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brianbbb
brianbbb
Inspiring
July 30, 2019
Question

Extremely slow preview of footage from older sequence

  • July 30, 2019
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I've been working on a couple projects where I need to grab some clips from an old project, so I import a couple sequences from other Premiere files. Once I do that, everything comes to a near standstill. It takes 20-30 seconds just for a view of any of the newly imported clips to show up in the Program window. The footage in the original timeline plays mostly OK, a little slow, but the newly imported clips in that timeline take forever to appear in the preview, and do not play at all.

I've turned off effects, lowered the playback and paused resolution to 1/4, cleaned the media cache, updated Nvidia drivers, made sure the clips were on a fast 7200 rpm drive.

What's really weird, is the first project I was having trouble with seems to be OK now after a couple of days, playback is pretty smooth.

Has anyone had problems like this? Thx

4k files on a Windows machine, 32GB, Premiere 13.1.2

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    SamLanes
    Inspiring
    July 31, 2019

    This could be the result of Premiere 'consolidating' the footage as it is imported. In the bottom right of the sequence panel, you may see a blue indicator which shows the progress of the consolidation. Does the playback speed improve once this is complete?

    I have also occasionally noticed that this process takes a while to complete when importing projects that were originally from older versions of Premiere, and haven't yet really found a faster way to deal with it.

    Do you have the same problem if you import the clips directly (rather than via a project import)? If you are only working with a few specific clips, perhaps this might be more efficient?

    brianbbb
    brianbbbAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 31, 2019

    Yeah, I get the "Media Pending" window and the blue indicator, but this is long after all that has finished. I imported a couple clips directly, and they work fine. Then I tried opening the old sequence, copying the clips from the timeline and pasting them into the new timeline, and that also seems to work fine, and it keeps my trimming, color correction and metadata notes, so that's great because it's hundreds of clips that I'm working with.

    So it's something to do with importing an old sequence through Dynamic Link server.

    Thanks for the reply.

    ... oops, after copying the clips, Premiere just crashed - time to restart and see what I've got.

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