TurboTigerJaws wrote:

 

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?

Are you using Warp Stabilizer by any chance?  I've read it can cause this same issue.

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"?

Selfishly, I wish it were only a Windows problem, but alas, MacPro, 16GB Ram, 8TB of external disc space, (but no Nvidia CUDA graphics card, yet), and I have some files (from last year) which have lots of effects and the project file is in the reasonable 6.5MB size, but now they're bloating out to 580MB. Analyzing current project, the project manager is taking ages to load;

There are so many variables we're all working with different plug-ins and computers and projects, so getting one or two answers that will solve it for each of us is probably impossible. I use Colorista II but I dumped Looks because it was giving me major freezes and other weird behaviour; sure, I have effects, some wipes, some fades, the usual, it doesn't have more than a couple of  AE clips, and five minutes after I began writing this the "analyzing project...." window still doesn't even have the beginnings of a progress bar.

Jeff, that's very helpful, but I'm not exactly sure of what is a lossless intermediate file.

Also, do you mean that I'd remove the clips in the timeline, import and replace them with those lossless intermediates?

Finally, do you know if the Lock 'n Load stabilizer from Core Melt has the same gigantism effect on project size?