken.

  MacPro 8 core
  8gig RAM
  256 Cuda Cores in Graphics card
  SSD boot drive
  12G SATA RAID running at 250 Mb/s for Media Drive
  Premiere CC
  BM SDI interface for OLED screen

  Project 550 Gb
  File Size 12GB (although this ballooned to 120GB at one point until I deleted some of the timelines)

  My timeline settings were:
  Editing Mode: Blackmagic Uncompressed
  Pixel Aspect: Square
  Preview File Format: Blackmagic Quicktime
  Codec: ProRes 422
  1920×1080

  Most of the media 1440×1080 ProRes

  Ken Pugh replied 11 years, 11 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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