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Hey group, I have an incredibly frustrating issue that's been occurring on some of my projects.
I have autosaves set for every 5 minutes. If the autosave window pops up while I'm mid-task, like pressing the space bar to play back, clicking to make a cut, or doing any sort of navigation, Premiere will instantly lock up. I'm on a Mac, so I get the spinning wheel, the autosave never completes, and Premiere hangs indefinitely.
I'm regularly editing in a crunch with a need to move quickly, and I find that this happens incredibly often -- currently occurring once or twice an hour while working, and as the project size increases, this gets worse. The only solution is a force quit, praying that the previous autosave was recent (I find that the autosaves are often not truly saving every 5 minutes) or that I manually saved not long ago. Between this current project and other projects, I've lost hours of work.
Why not just turn off autosaves and save manually, you ask? I've also experienced such freezes when I'm saving manually. For some reason, I find that deselecting all assets on my timeline seems to lessen the likelihood of a crash during manual saves. But who knows, this could also be superstition.
Context:
Perhaps unrelated?
In conclusion, I'm on my 20th version of this particular project. Each copy has been created because of a crash where I've lost work, and each one gets me closer to flipping my desk and tossing my machine out the window. If anyone has ideas, I'm all ears.
Absolutely sucks. It really breaks your concentration and workflow, and you're always on edge and tense waiting for it to happen... almost like ptsd. It's no way to work. Editing should be fun and enjoyable.
There is a temporary solution (though it's not a great one).
> Import your whole project into a fresh one. Normally works
> Break it into smaller projects. Definately works
It mainly starts happening once the project file goes above 50-60mg approx. This seems to be key. Premiere projects tend
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Exact same thing is happening to me 😞
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This is user to user forum where we users help each other. The Adobe engeneers do not always read everything here. If you feel strongly about a (new)feature or (bug) fix please post it on uservoice, as it will be read by the engeneers.
https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro
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Still happening in 2022. Adobe is just so incredibly frustrating at times. Premiere is the most buggy mess you could possibly imagine. Doesn't matter the computer, the version of software, mac or pc it just isn't good.
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I have this exact same issue. Especially if autosave pops up if I'm pressing the space bar or something, then I know I'm screwed and I lost the last 5-10 minutes of work. Again.
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Absolutely sucks. It really breaks your concentration and workflow, and you're always on edge and tense waiting for it to happen... almost like ptsd. It's no way to work. Editing should be fun and enjoyable.
There is a temporary solution (though it's not a great one).
> Import your whole project into a fresh one. Normally works
> Break it into smaller projects. Definately works
It mainly starts happening once the project file goes above 50-60mg approx. This seems to be key. Premiere projects tend to get bigger and bigger the more you do... almost like it's keeping a log of every edit you've made.
Importing into a fresh one seems to clear out a lot of shite and clutter.
Not great, but at least you can get on with your work, and relax and enjoy it.
Cheers