Freezing Playback, Media Pending, No Saved Prvw Files -on Pr 6 Cloud.

Freezing Playback, Media Pending, No Saved Prvw Files -on Pr 6 Cloud.
My Creative Cloud Pr 6 is freezing video on the timeline and it's driving me crazy. Can't work all day. I've checked all my system settings and all seem to be okay. Running Creative Cloud on Win 7. 16GB RAM with 12GB dedicated for Pr, Ae, Ps etc. 138GB free on C Drive and 1TB free on project drive. I'm working with HDV video from Panasonic HMC150 1080/60i and 1080/30p. What's wrong and what can I do? I just found out there are no "Saved Preview Files" in the Pr Preview folder. "Media Pending" constantly showing when attempting to playback from timeline, even with 1/4 or 1/2 playback resolution. Timeline video display head showing thumbnail of a completely different video clip. My video card (EVGA GTX 580) is getting hot excessively. It's inbuilt fan is ok. All system fans are ok. I had to put extra fans on it. Product update issue or what? Thank you. I need help.

Hello Jim.
Thanks again for the link. I thought that would help but I started another project and the timelinve video was freezing on a 10 minute AVCHD clip.
It even freezes on a 2 minute clip, so spanning is not the cause of the problem. My system is running on only 6Gb of my 16Gb RAM, so memory is not the issue.
What else can be the problem?
Meanwhile, my C Drive is filling up real fast with Pr cache files. I deleted the ccache file in it's folder and cleaned up cache files through Pr. Could that be the problem?
Most of the clips I'm working with were imported before the cache cleanup/delete. Even at that, the cache folder has grown about 80GB after the cleanup?
I mostly use Pr, Ps and En, Ae once in a while.
Thanks

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Hello,
Many thanks for your very long reply and your interest in my problems.
I shall try to answer you :
- 1) OS : Windows 7 64 bits Pro SP1, french,
                 Version : 6.1.7601.18247 (Win7RTM)
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- 3) Yes my GPU driver is updated (Nvidia GeForce 332.21 dated 12/19/2014).
I never had thiese problems with PP CS6 + Encore CS6 and my projects
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length (in PP CS6 : sequences up to 45 minutes, in Encore CS6 chapters
up to the same time).
The difference between are in my hardware :
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- 4) I shall try up to the disk burn to check if the problem is just due
to display of "animated buttons".
I hope my answer will be usefull for you.
Regards,
Jacques Gourier.
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Sign out from Creative Cloud, restart Premiere Pro, then sign in
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Hello,
Many thanks for your very long reply and your interest in my problems.
I shall try to answer you :
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6) Adobe recommends not editing until the conforming and indexing has completed itself-- how important is this?
7) Sometimes it appears as though the conforming and indexing has finished, but then I still have problems with playback. Do I have to reopen the project for it to continue with the conforming/indexing progress? I've already determined that the video file I'm working with is intact and free of any corruption.
I'm fine with having to wait for a project to conform and index, but it never seems to complete itself! Any help regarding this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Harm filled in pretty much all the salient details, but I'll do another pass here.
1) How do I avoid error messages in regards to indexing and conforming
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No.
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5) If I have approximately 1 hour of footage, what's an average wait time for conforming/indexing? What about 5 hours of footage? 10?
Like Harm said. Totally dependant on the media container & the speed of your drive i/o. The conforming is iterating through the entire file & pulling audio data, so it's not CPU intensive, it's all i/o.
6) Adobe recommends not editing until the conforming and indexing has completed itself-- how important is this?
If you're trying to play/scrub while conforming, it's going to be pokey. Esp. if you're trying to access the file that's actively being conformd. As I just said, we're hitting the files for all the audio. The i/o is being saturated already, so unless you have a stellar raid, you don't have much headroom.
7) Sometimes it appears as though the conforming and indexing has finished, but then I still have problems with playback. Do I have to reopen the project for it to continue with the conforming/indexing progress? I've already determined that the video file I'm working with is intact and free of any corruption.
You should be good to go. Sounds like there's something else at play here.
Okay, back to what I think is wrong: you don't mention what kind of external drives you're using. You're making a bad assumption that blowing away conformed files & doing a reconform is buggy - I doubt it, as that's the same process that happened when you initially brought in the files. I've blown away my media cache folder multiple times and have never seen failures on reconform. So it's got to be one of two things: either a read error from the source when attempting to pull the audio, or a write error to the destination. Now I don't know where you currently are pointing the media cache directory, or what your source drive is, so I can only speculate.
My suggestion is to do some elimination. Copy one of the files that failed on you to your C drive, & target your media cache directory also to C:. Pick a new project, import your copied file, confirm that it conforms correctly & behaves. Then, try to use the same clip from your external drive, keeping the media cache to C:. If that's still good, then try targeting another (local/internal) drive as your media cache target; close/restart, then import the clip from C:, and then import the clip from your external drive. This troubleshooting should give us something.
PS, if you're trying to edit from external USB drives, good luck. I find it a major PITA that I avoid as much as possible. Firewire isn't much better. I know some people do it successfully, but I think it's a road fraught with peril. These devices are generally not designed for heavy duty I/O and a flaky connection or drive is nothing but pain.
Cheers

