[Mike Cohen]

upon further research including contacting Intel it seems my computer cannot update to the latest Intel driver. Even if I disable the Intel GPU Premiere continues to flag the Intel GPU as being incompatible.

[Mike Cohen]

this problem has happened with every version since 2017. I even installed CS6 to see if that would help but same problem.

I just trashed the preferences and made a new project. Imported one MXF file, made a sequence, and on 1st attempt at moving the clip on the sequence I got the hourglass and not responding.

Instead of closing Premiere I waited 13 minutes and it continue to be unresponsive, so I force stopped Premiere. It seems the computer is the problem.

[Mike Cohen]

Or use a Blackmagic Web presenter and use whatever cameras you want

[Mike Cohen]

Thanks for the reply. I disabled the Intel GPU driver and was able to use Premiere without the sequence issue described in my original post. However after a few minutes of working the playback of video stopped working. The sequence would play with sound but the video was missing.
Also turning off the Intel GPU eliminates the dual monitor functionality.

It is a step in the right direction but you may be right that the laptop may just not be up to the needs of CC

Mike

[Mike Cohen]

sad to say it but analog gear is worthless – I keep our VX-2000 on my bookcase for posterity

[Mike Cohen]

I have a similar problem on an MSI laptop. I can import media but anything I do on the sequence locks up the program and i need to reboot. It started after either a Windows or NVIDIA update but Premiere is not the main purpose of the computer so it is difficult to figure out when it started.

Photoshop works fine.

I installed the free HitFilm Express for small editing tasks but I uninstalled Premiere. I even installed CS6 to see what happens, and that doesn’t even open.

[Mike Cohen]

I am pretty sure Mr Ed was indeed a talking horse – why do you think he got his own tv show?

Hollywood has a lot of tricks and talking animals is one of them.

[Mike Cohen]

I would suggest easing into your organization system to allow your staff to get used to it. you don’t want a system to be so time consuming to use that people ignore it.

Start with a project number, then add some other element like folder structure, or whatever.

Excel may work initially, or have some web based service to track projects like Basecamp or equivalent

It reminds of the question of job tickets for IT support. For a quick 1 sentence solution it seems silly to open a tocket and potentially add hours or days to the response time, whereas larger issues that may take a lot of time or outside service to fix need to be tracked in more detail. So the question is, how do you determine the scope of a problem (or project in your case) and who makes that decision?

[Mike Cohen]

I have seen guitar stands used for 40″ monitors

[Mike Cohen]

What specific skills or capabilities are you looking to learn or improve upon?

There may be sources of education not named specific to your job but which may provide what you are looking for.