Premiere Saving Slowly

[Starvision3850]

I am working on an edit with 133 4k shots from an Arri Alexa.  The shots were recorded in ProRes444 (not RAW) but are still big.  I'm on a 2013 8 core Mac Pro.  My footage is on a Pegasus Raid connected by Thunderbolt 2.

The project takes about 7 seconds to save.  I hit save manually a LOT during editing just in case the project crashes and this 7 second save adds up.  Is there any way to get the save time back to around 1 second?

[DMH79]

Do you have any warp stabilizer applied? We use a ton and it takes a good 20 secs to save. Or anything else that makes the file size of the project file big? Our project files are usually around 200-400mb and take a while to save. And yeah, that auto-save thing is a buzz kill sometimes. It's necessary but it always makes us go "argh!" when it happens.

[Starvision3850]

I have no effects or color grading applied yet.  I just started putting footage on the timeline & noticed how slow the save process was taking.  My Premiere project is 49 megs.  I checked several other projects that I have completed (all HD with AF100 footage) and they are 60 to 120kb (not MB). 

Would the Alexa footage come with so much metadata that it inflates the file size like this?

[Starvision3850 · Accepted solution]

OK!  I am not clear whether this was just a corrupt project or if a more selective footage import fixed the problem, BUT!  Here's what I did & learned.

I had 10 folders of Alexa ProRes 4444 footage and each folder had two non-footage files in it, an .ale file and a .bin file (no clue what they do).  Originally, I imported the folder containing all of those files.  This time, I started with a fresh project and imported just the footage files from each folder.  It took a few minutes longer, but after bringing everything into the project that way, the Project file size is 748KB and it saves in an instant.

So... problem solved, but I'm not 100% sure which factor fixed it.  If I get time I will make a 3rd project and import the original way & see if I get the same inflated Project file again.

[Irisvideo]

I have quite a lot of warp stabilizer effects and it takes 50 secods to save!! the file size is 800MB.

so i deleted the effects on all clips, and its important to do this for ALL sequences, now the project is 3M and saves in a flash, thank god, and thank you. will do all the effects in the very final stage.