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Premiere Pro CS 3 Takes a long time to load projects
Some of my projects have over 2 hours of HDV footage to be edited. I go through the task of conforming so premiere has prepared all the files to be used in the project.
However, say I close off premiere, open it back up at a later time and then load the project again, it takes over 4 minutes to finish the loading project load bar (stays at about 90% of the status bar for a good while).
Is there any way possible to speed up this process. Perhaps some organization of clips by putting them in more organized bins. Or creating less sequences. Which bring me to the question, does creating more than one sequence slow down the opening of said project? Furthermore, would I expect this same wait time on a Mac with similar specs to my system running Final Cut Pro.
My Specs are:
P9500 (2.53GHZ),
4GB DDR3 RAM,
9800m GT,
320GB 7200rpm (internal hard drive),
USB 2.0 750GB 7200rpm (external footage hard drive)All help will be appreciated. It really concerns me the length of time it takes for these projects to open.
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You’ve got two hours of footage…how many source clips? Is 2-1-hour clips, or 120-1-minute clips?
How many sequences?
How full are your media drives? How fragmented are they?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
Two sequences, both 4 minutes long.
Source Clips are about 140 clips to accumulate the 2 hours of footage.
The media drives are 29% full.
I just did a defrag and optimize on them using smart defrag. Never did it before though.
Trying to load the project now. It seems to still be taking the same amount of time as before.
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Pssst…any takers?
Its slightly annoying having a project take so long to load.
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I have also this problem in all HDV projects. It takes 2-3 minutes to open a project with only 10 minutes of film. I use Premiere Pro 2.0 and have a fast PC with Intel Core2-duo and 4GB RAM.
I have used Bach capture with a mpeg-file for each clip. In DV projects I have no problem. -
I think I’ve found a solution. It seems that premiere takes a while when there are a lot of clips, and a few single clips totaling the same length as smaller clips actually takes less time. Maybe it has something to do with creating the file structure for the project when its opened.
However, a solution would be to capture footage in intervals if you do not want to capture the entire thing in fear of dropped frames. I’d recommend 15 minute intervals. And then go through the footage in premiere and make sub clips of the footage as you would have if you were making automated clips whilst capturing.
Not the best fix but it is working for me and I’ll most likely use it in future projects.
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