Hey Jason, thanks for responding. I haven’t changed my sequence settings because I can’t even get the videos to play in the source monitor. Rendering the timeline seems to enable playback, the problem is this is a feature length doc with hundreds of hours of interviews, I don’t have the time to render every interview just to pull the 30 seconds I need from it. I’m not sure what you mean about a folder on your desktop for the preview files, how does having them on a separate filepath help? I’ll definitely try that next though, because this is super frustrating.
I’m wondering if it’s not just a RAM issue because this is easily the biggest project I’ve ever worked on, and two other projects I have going right now work just fine.
As a final reference, this is what my monitor looks like half the time
