Memory leak issue

Based on this information, I would say the main point of concern I see is the project size - 300MB is very large.

I would suggest you break this project down into a Production - if you are not aware, a production is like a group of closely related projects. Start here. That will give you basic information.

The next step will be to break down your huge project into smaller projects within a production. The difficult part will be that you actually need to be able to open the project first for this to work. Start a blank production, then open the project in question, then break down the elements in the large project into smaller projects within the production. (by dragging into new projects, or copy and paste ... either way it will be slow going as both these actions require memory to perform). Alternately, you can try starting a new production and importing selected sequences from the project. Do this until you have all the old elements organized in a new production.

I am confident if you manage to do this you will see improvements in performance.

In future, productions (not just projects) should be used for large film projects like the one you are on.

(There's a related discussion of project sizes here, including comments from Mitch W, Adobe employee.)

R.

Hi Ashwath,

Thanks for the additional information.

The long timelines are most likely causing the memory leak. The first thing I suggest is to break your film into 20-minute reels. Here’s how you can do it:

1. Divide your project into multiple sequences, each about 20 minutes long. I recommend doing this using Sequence > Make Subsequence.
2. If you need to combine these reels, add the reels to a new sequence as nested sequences. This way, your working timelines stay short even if your film is long.

This should help reduce the memory usage and prevent the system from freezing.

I'm also curious, what connection are you using for your Lacie drive?

Let me know if this helps or if you need more assistance!

Thanks,
Paul