Huge Project file?

Does anyone know why my project file would have jumped from aroun 55 mb to over 500 upon upgrading to FCP 5? Its become rather cumbersome, taking a few minutes each time I go to save it, and about 5 minutes to open it in the first place. Any ideas?
Thanks

can't explain why its jumped in size but you might try remedying the situation by trying:
"Save As..." to save a new copy of the project
or "New Project" and copying and pasting entire contents of original projectc into new one, and saving
does either of those methods help in reducing the project size?

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Huge project file in Premiere CS6

Hello,
The project weight is almost 2 GB.
Is taking hours open my project file.
I have to send a edit by tomorrow but right now I don't know if I will be able to open my project to start editing.
I have read in your forums this is a common bug but nobody say how can be solved, I already lost all day waiting and I can't be waiting all night to start the editing at early morning, this is totally insane.
I'm editing in a Macbook Pro Retina with 16 GB of RAM.
I edited a lot in this computer with this software version ( CS6 ) and never got this problem.
In this project are sequences with Magic Bullet effects and Warp Stabilizer but this can't be an excuse, must be a solution for this because I already lost 8 hours looking to my screen.

Hello again,
After the storm I will explain what happend.
I had to wait until morning to have open the project, and there was another complication, Premiere was acting weird and incredibly slow so what I did was save the projec with another different name, and something unexpected occurred, the new project weight was 1.55GB and the first one went down from 2GB to 100MB, thats magic don't you think?....
So after that I created I new project and I imported all the sequences from my first project, I could finish the edit one day later.....
Would be great know from the Adobe people they are into this problem and will be solved in next patches.
Sorry for my english and thank you very much for the responses.

Premiere Pro creating impossibly huge project files

I am confused as to why Premiere Pro CS6 is creating projects files that are so enormous they either crash my computer while saving them, or when I try to open them again after closing them, they simply will not open because they are too big. I have NEVER seen Premiere Pro CS5 create a project file that was, for example, 1.75GB in size. Now, I can't even edit a two minute video without eventually losing everything because the file size becomes unmanageable.
I thought it might be an issue with Magic Bullet Looks 2.0, as I noticed the file would grow enormously every time I added an effect to a clip. Not sure. Anyone else having this problem, with or without Looks or other otherwise 100% compatible plug-ins?

I too am having the exact same problem, but the only effect I've been using is cross fade (both the transition effect and jut dragging the opacity down. I think it might be the drag on effect now that I'm hearing everyone else's issues. At first I had thought it might be a nesting issue (the main thing I've been using PrPro CS6 for is cutting together animatics with ref footage, so a lot of individual images laid over eachother) but that did really make sense. The odd thing I've noticed, thoug, is that it seems to be increasing by a factor of two once it really starts getting gigantic (which I can tell because I version constantly). Isn't that a bit... I don't know, odd? I mean if this is infact the case. The size where they really start to seem unwieldly is at about 250mb. I'm trying to open that file now, remove a whole bunch of the crossfades, and see if it has an effect on the file size.
I have been nearly patient enough yet to wait for the 500m files to even re open.
Tell me, for you guys, does the load project bar always stutter at the same place, like, right below the "Pr" in "Load Project"?

MacBook Pro with SSD that has a limited disk space (120GB). Rendering in Project File (User/Movies/Final Cut Projects), it takes huge space and the limited disk space would not be enough for the whole editing.

I'm using MacBook Pro with 128GB SSD that has a limited disk space. As we know, when rendering in Project File (User/Movies/Final Cut Projects), it takes huge space and the limited disk space would not be enough for the whole editing.
My question is, Is there any method to get the rendering Projects file saved into an external hard drive which is connected with USB/ Thunderbolt/ Firewire, with huge disk space (eg. 500GB HDD).
Now, new project created in my Mac is automatically saved in (User/Movies/Final Cut Projects) and my Mac has ran out of space to hold the files.
Thank you.

You have at least 3 different ways to show the project library:
1) Go to WIndow->Show Project Library
2) Click the button in bottom left of your window:
3) Hit the keyboard shortcut (Command-0)
The project library will be shown, occupying the area where the timeline usually is.
Your hard disks will be visible. Click the hard disk where you want the new project to reside and hit Cmd-N to create a new project.

Project File Size is huge!

