Icon view - thumbnails loading extremely slow

[janvozenilek]

I'm in the latest version of premiere. I have my clips in my bin, turn on thumbnail view.  I have to wait a long time for these thumbnails to load.  They don't load in the background, only if I physically scroll down and sit there and wait for them each time.  I then find my clip, go to another folder with my audio, but when I return to my clips folder, the thumb nails are  gone and I start the entire process all over. Losing my mind here!!  Any suggestions please?

And re: additional improvements....  why can't we have thumbnails in LIST view?  This was available already in version 4.2 in the early 2000's!!   

And  why can't the  thumbnails be smaller also?

Thanks!

[janvozenilek]

Found the answer to my second and third question...  buried in the menus.

No luck on the slow loading of the thumbs still.  Thank you

[Kevin-Monahan]

janvozenilek,

We could use more info about your system, media drives, GPU, and media type.

Thanks,
Kevin

[phil knox]

Classic Adobe response - defer the issue to the users system. If you look online, this issue of thumbnail caching is a common one. I'm facing this myself - a bin with 100 clips or so that every time I reopen, it has to regenerate the thumbs, wasting time. Have searched quite a lot for a solution but I think this is just a Premiere shortcoming.,

[Urmaseero]

Yes, I am absolutely agree with You.  Why is it so slow process, and every time it starts again and again? I have quite complicated project and its really disturbing process. Why can't AP remember them.  In previous versions  it worked even quicker. Right now I have AP version 14.        

And don't blame my machine.   It's a beast-  WIN 10, 64 bit, RAM 64 GB,  AMD Ryzen9 3900X 12-Core Processor 3.79 GHZ,  NVIDIA Geoforce RTX 2070 SUPER. 

For example in AVID everything opens in one second. Everything-- icluded all thumbnails. ALL at once.  

[MMYYKK]

I'm I've been experiencing this same issue, and it seems worse with the latest version. 

Reading and writing to Sandisk Extreme Pro USB-C SSD (950mb/s Read and Write speed)

4K MPEG-4 files. 

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[quick squirrel]

Could you please share the answer with us?

[Urmaseero]

Yes, I am absolutely agree with You.  Why is it so slow process, and every time it starts again and again? I have quite complicated project and its really disturbing process. Why can't AP remember them.  In previous versions  it worked even quicker. Right now I have AP version 14.        

And don't blame my machine.   It's a beast-  WIN 10, 64 bit, RAM 64 GB,  AMD Ryzen9 3900X 12-Core Processor 3.79 GHZ,  NVIDIA Geoforce RTX 2070 SUPER. 

For example in AVID everything opens in one second. Everything-- icluded all thumbnails. ALL at once.  

[Urmaseero]

Just for example. Its a clean project without any sequence. To show hundred of still images thumbnails takes a lot of time.  And AP cant remember them. Every time you open the project it starts to load them again and again. 

[thuryn974]

Wich is why i threw the towel with Adobe, and went to Davinci Resolve...case closed!

Are you even listening Adobe??

[Itam]

I have the same problem already for a long time. On Adobe User Voice there is an ongoing topic about it. Maybe good to upvote the topic: https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/33849352-save-thumbnails-ca...

[GabrieleLS]

Hello! I have the same issue.

A possible workaround is explained in this video: https://youtu.be/gCQfpimN0PI

Of course, disabling the "H264 hardware accelerated decoding" feature can create other issues, but my tests showed a massive improvement in thumbnails loading times: https://youtu.be/DibqbII1pws

Another option could be creating ProRes proxies and enabling them. Since ProRes is not hardware accelerated on Windows machines, I guess the thumbnail loading times could improve (I haven't tested that).