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Premiere starts mpeg-indexing every time I load the project
Hi Guys,
I have a time-consuming problem. I’m working on an image-film right now, which was shot with a Z1 and captured as mpeg-files in HDV.
Now everytime I open the project with these files (there are over 10 hours of footage) Premiere starts to calculate some index-files from these mpegs and it takes about 1 hour. I don’t have a clue why it has to do this every time and not just once! It freakes me out to wait over an hour when opening the project…
Do you know whats happening and how I can turn this indexing of?
Please help me…
Thank you
Cletus -
4 Replies
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Are they on an external drive? If so, you need to make sure that the drive letter remains the same.
Premiere needs to index mpegs because of the way they are compressed, and there is no way around it. You wouldn’t otherwise be able to preview your editing.
Vince
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HI,
thank you for the help! The files are not on a external hard drive, they are in the same folder as the pproj.-File on the PC’s HDD.
But what I have to mention is, that the computer im workin on is in my university and there is a program installed which is called HDD Sheriff and which doesnt let you save or change anything on the system-partition (Premiere is not installed on this partition). Is this somehow relevant to my problem?
Any more help?
Thank you
Cletus -
The problem here is that somehow Premiere is unable to find the indexed files on the next load in. Either someone is deleting them, or that directory changes location somehow (That can happen with networked drives).
I don’t know much about HDD Sheriff, but it could be imposing a quota on the drive, or deleting those files afterwards if they go beyond a certin size, which would make sense on a public computer.
It is verly likely the issue here.
Vince
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I have a sheriff on the computers at the school I teach at…it deletes all files created by the students on reboot, unless they are hidden in Documents and Setting>All Users.
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