I was working with about 25 MS Project files with different sizes. I am not
sure what happened but I moved some tasks around between the different files
and all of a sudden most of these files have increased significantly in size.
Probably, my files became corrupted?
help is always appreciated

Hi,
How many task do you have in your file? Try to save as (if you can) the file under another name, it could reduce the size.
Are you at least able to open it in MS Project before it crashes? In case you are, try the XML export as per this article.
There is also a tool called Project Repair Kit that I've never tried but it seems to worked quite well.
Demo:- http://www.project.repair/
Finally, you could visit:
http://www.filerepairforum.com/forum/microsoft/microsoft-aa/project/105-%E2%80%8Bms-project-cannot-save-file-cannot-be-opened
(replace caps) so I could try on my side.
Hope this helps,

Any way to prevent dupes in Premiere Project file?

Due to working with both PluralEyes as well as multiple editors on the same project, I deal with importing a lot of XML and PRPROJ files into existing project files that I've worked with.
This, on a large scale, becomes untenable because every time I import another editor's work or a synced sequence, I get duplicates of all my media in the project. I'm trying to figure out if there any way to have Premiere check to see if the media is already imported, and reference that media in the imported sequence? If not, I will just keep getting larger and larger project files with multiple references to the same media, because both me and my other editors are working with the same media, but for different sequences.
As far as I can tell, when you import an XML, or even a sequence from another Premiere project, it creates new master clips for every clip used in the imported sequence. It does not recognize that you may already have a master clip that you're using in another sequence that is referring to the same media.
So if you want to keep both sequences in your project, you need to keep both master clips. If you delete a master clip from your bin, it will not stay in the sequence(s) that refer to it, it will get cut out, leaving a big steaming crater where it once was. Even if the sequence is not currently open. This is one of the things I loved about FCP7. You could delete every single one of your master clips and your sequence would be totally unaffected. You could even recreate the master clips by dragging them from your sequence to the bin.
I think if there really is no way to manage these duplicates, this is a HUGE problem for professionals who are working in environments with multiple editors. This isn't just a "well, learn how to deal with a new editing system" - this is actually a deal-breaker; and actually the only one that I see REALLY preventing Premiere from being the go-to choice for larger post houses. This problem becomes so big so fast that it makes true collaborative editing downright impossible. In my office we might have three people on a project, all editing and revising segments and passing them back and forth. On FCP7 this was easy as pie - we'd just cut and paste between project files and use basic versioning best practices. In Premiere, our project files quickly become nightmares and work is often inadvertently deleted or lost.
I would like to see:
- Smart media handling when importing sequences and projects. Premiere should look at the filenames and file location and attempt to relink any duplicate media. If it stumbles, it should ask for help like FCP.
- A media consolidation inspection feature. I'd love to see an option for inspecting your project for duplicate media references. When found, Premiere should automatically consolidate.
- Streamlined sequence exporting. You should be able to export a single sequence. I know there's some version of this in Project Manager, but we all know it should be easier than this!
Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

*******Enhancement / FMR*********
Brief title for your desired feature:
Link Master Clips to media on drives, not to sequences.
How would you like the feature to work?
"The selection you are deleting contains clip references in one or more sequences. If you continue these clip references will all be deleted. Do you want to continue?" In short, I never want to see this warning again. I *need* to be able to delete master clips from my project without having media deleted out of sequences.
Why is this feature important to you?
Editors need to stay organized from the beginning. Professional editors don’t edit birthday parties; we often have large quantities of different kinds of media, need to know where it is, need to access it quickly, and don’t need unnecessary things in the way.
Organization exists in one place: the project panel. The less that’s in the project panel, the smaller the project file size is, the faster the project file opens, closes and saves, but most importantly: the easier it is to find what you need, fast.
The reasons for working in multiple project files are endless. When you import a seq from another project, you also get the clips used in it. Often times these clips are already present in the project, which is why you now include a “don’t allow duplicates” checkbox in your import dialogue box (which btw doesn’t work when we’re working with Merged Clips painstakingly built in other project files).
While you might fix that Merged Clips bug, I still don’t know why you won’t just let me clean stuff up myself. Why are you trying to save me from myself? I know where my media is and Premiere knows where my media is: on my drive.
A professional editing program should not try to save people from themselves. It’s why I left FCP for you. You have a great, powerful suite of programs (that I’d pay a lot more for than I do now btw)… but I need to stay organized, not be unnecessarily prevented from doing so.
Please listen to us and make this fix.