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Removing the /3GB switch while troubleshooting has long been one of the Quick Tips in this troubleshooting page.
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Media pending/black screen with Matrox vfw codec

Hi everyone.
Recently I installed the Matrox vfw codec from http://www.matrox.com/video/en/support/windows/vfw_software_codecs/downloads/softwares/ver sion1.0/build33/, and I mostly use that for capturing footage from video games. (using "matrox mpeg2 i-frame hd"). The problem is when I import the .avi created into Adobe Premiere Pro CC, I only hear the sound, and the "media pending" message/black screen stays forever. When I use Virtualdub, I don't have any problem concerning the playback.
Do you have any idea how to solve this problem?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Antony

Thanks for the response.
Part of my problem is that until recently, I was able to import avi files to iMovie, which automatically converted them to DV format. But I was recently forced to erase my hard drive and reload the software, and this black screen problem iss the result.
Incidentally, I do have VisualHub, and following your suggestion, I decided to try that option, but ran into another problem. When I tried to launch VisualHub, I got this message, which you or someone else may be able to help me with:
"Fatal System Error
Critical components of Mac OS X are missing or damaged on your system. Without them, VisualHub is unable to continue.
The affected components is/are:
- uuencode/uudecode. This may require a reinstallation of Mac OS X.
- gzip compression library. This may require a reinstallation of Mac OS X.
- bzip2 compression library. This may require a reinstallation of Mac OS X.
VisualHub will now quit."

Media Pending - Premiere CC very sluggish

Hi all, I'm a brand new Premiere CC user. I have a new project consisting of Canon c300 and DSLR footage.
Everything imported fine. The problem is, when I double click on a clip in the Project Window, Premiere is extremely sluggish, and shows "Media Pending" for around 30 seconds or so before the media becomes visible in the Source Window.
Furthermore, all the other clips in the Project Window remain in "Media Pending" for a minute or more, and only the ones visible on my screen seem to load (if I scroll down in the Project Window, the clips that were below the screen haven't loaded, so I have to wait again). Once they have "loaded," it seems to behave fine, but this is a terribly slow way to work.
I've tried unchecking both XMP buttons in Preferences, cleaned Media Cache within the program, and emptied out the "Media Cache" folder in Common manually (however I did not touch the "Media Cache Files" folder yet - should I?)
Here are my specs:
Windows 7 64bit SP1
Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 2.4 GHz
6GB Ram
7200 RPM Hard Drive
NVidia Quadro NVS 285
-Win7 is on C:
-Premiere is installed to C: (Internal 7200 drive)
-All Scratch Disks set to D: (another 7200 Internal HD).
-All Media is on M: (a third 7200 Internal HD).
I'm aware this isn't the newest computer, but even the c300 the files play back smoothly. So I doubt that's the bottleneck.
Can someone help me? It's going to be difficult or impossible to use Premiere if there is constantly a 1+ minute wait to simply open a bin and be able to view footage.

Hi Metrolens,
metrolens wrote:
Thanks Kevin.
So you're saying there's no doubt that this specific problem is caused by an underpowered machine?
The Media Pending issue is indexing that needs to be done before a file can play. The fact that your media loses the indexing when scrolling out of view, but will playback the clips that are indexed seems to me to be an issue with your computer hardware.
metrolens wrote:
Will a new video card correct the issue? Can you suggest one I might consider?
Though your system should work based on the minimum system requirements, I would recommend a new GPU and a new CPU. An Intel Core2 Duo will still likely provide very low performance and you get no GPU acceleration with that video card. Here are the minimum system requirements: System requirements | Adobe Premiere Pro
Thanks,
Kevin

Help Please with media pending problem!!

I've been using PP CS6 for a couple of years on a Rain system with no problems at all. Yesterday evening I deleted several old files on my scratch disc, one of them I think contained all of the cache files for all the projects on that drive. Now every project I open it takes forever to load the media, and I get "media pending" Once it all does load I can't hardly play it back because it keeps locking up. I have several projects that I have to get out and am really in a bind here, can anyone give me a hand??

Ronin,
If we're talking about a laptop, then are you running the 2630 or 2630qm? Most likely the qm version, no? It appears that the 2630qm DOES have integrated graphics:
http://ark.intel.com/products/52219/Intel-Core-i7-2630QM-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-2_90-GHz
You ALSO have an NVIDIA card. Again "Optimus" is simply an "Apple-ism" (like "Retina" or "Flash Storage") for Integrated (aka On-board) graphics working in tandem WITH a more powerful graphics card (i.e. the gtx 560m). I would take a serious look at disabling it via the instructions in the link I sent previously. They may not even have thought up the moniker "Optimus" when your laptop was released. I don't know. Regardless, when the computer tries to switch between the on-board (power-saving and weak) graphics card to the NVIDIA card, you might experience exactly the type of symptoms you've described.
By way of example: Take the Asus g75vx. It comes stock with a 3630qm chip. The 3630qm has no option for on-board graphics at all (aka Intel HD 3000, 4000, etc). The g75vx comes with a gtx 670mx, but if paired with the "wrong" i7 mobile chip, it might just as easily have on-board (Intel HD) graphics, too.
Another way to check might be to open up Device Manager and see what entries are listed under under Display Adapters.

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