[Kaye Abbott]

Interesting. Deleting my render files didn’t help, so I downloaded that utility. My working set maximum is, by default, considerably larger than the number you used, though. Does your fix involve increasing or decreasing it?

[Kaye Abbott]

Well, here’s a generalized update. I moved the scratch disk and project files off onto my secondary internal HD. I disabled my virus software (ended up uninstalling it for now). I’ve held shift during Premiere’s startup, and created a new workspace, then reset that as well. I disabled a few extraneous startup programs and services, but the computer’s pretty clean, really. I’ve rebooted the computer many times in the course of all this.

None of this has improved the speed even slightly. 🙁 Sorry, guys. The only thing that helped, still, is when I created a new timeline with lower audio quality (and otherwise identical settings and content). That timeline’s delay is still intolerable, but it’s about a third the size of the original timeline’s delay. Because of this, I was wondering if anyone has any insight about how audio could relate to the issue.

I read something about making sure the audio properties matched the project properties. They appear to, except for one detail. When I right click “properties,” the source audio is “48000Hz – 16 bit- Stereo,” and the project audio is “48000HZ – 32 bit floating point – Stereo.”

I don’t know what “floating point” means, but it’s NOT what I set the project as. I set it to the preset for 48kHz NTSC, which is 16 bit, just like my source audio.

I just performed an experiment, turning off all the audio channels. It fixes the problem!! But I can’t edit like that in the long term, so really, it just narrows down the problem. The thing is, there’s nothing weird I can see about my audio. I’ve made some adjustments to volume with keyframes, but haven’t added any effects, and all the audio is from the original video. One half is in AVI format, the other is in DV. Both halves have the audio properties I indicated above (48kHz 16 bit).

Again, this worked for weeks before stopping, and I’m not sure what I did that changed things.

[Kaye Abbott]

I definitely have NOT gotten it sorted out. Thank you, everyone who’s helped so far. I’ve tried just about everything people have suggested so far (if I haven’t, it’s just because I haven’t gotten to it yet). I haven’t tried any of your advice, Ross, but I am about to.

I’m about to restart the computer to see if any of these change helped, I’ll update in a bit.

[Kaye Abbott]

I have two internal HDs. I’ve tried it with all files on the primary HD, and then with the source files on the secondary HD. There are no external HDs.

The source material is a mixture of AVI and DV format. It used to work fine, but it stopped without me adding any new footage.

Incidentally, I’ve since done virus and spyware scans, both coming up negative.

[Kaye Abbott]

I’d love it if it was. I’ve rebooted several times (usually after changing something, like unplugging all my devices). Hasn’t helped.