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Hi Experts,
1. I have seen blogs which explains processing huge files. for file and sftp
SFTP Adapter - Handling Large File
File/FTP Adapter - Large File Transfer (Chunk Mode)
Here also we have constrain that we can not do any mapping. it has to be EOIO Qos.
would it be possible, to process 1 GB size file and do mapping? which hardware factor will decide that sytem is capable of processing large size with mapping?
is it number of CPUs,Applications server(JAVA and ABAP),no of server nodes,java,heap size?
if my system if able to process 10 MB file with mapping there should be something which is determining the capability.
this kind of huge size file processing will fit into some scenarios. for example,Proxy to soap scenario with 1GB size message exchange does not make sense. no idea if there is any web service will handle such huge file.
2. consider pi is able to process 50 MB size message with mapping. in order to increase the performance what are the options we have in PI
i have come across these two point many times during design phase of my project. looking for your suggestion
Thanks.

Hi Ram,
You have not mentioned what sort of Integration it is.You just mentioned as FILE.I presume it is FILE To FILE scenario.In this case in PI 711 i am able to process 100MB(more than 1Million records ) file size with mapping(File is in the delta extract in SAP ECC AL11).In the sender file adapter i have chosen recordset per message and processed the messages in bit and pieces.Please note this is not the actual standard chunk mode.The initial run of the sender adapter will load the 100MB file size into the memory and after that messages will be sent to IE based on recordset per message.If it is more than 100MB PI Java starts bouncing because of memory issues.Later we have redesigned the interface from proxy to file asyn and proxy will send the messages to PI in chunks.In a single run it will sent 5000 messages.
For PI 711 i believe we have the memory limtation of the cluster node.Each cluster node can't be more than 5GB again processing depends on the number of Java app servers and i think this is no more the limitation from PI 730 version and we can use 16GB memory as the cluser node.
this kind of huge size file processing will fit into some scenarios. for example,Proxy to soap scenario with 1GB size message exchange does not make sense. no idea if there is any web service will handle such huge file.
If i understand this i think if it is asyn communication then definitely 1GB data can sent to webservice however messages from Proxy should sent to PI in batches.May be the same idea can work for Sync communication as well however timeouts in receiver channel will be the next issue.Increasing time outs globally is not best practice however if you are on 730 or later version you can increase timeouts specific to your scenario.
To handle 50 MB file size make sure you have the additional java app servers.I don't remember exactly how many app server we have in my case to handle 100 MB file size.
Thanks

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Huge .rpt File Sizes

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If file size is the biggest concern, once you've cleared out
all items
you don't need any longer, try:
1. Doing a Save As, then a Save As again. Often, for whatever
reason,
this finally gets rid of old, unused objects.
2. Create a new project and import the existing project's
slides. This
can have the same effect.
In my experience, the first is better for reducing file sizes
and the
second is better for getting rid of any playback anomalies.
Otherwise, a better approach for what you're doing, again in
my
experience, would be to cut up the audio outside of Captivate
into one
file per slide (using a tool like Audacity), import them all
into the
library, then add each individually. That's our standard
process and
we've yet to experience these huge, bloated CP files (knock,
knock).
Erik
luke@nesc wrote:
> I have been using Captivate to imbed an audio recording
of a presentation into
> the slides for said presentation. The audio is in the
form of one large mp3
> file. When adding the audio, I select the option to
distribute over many files,
> and line up all the slides to the correct part of the
audio. If i need to edit
> the slide times or audio (this happens frequently
because captivate seems to be
> rather buggy when splitting up the single audio track
into one for each slide)
> the resulting Captivate Project file rockets in file
size. ....
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Huge captivate file sizes

I have been using Captivate to imbed an audio recording of a
presentation into the slides for said presentation. The audio is in
the form of one large mp3 file. When adding the audio, I select the
option to distribute over many files, and line up all the slides to
the correct part of the audio. If i need to edit the slide times or
audio (this happens frequently because captivate seems to be rather
buggy when splitting up the single audio track into one for each
slide) the resulting Captivate Project file rockets in file size. I
believe this is because it is keeping a copy of all audio used in
Captivate, ie an old and new copy of the whole mp3 stream, before
and after editting.
If this happens a few times the file size grows accordingly,
and for a 50min presentation i'm looking at project files of 1.3GB.
These are clearly pushing my (powerfull dual core, 2GB RAM) desktop
to the limit. I have tried removing all unsed items from the
library but this makes no difference to the size of the projects.
To illustrate the problem to a friend I deleted EVERYTHING
from the library, added 1 new blank slide and deleted all the other
slides. The resulting project looked akin to a brand new blank one.
Upon saving (as a new cp file) the project was infact 1.16GB in
size. Eh?
Is there some way of deleting files from captivate projects
other than the library?

