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Sequence takes forever to link media
Coming from Final Cut Pro7, I like editing in Premiere Pro CS6, but am I alone in thinking that this is one unstable piece of software? Very often projects crash upon launching, and I have to restart the computer and let it go through a tired process of creating a project copy before being able to reopen it. I clean my Media Cache Database regularly, which may or may not help, but someone told me that was helpful today. And today, I have one project that opened, but I was unable to get to a complicated sequence which contains lots of tiny subclips from big, long original clips. I can play it and hear the audio, but the Program Viewer has the yellow screen which says media pending, and at the bottom right of my timeline, it keeps Generating Peak Files for hundreds of clips that I imported for this project. It’s been 15 minutes now and I still can’t see the sequence when I hit play. It doesn’t seem to be a case of project bloat because the project file is only 29 MBs. Any ideas, anyone? Thanks in advance.
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This sounds like you’re having a hardware problem. We’ve been using CS6 from the outset with some pretty heavy projects and had no problems. Have you done all the latest updates? If not, have a look at your drives and ram memory.
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Thanks for your response. Turns out the thing to do, especially if it’s a complicated sequence and you’ve rendered a lot of effects before output (even if you were outputting without including preview files) is to delete render files for the sequence to avoid getting the “Media pending” message and waiting hours for the sequence to load. Sequences for which I have not rendered effects load pretty instantaneously.
You’re probably right that RAM might have something to do with it – I’m running on 8 GBs on a 2009 iMac. But I have read on other forums that this is a real issue that Adobe needs to address, instead of leaving it for users to find workarounds. I don’t render out complicated sequences for the fun of it, but so producer and clients can look over my shoulder and see the potential end result. So it’s pretty nasty to have to delete render/preview files and start over again every time I revisit a dormant project.
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