Slow thumbnail generation in Premiere Pro

I have to admit though....audio waveform underneath the source panel is coming 🙂 Very happy with that.

I don't want to sound bitter (I know I do :P), but to whom is Adobe actually listening? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k24EWjrDgC0&t=11s

I still open Premiere once a week for the same reasons you mentioned, but I stopped using it for editing. I cannot afford to waste an extra 20% of my time on every project just because the software does not work as it should. My clients will never cover that added cost.

On the other hand, DVR has its own strengths that bring extra value to the final result. You can live without them, of course, but once you have them you use them, and over time it shows clearly in the output.

Hehe, yeah, I switched to the competition already a couple of years ago, was quite enthousiastic about DR, but stumbled upon practical problems (like handling a lof of seperate sequences at the same time for e-learning purposes...long story, but those e-learning movies are being used modular and managing that in DR was quite a pain in the ass), I also don't like the way DR handles files and projects. Premiere is more straight forward. DR also had other issues that made me come back to Premiere again. But that most of my clients use After Effects to make MOGRT'S is one of the biggest issues. I don't have time to remake everything in Fusion.

Do yourself a massive favor: switch to the competition. After two challenging months of re-learning, you'll be the happiest editor on Earth.

I wish I could flood this post with gifs of Shia Labeouf aviciously applauding because this is how WE (professional editors) feel. Thank you for bumping this post in a brutally honest and acurate way. 

The only 'solution' to this for me has been exclusively working in proxis. No exceptions. No matter how small or large the project or the size, format or codec of the footage. EVERY project gets proxies immediately. Even still, this workflow of generating thumbs, re-rendering the timeline (after I did once again before clocking ou the day before) and basically enjoying a cup of coffee while Premier gets fired up is a daily rhythm to my work day..

Dear Adobe,

I have posted this original message here five years ago. In the post I mentioned that I already had this problem for two years, so basically the problem for me already exists for around 7 years. This weekend I filmed an after movie for a two day festival. Two days, ten hours filming per day, resulting in 615 seperate shots in total. I think you could probably guess what happend today when I started editing. Tremendously anoying footage spotting, because the only thumbnails that are being generated are the ones directly visible in my footage bin. Still, like seven years ago, I have to scroll down a bit, wait untill those thumbnails are being generated, scroll down a bit and wait untill those thumbnails are being generated, scroll down.....wait....scroll down....wait. I think you get the point. And next time when I start the project......indeed....I have to start all over again.

Ofcourse in those seven years I upgraded my editing hardware, hoping the issue would be resolved with a new motherboard, a better processor (i7-13700K), a new graphics card (an RTX 3060 with 12 gb of vRAM), Seperate SSD's for editing and caching and plenty of RAM (32gb). I even invested in buying Davinci Resolve, which to be honest isn't perfect also, but at least is fast. The sad thing is that I am being dependend of Adobe because with most of my clients it is still the standard way to go when it comes to projects and brand identity made in After Effects, and I think I am not the only one in this situation.

To be honest, I don't need stuff like AI generated extending of shots, because I am a professional and know how long to press the record button. I don't need AI tagging of footage to find stuff, because I know what is being filmed and I know how to find stuff by myself. I don't need a new "fancy" import function, because there was (and stilll is) already a way to import footage, working just fine.

I believe you already have video editing software focussed on amateurs. Since Adobe Premiere (oh....wait...I almost forgot the PRO there) is focussed on and being used by professionals, just keep premiere PRO than. Listen to the users and focus on stuff that is actually needed by us. Year by year the price goes up, but we end up paying a pro-price for "disfunctional" software.

Don't get me wrong, I think a lot of us share love for Premiere since it is still amazing software to use, but please keep it amazing and focus on what is really needed before giving us all that other crap. If you look around on this forum you can find traces of tips that users give to improve the software. Stuff that is actually useful, like showing the audio waveform underneath the footage in the source panel, or something simple like by default deselecting all the attributes in the 'remove attributes' function so you don't need to deselected all of them everytime one by one when you only need one of the attrributes being removed, just to name two. Please take this stuff seriously because we are the ones that are actually using the software. We are the ultimate "beta-testers".

Maybe it is time to convince your shareholders that improving the core of your software is important to keep your customers. I understand that AI is a fun gimmick for marketing purposes, but it won't last if the rest of the software is not living up to the expectations and price.

I feel you. It's so ridicolous.

Just swtich to Davinci Resolve. It seems that Adobe is too busy to count money instead to manage their suite from someone that work in that specific sector daily. Premiere is not meant to be developed by someone that makes video montage, is like ok I have to develop this but WHO CARES. I'm really about to replace every single software with other ones developed by someone that actually works with that software in the real work. Tired of paying this bugged suite monthly for having this scrap softwares.

Time to change to resolve.

Intel 14900K, 192GB 6400Mhz, Gen. 5 NVme, Rtx 4090 and still waiting many minuts edit after edit, btw. On my Mac M4 Base, this wont happen, all work pretty well. Lazy Adobe, please do something. Dont give us extend generation, we need stable and fast software.