If file size is the biggest concern, once you've cleared out
all items
you don't need any longer, try:
1. Doing a Save As, then a Save As again. Often, for whatever
reason,
this finally gets rid of old, unused objects.
2. Create a new project and import the existing project's
slides. This
can have the same effect.
In my experience, the first is better for reducing file sizes
and the
second is better for getting rid of any playback anomalies.
Otherwise, a better approach for what you're doing, again in
my
experience, would be to cut up the audio outside of Captivate
into one
file per slide (using a tool like Audacity), import them all
into the
library, then add each individually. That's our standard
process and
we've yet to experience these huge, bloated CP files (knock,
knock).
Erik
luke@nesc wrote:
> I have been using Captivate to imbed an audio recording
of a presentation into
> the slides for said presentation. The audio is in the
form of one large mp3
> file. When adding the audio, I select the option to
distribute over many files,
> and line up all the slides to the correct part of the
audio. If i need to edit
> the slide times or audio (this happens frequently
because captivate seems to be
> rather buggy when splitting up the single audio track
into one for each slide)
> the resulting Captivate Project file rockets in file
size. ....
Erik Lord
http://www.capemedia.net
Adobe Community Expert - Authorware
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Why won't CS6 load a project file?

Here's my problem, I have one really big project and Premiere opens it just fine. But once it begins to load it eventually freezes. I've tried moving the files off an external drive onto my local drive, I've tried to delete some of the files in case the project just has too much memory used & I've tried to clean out the media cache folders. Nothing is solving the problem, what do you guys think might be the problem?

If those externals are USB that could definitely be an issue. USB3 can sustain read speeds to hold say footage but the read-write issues of having anything other than footage on one is a problem. If you've got a project file or cache files over USB3, it's very problematic.
Also, your RAM and CPU cycle speed are both on the low end of usability for practical things. Could run CS6 okay but won't really do too well with the CC versions. Like me, you've got a quad-core machine, more cores & faster bus speeds are better. Sigh.
The Tweakers Page is a great resource ... some of the all-time HUGE participants on these forums put together a series of real-world tests of the Adobe DVA's run through computers ... they have a file you download & it's got a resource monitoring program and a PrPro project file that's not "long" but is loaded with PrPro & AfterEffects stuff that is designed to test every part of your computer ... CPU, front-side bus & disc-access speeds, RAM & GPU/vRAM use, disc-in/out, all of it. A lot of people have run this and loaded the log-files back up to their site so they have real-world data on different computer parts & combinations and how they actually work.
Tweaker's Page ...
http://ppbm7.com/index.php/tweakers-page
Among other stuff there, they've got some great info on how to "array" your video "stuff" ... from OS, program, and project file locations on the computer to where cache files, previews, database, and footage should be placed on systems ranging from two drives to mega-drives. Project files, cache files, database ... all have a ton of read-write cycles, and so need fast access both in/out. Spreading these files out on multiple internal drives or a combo of internal/external using eSATA & Thunderbolt connections for the externals is recommended ... or putting them all on a RAID 0 4/5 disc array of say 2 Tb drives. Internal SSD discs (secondary, not the system or C drive) for cache/previews/database is also good.
Footage files need mostly simple read-times & data transport, so they can be on say a USB3 external and be acceptable, and say export files also can be on such a drive.
Depending on the connections to your externals, you may need to say move project files internal (even if on the same as the system, not optimal) and leave the footage on the externals. But reading up a bit might give you some ideas on how to proceed ...
Neil

