Hi Steven

I dont think I am susing any stabizer. I am tring to work out what I did within half an hour since previous version. I loaded up the previous version OK. That was created at 13.47(UK time). At 14.20 the "save as" version s 6.27 gig.

All I did was make a duplicate of the sequence and a bit of editing. I am trying to import the newer sequence, but the import is very slow as 6 gig is a LOT of code for Prem to sift through. I can see the progress bar moving at snails pace-may leave it loading til tomorrow.

I cant think of anything else I did.

Checking auto saves-seems that since the last good save of the non-bloated project, there was one auto save before I "saved as" the next version. That wa also 6.27 gig.

Pretty annoying to say the least and a bug that should have been fixed.I saw posts from 2012 on this.

When I can open the new sequence I will post any info I can.

Thanks

Dave

To update: I worked for a while on previous(working) project and deleted preview files and render files. Resulting project size 141 meg.

Still have history of previous auto saves leaping up: from 184 mb to 1.69 gig. Stayed there for 6 auto saves then jumped to 3.26 gb for one, then to over 6gig.

I will watch the size of autosaves and report.

Dave

Thanks for the message-not sure where I went wrong-all the menus call timelines sequences! Sequence presets, new sequence etc etc. Should I be calling them timelines?

Anyway-all I was trying to do is import a sequence from a previous project(from the bloated one)

I have bitten the bullet, given up hoping to rescue the bloated project and just had to redo all the work I lost.

This is virtually the same sequence that bloated. There was under an hour od work between the two and I had only been choppig clips out of a sequennce. No major graphics. However if you are telling me that keyframes can make 6 gig(yes 6 GIG) difference in project size then I think the programmers need to rethink their code!!!

I will report if I can see what went wrong, but I think the bloated projects would take days to open(I left one over night-about 1/5 th open)

Cheers

Dave

Could post the 150 meg & set the smaller(1.7 gig) loading overnight. The 6 gig would take quite a bit of time!!! I am in no rush now, as I have reverted to a "good" project and am carefully watching to see if the auto saves creep up in size by themselves....

Dave

Couldn't upload project today as bandwidth tied up with another film! HOWEVER-I have managed to create a MASSIVE project bloat. This is on the same project. Editing all day, project quite happily sitting around the 160meg mark. THen needed to do a couple of titles. 4, so far. Created words in titler. Dropped on timeline & applied a gausssian blur filter to the text(2 key frames to "blur" the title out.

OK note the 4 tiles added. So why does my project file now take up 3.7gig?

At least I found one possible culprit.Although, not sure if that is what I did last time. Anyway. 3.7 gig? 4 titles?

Not funny.

I am just going to remove the tiles. Allow another autosave and hope this is at least consistantly bad news.

Dave

5.99 gig now.

This is definitly a software fault now.

Just deleted a few clips off the timeline. 7.32GB and climbing. Watch out! Just as well the sequence is just a few minutes long. If it was a docu we would all be engulfed....

Thanks. It does look like a similar issue - I spotted that a couple of days ago when I first had this come up. I have said I am happy for Steve to take this up-I messaged him, but he is probably busy.

Cheers

Dave

Happy for anyone to get to the bottom of this!! Its a bit big to send, but I could upload overnight, unless he can look at it remotely

Dave

Thats the trouble with posting when you arent thinking. However, thought it may have been a related issue with a flakey install(following the bloat issue).

Thanks though for your dilligance!