Save thumbnails cache for project panel thumbnail view

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

The processing of thumbs at each opening of the project is really distressing. I would like to have the option to save these metadata at disk for faster start.

[Bernd Schäffer]

I thought I will do one more project before switch to DaVinci, but this has been a mistake. It's ridicolous how long media takes to be ready for editing. My computer ressources are close to 0% used and it looks like nothing is happening. A snail is faster at this point. It really kills the creative mood.

I already know many pro editors who avoid Premiere Pro for big projects because of such issues.

[Kino002]

2/03/2023 and the same absurd problem, what the hell

[imsandrogarcia]

Maybe we just need to cancel our subscriptions and resorting to the P word.

[DJP2014]

I really started to notice today how much time I waste waiting on thumbnails to generate.

C'mon Adobe, this is a core feature. At least set the status to Under Review.

[mayjain]

Hi All,

Sorry for the problem. We have added GPU support for thumbnails in the latest beta builds, and we believe thumbnails generation should be quicker and more efficient now. 

Please check out the latest beta build version from the creative cloud and let us know how it goes there.

You can download the latest Beta builds from Creative Cloud --> Beta apps
https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/creative-cloud-public-beta.html

If you still face this issue, please share your project files(&media) here https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/share.html and we will check on our end.

Thanks,
Mayjain

[mjshade]

Thanks for your attention to this problem. This sounds like a step in the right direction, but will the fix also include a cache of thumbnails so that they only need to be generated once? 

[sotiris_tseles]

I just downloaded the Beta build today, and didn't see any significant difference, and I have a pretty strong PC, latest build per Puget Systems specifications. Maybe even a little slower thumbnail generation.

PC is fully updated, so nothing wrong there.

Why can't you just save the thumbnails, since you are generating them in the first place?

You are generating the peak files for instance and store them, why can't you do the same with thumbnails?

I tried out DaVinci the other day and it really has huge differences in many areas, while Premiere is lagging behind.

Speedwise also, the difference is quite massive.

[David23633973yjr1]

Thank you for working on this, I think what people want is a cache.

[DJP2014]

Really glad you are working on speeding up the process but it's not really the time it takes, it's that it needs repeating - usually when a director is sat beside me and i'm looking for a clip in a huge bin of cutaway!

[mayjain]

Thanks @mjshade , @sotiris_tseles , @David23633973yjr1 , @DJP2014 for the valuable feedback. We will continue to look at it and update this thread with details again in future.

Thanks,
Mayjain

[Pierre Louis B.]

I just tested it and thumbnails are rendering much faster.  It's nice to see critical workflow issue is finally being worked on.  Thank you!

Hopefully this solves the issue with stuttering/choppy playback when Pr renders thumbnails during playback as new clips coming into view in the Timeline.

As others have mentioned, thumbnail caching would be the ideal solution.

I noticed that the thumbnails on/off setting in the Project window's list view is now sticky, so it it's set to on or off, it will keep the same setting when reopening the project.  Thank you for this!

As for the rendering of thumbnails in the Project window and Timeline, why doesn't Pr render all thumbnails in the background, rathern than only once clips are brought into view?

[sotiris_tseles]

Hello again,

Today Premiere beta received another update and still the previews are software generated...

I double checked by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F12, and cheching Importer.MPEG, all the frames are software generated.

I checked my settings again and didn't find anything out of place. I have an intel latest generation processor, a strong GPU, all updated to their latest drivers per manufacturer, windows 11 Pro are updated as well, GPU acceleration is enabled.

I have diabled GPU Scheduling though from windows because Premiere was buggy with it enabled.

Do I do something wrong, or is it something from your end?

I believe though that a thumbnail cache would be the best possible solution.

[Pyromk1]

I'd be really interested to know the reasoning as to why Adobe seem to be ignoring the idea of a thumbnail cache. It would speed up so many peoples workflows! 
I have no interest in half of the new AI tools being added. I just want a faster workflow. This would save me hours of work per project. 

[AdrianCohorta]

I came here to check this and, man, it's almost 2025 and this problem hasn't been fixed yet. Good that they're improving the UI instead. 

[amalm26650634]

I'm frustrated that Adobe hasn't addressed a key feature hindering editor efficiency. A persistent thumbnail cache would greatly improve performance, instead of regenerating thumbnails every time I reopen a project or adjust thumbnail size in the bin.

I've tried Autokroma's Influx importer (v1.5.1), which excels in thumbnail handling, but unfortunately, it causes memory overflow issues during editing.

As we approach 2025, with technology advancing rapidly, I urge Adobe to consider our feedback and implement a thumbnail cache similar to Influx. This would significantly enhance the editing experience.

[MarkHawk]

I have a huge travel vlog I am working on, and every time I close the project, I need to re-cache over a dozen folders with a lot of clips each, almost manually. It feels insane not to have these thumbnails cache anywhere or at least generate in the background each time I open the project. I basically need to dedicate an hour to manually opening each folder, using ` the key to expose the entire bin, and then going through the folders one by one until they're done loading. This is silly... what are we doing here? Jan 2025, latest build, dumb expensive/powerful computer.

[Daniel_Peterson]

Also adding my annoyance to the chain. Big project with many bins of video clips that I need to view in Icon View. Every time I open the project I have to manually go through each bin and scroll through the clips in Icon View to get all the thumbnails to load before I can do actual editing work... it wastes my time and is super annoying. Please, please just add the option to cache the Icon View thumbnails.

[fgiering]

same here. #timekiller

[phild96966408]

I received a notification as I posted on this thread years ago, go figure!

All I can say is that I switched to Davinci several years ago and haven’t looked back. Sure, there is a learning curve involved but the payoff is real. A much faster and more modern piece of software that simply doesn’t have issues like the one mentioned in this thread. Never mind the state-of-the-art colouring tools built right in so you don’t need to do any painful round tripping.

The cut page and speed editor are the fastest way of ingesting a lot of footage and making selects. DR really is the full package. AND NO SUBSCRIPTION!!

[Pierre Louis B.]

I'll have to give Davinci another look.  What's keeping me on Pr more than anything else is Excalibur (a plugin that allows you to assign keyboard shortcuts to just about anything, including multi-step macros).  With Excalibur, I can add transitions, effects, keyframes, move/rotate/resize a selection of clips at the same time, etc, all with keyboard shortcuts.  Do you know if there's anything like that for Davinci?

[Daniel_Peterson]

I'm looking into Resolve, if the tool's better it makes sense to use it, and I do like their business model over Adobe's. But as a user of After Effects, PrPro, Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom and Audition it's hard (not impossible) to replace all those apps and I do enjoy using them (mostly). Getting back to the focus of this thread, a few little tweaks like this can make a big difference. If only extra attention was given to workflow issues / ideas like this, that have been raised and upvoted for years, but not addressed properly (please take note Adobe staff)!