Media Reconnection Issues (search problems); 1 project file, two data sets

Ok, here goes folks!
We have:
Mac Pro, 6tb MaxxDigital RAID
MacBook Pro, 3x 1tb GRAIDs
The data on the Gtechs's is the same as the data on the Maxx tower- the file structure is different.
Whenever the project file is updated on the main MacPro it is moved via USB key to the macbook pro, at which time media needs to be reconnected (to the graids).
Recently the search in a single location feature had not been working in the reconnect dialog- we select the drive (any of the three) and are given the nope tone. This is a huge project- long form doc with 30+ hours of footage. It is killing us having to manually specify each folder in the drive depending on the file. Previously just selecting the root drive would start the search and all would be well.
Here are my questions:
Is there something we can do to restore the reconnect search functionality?
Could we alleviate this by getting a large enough SATA raid and express card adapter to make an exact copy of the main Maxx Raid? Would it be easier to reconnect?
Can anyone offer any workflow tips for our situation?
Generally I am over on the main box doing composites, graphics, spit and polish, etc, while the Director is on the MBP roughing segments. Soon we will be moving to me doing spit and polish on the MBP and color grading on the main box.
I hope there is enough information here for anyone with advice to offer, please dont hesitate to ask for more info if needed. Thanks for taking the time to read this and I look forward to hearing what you guys think.
-Kevin

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Problem with Premiere Pro CS5 project files bloating

Has anyone had the same problem that we're experiencing? - we have Production Premium CS5 installed on a machine with Win 7 Pro x64. We have three separate edits all of which are experiencing bloating of the .prproj project file. Often this bloating seems to occur when no importing of assets has occured, just changes in the edits. A project which started at 5mb has bloated to 1.5GB and we can no longer save it. Another project has bloated to 200mb and continues to grow in size. We have not brought in any weird assets, although we are using hi-def footage.
We upgrade from CS3 and never had this problem using Premiere CS3.
We can't fix the problem by 'remove unused footage' as this doesn't reduce the project size, although it does remove the unused footage.
We can't fix it by importing the project into a new clean project as the problem and huge file size just comes with
We can't fix it by using the project manager to collect up the project as it requires to save before collecting and the problem files can't be saved.
A couple of points to note - these projects were originally on Premiere CS3 and were upgraded to CS5. The footage is either Sony EX3 or Canon 5D - both HD.
The machine it's running on has 8gb of RAM.
Currently the projects I'm working on are gradually grinding to a hold with no way to make the files usable again.
Any suggestions are greatfully recieved as I'm at a loss. I've reported this to Adobe, and will report back if I get anything useful.
thanks.

natswilson wrote:
TClark,
I'm shocked that you are having the same problem on a mac. This seems to suggest a problem that could be really widespread. You've also beaten my 1.5GB file bloat size.
What the hell is going on with Premiere Pro? I'm surprised to have heard nothing from Adobe either via my support request or on this forum, save for Jeremys useful work around, considering how serious an issue this is.
I've had to break all the projects I'm working on which have multiple timelines in each project into a new seperate project per timeline in order to reduce the file bloat problem and reduce the risk of me loosing all my work in one go on a bloated file.
Adobe - we could do with some help here. It's frustrating to have spent so much money on licences for this software only to have virtually non-existant help when a serious flaw in the software manifests itself.
Nat
Yeah...it's really a bummer that no one is acknowledging it. It's pretty serious!
I hope Dennis jumps in soon!

Problem with opening final cut studio3 project files

hello, i m using final cut studio 3 and it seems it ocured a problem with the projects
after i work on a project and save it, i can t open it anymore(it apears a dialog box wich it says unable to open project file)
i ve uninstalled final cut, installed again and the problem it s still there
cam you give me an advice about what i can do?
thank you

Uninstalling/reinstalling rarely helps in issues like these and is usually a huge waste of time... It sounds more like a corrupt project than anything. Is FCP able to open other projects?
Hopefully you have Autosave turned on, as that may be your only salvation... So go to your Autosave Vault (usually located in your documents folder, in the Final Cut Pro Documents folder).

Password Protecting FCP project files

Why does Avid, Apple, Vegas Video, Ulead, etc. not offer password protected project files? This seems to be a simple technology. When you are on the high school and college level it's a constant battle to keep students from jacking with other student projects. If could open a project and it asks for your password, it would be heaven on this level. It makes sense to me. Can someone make the argument for why it does not?

Your school district's IT security people are idiots. Not their fault, It's a definition. There is simply no way to protect your computers from intelligent and skilled students. Why are you punishing them for acquiring crucial and relevant skills? The fact they have no morals is the problem.
Anyway, running Macs in labs under the highest security is not a problem, the military does it. All you need is the right tools and some background. You can set up any level of encryption or password protection you can be bothered to enforce and maintain. There are huge Web sites dedicated to the practice. Find a kid who wants to get an A in your video class and turn him loose. Make him do a business proposal and a proof of concept demonstration. Heck, PAY the little rat.
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