Beach ball when trimming and moving clips

[PaoloGr]

Hi

I already posted about a problem on my Macbook Pro. Premiere Pro won't start on that machine.

On my Imac Pro it runs. However, when editing I have a problem.

When I split a clip and trim it, the beach ball will appear for a couple of seconds. 

If I try to move a clip on the timeline forward or backwards same thing: the beach ball appears for a few seconds.

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This make the editing ectremely long.

Any help?

Thanks

[D Graham Withers]

I'm having the same issue with multiclips using Productions 25.2.3, Lucid Link for the project file and a Mac Studio M2 Ultra - a real pain!  You ever figure it out?

In the past, rebuilding the cache has worked but I'm getting no love.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi D,

Thanks for the message. What happens if the media is on a local drive? Do you still have the issue? What kind of footage is it? Let the community know. I hope we can assist. 

Thanks,
Kevin

[D Graham Withers]

Thanks Kevin!

The media is on an 8 drive RAID 5 connected by TB3 so should be plenty speedy.
I'm not having the issue in other projects and simpler sequences so I started a new sequence with fewer clips and the issue resolves but I'm worried about the timeline gettting longer/more complicated again as I'm on a feature doc.

The media is a mix of DV NTSC 29.97 &  1080P H265 multicam clips but the beachball happens on both types of media.   I've tried flattening the multicam clips & disabling the unused audio tracks in the multicam clips to no avail. 

Of course, I'd usually start with proxies for the H265 material but I wasn't having trouble until the timeline's gotten longer...  Maybe Premiere gets overwhelmed bringing things into RAM when the trim tool is enabled?

As playback is smooth, I hoping not to go through the trouble of proxies if that isn't going to address what's going on.  Thx y'all!

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hey D,

Thanks for the info. Sounds like your media might be the issue. You could try transcoding a few DV clips to 1080p H.265 at the same frame ratel. Then, see if your performance improves. I hope that works for you. Let me know how it goes. Good luck.

Thanks,
Kevin

[D Graham Withers]

Good call - as I was writing the last post, I was coming to a similar conclusion!

I'll do some transcoding/testing and report back.

Graham