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Project Bloat in CS5.5
(Running on an iMac Core i7 with Lion and 16gb of ram, editing off FW800 Raid 0 and using straight off the camera 7D files.)
I’ve edited several projects on Premiere since I started using it this summer and I love it.
I’ve dealt with slowdown and somewhat large file sizes (200mb or so for an effects heavy music video) but nothing that would prevent me from working.
My last two projects have swelled to astronomical sizes and I have no idea what’s causing it. One is currently 4.5 gb and the other around 2 gb. I have projects of a much bigger scale than either of them with much smaller file sizes.
All the projects in question have several dynamically linked files with AE. They also all contain Magic Bullet Looks effects (which could very well be the culprit.)
I’m stumped. The projects DO open and I CAN edit but everything is painfully slow within them. I’ve tried importing individual sequences but that project file also balloons in size.
Thanks in advance for your help.
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I have not experienced this (yet) but if it was me, I’d use the Project Manager to copy out a given sequence and see if that doesn’t reduce the filesize. You could then re-import any footage you need. If there’s a an issue with the project files themselves perhaps this will help?
This is off the top of my head so take the suggestion with a few grains of salt. 😉
Good luck.
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I know that your subject line says CS5.5, but can you confirm that this is happening with Premiere Pro CS5.5? There was a bug in Premiere Pro CS5 that caused this behavior, but I’m not aware of it happening with CS5.5.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Technical Support for professional video software
After Effects Help & Support
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Hi Todd,
it’s definitely CS5.5. I did read on the Adobe forum that you guys fixed a similar problem in c5
I’m currently recompressing all the data to a non h264 format to see if that helps. I’ll report back my findings.
My current guess is that this happens to projects where I dynamically link clips that have Magic Bullet Looks on them. The file that’s 4.5 gb is a particularly short piece but one where I dynamically linked a large chunk of footage all at once (to use Denoiser in After Effects specifically.) That clip had Magic Bullet Looks on it before I dynamically linked it. That’s basically the only correlation I can find between file size and what’s actually in the project.
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Actually you know what, I tried one last ditch thing that did work to reduce file size immensely.
I exported as an XML and re-imported to a new project, project size went from 2 gigs to 5 mb. I realize that all third party plugins/render files are wiped out as a result but it did work.
I had previously tried deleting render files and deleting all plugins from timelines and then importing those timelines into new project through Dynamic Link but that didn’t work. The new projects I created with that method were still very large.
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