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talented_member1587
talented_member1587
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August 25, 2021
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Next/Previous Clip Shortcut causing Lag?

  • August 25, 2021
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This is a new glitch that wasn't happening on the same file yesterday (yes, I saved and restarted computer/PP before asking this question). I'm working on dialogue stringout for an episodic, using the pancake editing method (pulling from selects in source monitor to add clips to the dialogue stringout in timeline). All clips have proxies (and proxy mode is enabled). Yesterday it went fast with no lagging at all. Today, every time I insert a clip from the source monitor and use the "next clip" keyboard shortcut to go to the right place for the next insert, I get the spinning wheel for about 5-10 seconds before it jumps the play head to the next clip. It's not the biggest lag, I know, but it's slowing down my work and making this stringout take longer than I'd prefer.

 

As far as I know, I've not changed anything, other than saving and closing/reopening PP and restarting the computer. If anything, it should have been happening yesterday because I had Safari open with a LOT of active tabs and a couple of other apps running. As opposed to today, when I've only got PP open. The spinning wheel doesn't happen when I'm jumping around in the timeline between clips or scrubbing. It only happens after I do an insert from the source monitor. Has anyone had this issue come up?

 

Thanks!

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Vishu_Aggarwal
Vishu_Aggarwal
Participating Frequently
August 25, 2021

Try cleaning the Media cache files and database by going to preferences > Media Cache...I also check the remaining space in the boot drive. Or have you updated the OS or video drivers?.

 

You can also try resetting the preferences of premiere pro

 

To reset preferences, follow this step: - 

 

  • Press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) while launching Premiere Pro. You can release the Alt key or Option key when the splash screen appears.

Vishu AggarwalAdobe Certified Instructor, Professional and Expert
talented_member1587
talented_member1587Author
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August 25, 2021

Thank you so much for your answer. 

 

I've deleted the media cache and will see if that will help. OS is fully up to date, and as far as I can tell, the Mac OS update also updates the video drivers? (at least according to a Sweetwater page I just referenced when trying to figure out how/where to update the media drivers) (but if I'm wrong on that, I'm happy to update them once I figure out how to do that process on my Mac).

 

In terms of resetting preferences on PP, will that mean that everything I've customized (like keyboard shortcuts and workspace customizations) will be lost? I'd rather avoid that if I can.

 

Hopefully the cache will resolve the problem. I still have 250 gb available on the boot drive and so I don't think that was the problem. But even with proxies enabled, I was getting the spinning wheel every time I tried to move the play head on the timeline, which wasn't happening yesterday. So, fingers crossed.

 

Speaking of proxies - when using proxies that were created for clips that eventually got merged/sync'd via the Multicam tool, I'm guessing that the "Fx" label on those Multicam sequences means that it's referencing the proxy and not trying to scrub through the 4K footage? Or do I need to something in addition to turning Proxy mode on in the timeline to get proxies to work with Multicam sequences? Only bringing this up in case this is the culprit and I'm not actually using the proxy mode correctly with Multicams.

 

Thanks!

 

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