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It takes 1 minute to mark an In point?
What is PPro (CS4) doing when I mark and in point on the source side? Why would take a whole minute before the program would give me back control?
This is large project (17MB) with lots of clips (500+GB) – nearly all of it is HDV1080i60, but some is DVCProHD (1808p24) and one camera was set to HDV1080p30 (?). Editing on the time line is fine – no delays – everything normal – even the DVCPro clips.
When I put a clip – any clip – into the source monitor it will play right a way – also no problem, BUT the second I mark an In point (or an Out point) – the main hard drive (where the program resides (the c: Drive)) starts whirring and the front panel lights up .. this goes on for 40 seconds, then it switches and the drive where the footage resides start chattering for a another 20 seconds (these are averages – I started timing them since I had nothing else to do while I was waiting) and then finally I get control and play the source to an out point – then I mark an out and have to wait another 15-30 seconds for control so i can then actually edit that into my sequence. If I drag the whole clip from the bin to the timeline — no of this happens – which may have to be my work around.
But seriously – this is absurd – any ideas what’s going on when you mark an IN point the requires so much activity on the part of the program? BTW – this project takes about 15 minutes just to load – what’s up with that?
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18 Replies
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How full are either of your harddrives?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
c: 369GB Free (out of 500GB)
Footage Drive: 196GB Free (out of 750GB) -
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Cut your project up in smaller projects.
That will give Premiere some breathingspace. -
I’ve deleted the Render files – now the program is re-indexing files….63 to go it says. I’ve noticed that the HDV files randomly get re-indexed from time to time. Very frustrating.
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Oh how I wish I could. And normally – yes – that is what i do (though I shouldn’t have to.) But this was 10 days of behind the scenes video to be used in 4 edits – and no way to know which BTS went with which edit. As I get near the end I will delete the unused footage….but I’ve a ways to go for that.
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Slight improvement – thanks…still have to wait – but not quite a long
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Cleaning the Media Cache Database Now – I have a feeling I’m going to regret that when I open up another project….but I gotta try it. This project was started last October in CS3 and has suffered numerous crashes and re-installs of both windows and CS4.
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David,
Don’t go to far cleaning up stuff on a current project.
My advice was simply purging previews under Sequence > Delete render files, to see if that’s actually what slowing you down, then try doing your cuts without rendering and see if that works.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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No problem – I did delete the render files and there was little improvement. I chose to delete the media cache database and there seems to be much more improvement. That of course deleted only the database files not related to this project, so I may go back in and manually deleted ALL the files and then let the project rebuild itself overnight. Kind of extreme, I know, but it might be worth it. In the meantime I’ve cut the minute wait down to 10 seconds or so. Almost tolerable.
I’d still love to know what PPro is doing when I mark an In …
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