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Premiere Project load times
This is a problem that I have had for some time. So long that I can’t remember where it started. It may be my capture card. It may be Premiere. I’m hoping someone is experiencing something similar.
An example: I have a 10 minute long corporate video containing DV footage (This also happens with 10bit uncompressed, Quicktime or AVI). There are interviews with 7 or 8 people. There is a lot of B-roll. There are some still shots. Needless to say, there is a bunch of stuff put together to make a great piece.
My problem is in the startup time for the project. When I choose the project from the splash screen, it may take 1 1/2 to 2 min to load. OK. I can accept that…once. But then if I make any other window active (After Effects, Photoshop, Internet Explorer, Audition, anything) and come back to Premiere, there is another 2 min load time as it rechecks all of the assets in the project (I’m assuming that is what it is doing). This makes something like the “Edit Original” feature in Premiere very frustrating. Can you imagine working with a client in the edit suite, they ask you to change one little thing in a title that was created in AE or Photoshop, or maybe tweak some audio in Audition, then they have to wait 2 minutes for Premiere to get back up when you highlight it? It’s embarrassing and honestly not good for future business.I can’t remember if this all started when I upgraded to 2.0 or added the AJA Xena capture card. Is this a problem for anyone else? Is there a way to turn this update feature off? I would like to see something like After Effects where you have to reload the asset manually to update. That would save a tremendous amount of time. If anyone knows a workaround, please tell me. It is affecting my business.
Thanks,
Shawn MichaelHP xw9300 Workstation
2 dual core AMD Opteron 270 processors
AJA Xena LS capture card
80 GB system drive, 500 GB SATA Media drives RAID 0
Nvidia FX4500 Video
4GB RAM
Adobe Production Studio Premium with all updates -
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Does it also happen if you only have Photoshop running at the same time?
I think that “Dynamic Link”, which goes into effect as soon as you start AE, might be the culprit here. I gave up on running AE and Premiere in tandem.
Vince
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I spoke too soon. It DOES NOT happen with DV captured footage. After writing this and posting, I went back and looked at the problem projects. They were all Quicktime MOVs captured through SDI as 8bit YUV uncompressed. It looks like a AJA Xena issue. Something about their codec is slowing Premiere to a crawl. But, thanks Vince for your reply. I’ll try a few more tests on the subject.
Lowrysam
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