IT Professionals who support Adobe Premiere Pro?

Do you do any "optimizations" to your system, like, turn off virtual memory, by any chance?

I don't have large projects that use 500gb of footage but I assume Premiere should be able to handle this as long as you're not playing a ton of footage at once. Even if you are, you would need a fair amount of ram and running out of memory will make any program crash, or run slow and then eventually crash.

When you first get a computer, you go through the setup, so on so forth, but do you change any system settings?

Hey there David,

How time sensitive is the project? I noticed that you initially posted this on the 2nd, and it's the 9th today, so if you still have time, I have a few questions:

How large is your internal SSD?

How much space is the footage going to need?

What ports do you have on your laptop?

Let's see if we can figure out a solution that will get you over this initial hurdle, and then we can look at how to avoid this problem down the road by figuring out a long-term solution as well.

Cheers,

Darren

Would you like me to move this to the Video Hardware forum?

You might get more hardware help there.

Replace the spinning drive with a SSD.

Are you by any change using a really old hard drive?

There has to be a common denominator somewhere. You are one of the common demoninators. Maybe there's something you do with your workflow that creates issues.

Mine can run like crap sometimes but it doesn't crash.

Intel i7 8750h

32 gb ram

1 - SSD drive

1 - 7200 RPM HDD

NVIDIA GTX 1070 

Here's the format/codec from one of the clips:

Type: MPEG Movie
File Size: 21.14 MB
Image Size: 1920 x 1080
Frame Rate: 29.97
Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz - compressed - Stereo
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 32 bit floating point - Stereo
Total Duration: 00:00:10:15
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.0
Alpha: None
Video Codec Type: AVCHD H.264 4:2:0

....and media used. (format + codec)

I'm not an IT guy, nor expert in anything, but perhaps you could post your laptop specs.