Showstopping crashes in 25.6.3

Question

This isnt a bug report yet, its a sanity check:

I'm working on a largish project (for me at least), and sometimes when I open the project I get a crash:

Windows successfully diagnosed a low virtual memory condition. The following programs consumed the most virtual memory: Adobe Premiere Pro.exe (17144) consumed 147442409472 bytes, ImporterREDServer.exe (25508) consumed 1148080128 bytes, and ImporterREDServer.exe (19560) consumed 1090265088 bytes.

That 147gb that premiere wants is vaguely consistent. I have been hardware troubleshooting the system for several days, getting chatGPT to analyse errors, and it keeps changing its mind over whether the root cause is system or software. Issues with boot took me too gigabyte support that blamed the CPU (13700k, so I replaced that with an older 12700k). Bios is up to date, intel and nvidea graphics drivers updated recently. That virtual memory issue seems to trigger a cascade of crashes including wdm

Is it feasible that premiere would need that much ram, does is indicate a system issue? I'm on a deadline (of course!) This is happening at a very bad time.

Windows 11 25h2
Gigabyte z690 aero d
nvme boot, separate nvme cache
media on areca raid 5 drive
RTX4080
System is 2.5 years old

PaulMurphy · Answer

If you're working on a large project (typically over 20 MB), I highly recommend converting it into a Production and breaking it into smaller, modular projects. This is one of the most effective ways to reduce memory and processing load in Premiere Pro.

Here’s a simple way to set it up:

Go to File > New > Production.
In the Production panel, click the context menu (three lines) and choose Add Project to Production to bring in your existing project.
Click the New Project button at the bottom of the panel to create sub-projects.
With all projects open, start dragging (not copy/pasting) your sequences, media, and other assets into the appropriate sub-projects.

A helpful structure to reduce processing load:

Create a Media project that contains all your source media.
Create a Sequences project where you do most of your editing work.
If you have many backup sequences or versions, consider storing them in a separate Backups project.

This setup allows you to work primarily in the Sequences project and only open the Media or Backups projects when needed, keeping your session lightweight and more stable.

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