Premiere Pro CC Link Media extremely slow

[Errol Lazare]

Tim, I am experiencing this too! I can’t believe how poorly thought out this is for premiere. They butchered this in CS6 where you had to actually type the name of the file that was offline and now again it takes literally hours to relink even with the search function because I have to hold its hand and walk it along to every clip because it is blind and cannot seem to remember the structure where all the clips where kept! Atleast in premiere CS6 you only had to type in a few names and it would automatically link everything.

A quick search with spotlight finds the clip right away but premiere takes at least 30 seconds to 1-minute of searching before it pulls one clip up.

What is worst is when premiere finally finds it, it says locating media and the progress bar pushes along as if it is linking all the media, yet it takes that long to link one clip! Now I have to repeat this process again…and again…

I could go on a rant here but seriously I continue to rethink my decision in editing software when I am faced with such time wasting unprofessional unhelpful features like this one. I don’t understand how adobe premiere is implementing adobe anywhere but cannot get something so simple as efficiently linking clips. Final Cut 7’s linking was second to non and the best I have seen, but this?

You are not along in this and I am sure many others are experiencing this exact problem!

I hope there is a fix or an update soon or I may be rethinking my editing solutions and cancelling my membership as I am experiencing this and a myriad of other problems that take away hours per day of productive editing.

Errol X. Lazare
EXL Films
http://www.exlfilms.com

[Tim Donahue]

I’m wondering if this in an indexing issue, or some aspect of it that premiere isn’t tapping into. In general premiere has been great, it was only this reconnection of a very large project from fcp 7 where I had issues. I absolutely agree it has to be babysat and the fact it tried (with no benefit and at a snail’s pace) to continue reconnecting after finding only one clip is odd and in need of attention.
I have high hopes for the October update, I haven’t read anything about linking but here’s hoping it’s improved.

Tim

[Harry Kemp]

Hey guys,

Is the slow locate media function still an issue for you both? It is for me..I would have thought Adobe would have fixed this in one of the many updates that have been released of late. To make things worse, the locate media function is even slower when working from a network drive!

[Isak Menes]

Yes, it is incredible slow! Replace footage seems more efficient atm.

[Tad Newberry]

Me, too…once again. Of course all footage is backed up, but when i simply move it to a new folder on a new drive, ALL the stuff inside needs to be relinked (folder by folder, fortunately rather than clip by clip, which is good!), but you would think once you point to the main folder, it would find everything else (i think ol’ FCP did that, no?). Yes, i know, send it to “feature request” which i will do, and then cross me fingers…

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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FCS3 / Adobe CC
3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon Mac Pro
24GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 5870
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

[Tad Newberry]

Me, too…once again. Of course all footage is backed up, but when i simply move it to a new folder on a new drive, ALL the stuff inside needs to be relinked (folder by folder, fortunately rather than clip by clip, which is good!), but you would think once you point to the main folder, it would find everything else (i think ol’ FCP did that, no?). Yes, i know, send it to “feature request” which i will do, and then cross me fingers…

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
__________________________

FCS3 / Adobe CC
3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon Mac Pro
24GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 5870
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)