Searching for clips in Premiere CS6 very slow

[Peter Berthet]

its fairly common in large projects, its not the fastest search feature in the world

– Pete

[Brian Mcclatchy]

but minutes as compared to seconds in finder? that seems crazy

[Dennis Radeke]

clean cache and trash prefs is one thing to do: Two tips

Also, if you have a large projects with hundreds or thousands of clips then you need to consider adding some more RAM. RAM is the solution for almost any 64-bit application….

Hope this helps.

[Brian Mcclatchy]

It felt like it was helping a bit but then then when I switched to another project saving the project was taking forever, intermittently it took about 15 min just to save, but sometimes went back to normal normal timeframe of around 15-20sec to save. Searching for clip names is taking forever again, at least 3-4 minutes to find a clip by name.

I have 12 GB Ram, shouldn’t that be enough for these functions? I have over 10,000 clips in the project but in OS finder , i get results in just one or two seconds.

Is there some kind of limit to the number of clips in Premiere where the whole project starts to bog down?

thanks for any input – Brian

[Dennis Radeke]

[Brian McClatchy] “I have 12 GB Ram, shouldn’t that be enough for these functions? I have over 10,000 clips in the project but in OS finder , i get results in just one or two seconds.”

Simply put, no, that’s not enough memory IMO. Each of those over 10,000 clips takes up a tiny bit of memory to know where it is on the hard drive and it adds up. On top of that, Adobe leaves 25% of your memory by default available to the OS and other applications, so you’re probably using only 8 or 9GB of RAM. You can find out by looking in Preferences>Memory.

You should at least double the RAM and consider going higher. It will give you much better performance.

Here’s an old link but it speaks to the problem and the solutions: Don’t Starve your CPU of RAM

At the end of the day, we are all going to have to continually reevaluate what we consider adequate RAM is. Besides the obvious Bill Gates quote about RAM (‘who will ever need 1MB of RAM?’), I know that I used to think 8GB of RAM was enormous. Now I have 64GB and I know that will become merely adequate before I know it. I imagine you have a similar experience as well…

Good luck,
Dennis – Adobe guy

[Brian Mcclatchy]

OK – thanks for the quick response and explanation.
Makes lots of sense for rendering and previews, but because the general performance seemed OK as far as previews and playing r3ds in real time if felt like such an everyday task as searching and saving the project should be no big deal for CS6 to deal with.

I will give it a try.