Importing large files stuck on processing

[brad28054206wb4w]

Hello, I'm trying to import large video files to Premiere pro with no luck. Files that are as big as 600gb are fine but when it comes to anything up to 1tb, I'm stuck on processing and does not import when attempting to. Is it possible to import these videos anyway? I would rather avoid rendering these files again! Photos attached. Thanks.

 

 

[Mike Dziennik]

Can I ask what the origin of the file is? A single 1.95TB file is massive. What's the resolution, frame-rate, codec & duration?

It's not uncompressed is it?

I'm not aware of any filesize limitation that would cause this necessarily, but I've never tried importing a file that big.

[brad28054206wb4w]

They're ProRes 422 HQ videos exported from Insta360 at 8k 30fps. The same video files that are under 1tb import fine, but it seems like anything above 1tb is just showing processing... I also have them importing from a hard drive as my comp does not have the space for these files. 

[Peru Bob]

 have them importing from a hard drive as my comp does not have the space for these files. 

By @brad28054206wb4w

You may not have enough free space on your system drive for temp files.

What are the hard drives (how many, what kind, what is on each, what capacity, and how full)?

[brad28054206wb4w]

The computer I'm working on does not exceed 1TB. I have two 20tb and an 8tb drive, 8tb has only ~5tb worth of data written to it so far and the two 20s are just about full. I tried every hard drive and same issue occurs. Do you think if I were working with a computer that had more disk space this issue would still exist? I'm not sure what is all involved when importing a file into Premiere... 

[Peru Bob]

Where are the Media Cache files located?

Which drive is the system drive?

What is on each drive (media, cache, etc.)?

[brad28054206wb4w]

I have the media cache set for my computer and also tried setting to one of the other hard drives. 

[Averdahl]

Hello, I'm trying to import large video files to Premiere pro with no luck. Files that are as big as 600gb are fine but when it comes to anything up to 1tb, I'm stuck on processing and does not import when attempting to. 

By @brad28054206wb4w

I tried to create a large 8K file and it became 2,5TB, Apple ProRes 422HQ. That file imports instanlty and play back as expected. The RAM usage does climb up to 24GB so with less RAM i can see why Premiere Pro struggles and the same goes if the file is on a USB or LAN connection.

Regarding free space, the amount of TB free says nothing, the amount of free space in % says everything.

[brad28054206wb4w]

Hmm I have a Mac Studio with 8TB SSD and 128gb mem coming next month so hopefully I have transfer a file over to the computer disk if import doesn't work straight from the external drive. I am very excited that you were able to import that large of a file, if I could go back and re process my files I would have done something like H264 but wanted best quality possible so went with ProRes 🙃. I will give it a shot when the mac studio arrives and report back!