[Micha Mclain]

Hey Walter. Thanks for the reply. Actually, I have tried that. When I’m working with a direct attached storage, like a firewire drive or such, it works. However, we almost never do that. We have a 24TB RAID connected to a mac pro as a server via ethernet (a common and cheaper alternative to a fiber SAN). However, when connected to it, here’s what happens:

Start project, ingest clips, indexing takes place, start editing, then randomly the indexing starts all over again. Interestingly enough, what this leads to is a TONS of files in my media folders. So much so that typical finder operation are slowed down trying to sort though the mess. However, I’ve noticed this only on long projects with lots of media. Typical 30 second spots don’t do this which makes it hard to understand what’s really going on.

The few times this hasn’t happened, it still bugs me to have all these files mixed up with our clips. I’ve also noticed that when you have the same clip in more than one project, even if they’re in short projects, each project makes its own conform files, yet again messing things up.

Furthermore, I’ve noticed HUGE problems with conform files with MXF files. I’m used to conforming these to self contained prores files with FCP. PP though has actually confused the video and audio from clips in big projects multiple times. What I mean is you lay down “clip 1” for video and audio, yet ‘clip 2’ audio files plays. Again, totally random and I can’t figure it out.

Basically, I’m not happy with my results with PP, but I’m torn because it’s affordable and has a great feature set.

Micha

[Micha Mclain]

Maybe, but with FCP 7, I never had to worry about that. I’ve moved feature project files rom machine to machine that had equal to or more footage with zero problems. Simply close the file on one machine, open it up on another and you’re working.

The whole “indexing” files is still quite a mystery to me. No other edit platform does this, at least that is obvious. When I’m working on event type projects, I simply have to walk away for hours and sometimes even overnight before I can start an edit. That’s just simply not professional performance.

I think there’s a fundamental problem with how Premiere project files work. I mean, at it’s core, a project files is just a database filled with instructions. There is simply no reason for these files to get this big.

I would love to find a solution to bloated project files, slow performance during “indexing”, sluggish dynamic linking, etc, because I really do enjoy PP’s feature set. However, the performance is a serious issue for me.

I’m about to start a feature documentary, and at the moment, I just don’t think I can do it in PP without wasting tons of time.

-Micha
Founder • Editor • Tech Guru
https://www.multiversemediagroup.com

[Micha Mclain]

Maybe, but with FCP 7, I never had to worry about that. I’ve moved feature project files rom machine to machine that had equal to or more footage with zero problems. Simply close the file on one machine, open it up on another and you’re working.

The whole “indexing” files is still quite a mystery to me. No other edit platform does this, at least that is obvious. When I’m working on event type projects, I simply have to walk away for hours and sometimes even overnight before I can start an edit. That’s just simply not professional performance.

I think there’s a fundamental problem with how Premiere project files work. I mean, at it’s core, a project files is just a database filled with instructions. There is simply no reason for these files to get this big.

I would love to find a solution to bloated project files, slow performance during “indexing”, sluggish dynamic linking, etc, because I really do enjoy PP’s feature set. However, the performance is a serious issue for me.

I’m about to start a feature documentary, and at the moment, I just don’t think I can do it in PP without wasting tons of time.

-Micha
Founder • Editor • Tech Guru
https://www.multiversemediagroup.com