Media Managing resulting to big file sizes

[simon96727966]

Hey Everyone,

I work for a sports media company doing highlights, promos and preview videos. We edit from broadcast recordings which has 8 channels of audio recorded in Apple ProRes 422 LT. A 5-hour recording is about 240 gig. I use these files with different camera angles in my timeline and i have no issues delivering final exported files until i media manage the whole project, resulting to a whopping 400 gig of files for a 3 min video. It seems like it's copying the whole file and not just the transcoded files with 100 frames handles. It only happens in some files and not all. Some files are as small as 24mb and some are 200gig.

Has any of you experienced this? Any recomended settings or effects i need to consider. I figure some clips that has slowmo or speed ramps on my timeline are causing to copy the whole file but not all the time so i really can't figure what's the issue. I would appreciate any help. Thanks!

Simon

[Sami Succar]

Hey Simon,

I feel your pain. Premiere Pro's media management has always been a bit of a thorn in our sides.

Unfortunately, I don’t have a solution for this issue (and I really doubt anyone has). It's one of those quirks we've learned to work around over the years. It might not be the most satisfying answer, but lowering your expectations on Premiere’s media management might save you some headaches down the line.

Please upvote this post, hopefully catching the developers' attention to address this sore, frustrating, maddening, life-threatening, hair-pulling, and sleep-depriving issue.

Best of luck!

[Nicolas from Autokroma]

Hey !

Yeah the Project Manager works for some cases and others not. It does not give a clear report of what happens and why sadly. 

Do you know PlumePack ? It's a third party plugin for Premiere Pro we develop at Autokroma, which is like a Project Manager but with more features, better report of what is done and less issues while processing. There is a FREE version you can test : it is just for copy but the report should tell you what would be the result with Trimming (Premium Feature). "Trimming" is done without re-encoding, so you don't loose any quality on your media ! Note that Speed Ramp is a limitation in PlumePack, but not Speed Changed (Slowmo) ! 😉 

Give it a try ! Download and More info in our website : https://www.autokroma.com/PlumePack
And if you have any trouble/suggestion/feedback, we have a quick support !

Best,

Nicolas from Autokroma