Footage Taking Way Too Long to Load

Hi @Miki5FBA - If it was checked can you uncheck it and then let us know if that helps.

@jamieclarke it appears that was already checked. I will be bringing in a new hard drive next week and see if that works better. I appreciate all of your help. Thank you.

Hi @Miki5FBA - Can you check one more thing for me in your Preferences > Media can you make sure "Automatically refresh growing files" is unchecked.  Then let us know if that helps

@MyerPj @jamieclarke I just opened Premiere with the shift method and checked the boxes. The footage appears to be loading in much faster so far. Still not as fast as usual, but at this point I am thinking it is a hard drive issue as I have never had any problems with Premiere.

@Miki5FBA , do those things @jamieclarke asked you to, they should at least balance out the file loading. Can you put some or all of those files on an SSD and give it a try there? An external (USB?) drive is not the best way to get performance. But by chance is it filling up?

The footage finally loaded into the project im working on after close to an hour, so I will have to try this later. I appreciate your help so far.

Hi @Miki5FBA - Can you run a disk speed test on your hard drive?  Are you using a spinning disk hard drive or SSD, APFS is designed mainly for internal SSD disks. 

Have you tried creating a brand new project and importing your old project into the new one?

Can you try and hold down "SHIFT" while launching Premiere and check the boxes
"Reset app preferences" (Backup Preferences first)
"Clear media cache files"
"Reset plugin loading cache"
"Disable third-party plugins (one-time only)"

@jamieclarke could it be a hard drive issue? I've never had any issues before and nothings changed there either, but I've never encountered anything like this in the past 10 years

@jamieclarke I have yet to use generative extend on any clips so far, most clips are in 60fps so its not able to anyways

Hi @Miki5FBA - If you have a lot of generative extend clips these get added to the location of your scratch disks.