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DavidHildreth
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July 10, 2018
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Why am I seeing constant crashes in large projects?

  • July 10, 2018
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I'm working on a six part documentary project with a couple of other editors and as our project files grow we are getting to a point where making almost any edit on the timeline creates a long hang time and often a crash. It's made working on the series very difficult and makes me question whether Pr is right for this project.

Things we've theorized as the culprit: Cut and pasting between project files, extensive audio fx, latency on our network. We've tried a few different things to try to avoid our projects slowing to a standstill but nothing seems to help.

Any ideas why our projects are becoming almost unusable as they become more complex? I've been using Pr for quite a while and this does not seem normal.

We're on MacOS 10.12, Pr 12.1.1, primarily working from shared storage. We are not using the Team Project feature.

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    James_eater
    Inspiring
    July 10, 2018

    I think people will need some additional info to help you troubleshoot. Such as the following:

    - What type of footage are you editing?
    - Proxies?
    - What sort of network are you using to access the footage and edit? SAN? Hyperdrive?
    - How are you accessing the network? Wifi? Ethernet?

    As for why a project bogs when things get more complex, I mean that's just how it works. What Premiere is doing is pretty extraordinary when you think about it. Throw on a layer of color correction and audio mix down, and you're gonna see performance slow.

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    DavidHildrethAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    July 10, 2018

    Right, I certainly expect the project to slow some as it gets more complex, but this feels very different and our sequences are almost unusable. I've cut on features in Pr without this much trouble.

    Timelines are 1080p with Prores as our preview format. Most footage is 4k XAVC or ProRes, no proxies. Our network is a large RAID5 via 10GbE via AFP, just two seats and it's generally not a bottleneck.

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    James_eater
    Inspiring
    July 10, 2018

    Have you tried to use proxies in place of cutting the 4K footage dropped into a 1080 sequence?

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