Re: I'll just leave this here

The "show" was not supposed to be a show initially. It was a web series produced by an ad agency. Shot mostly on DSLR (but fairly good production value). Now the idea was spun to turn it into a half hour TV program, and several editors have passed on this job because "it's Premiere." As ungrateful as that sounds, that's the truth of how it ended up in my lap. The idea is to take the existing webisodes and create a proper half-hour from them.

I have some bad news though -- the project looks like it was handled terribly from a media management standpoint. I've got multiple 5D shots with the same filenames (and it forced me to manually relink when opening the project.... not knowing which file is correct) - and it even uses plenty of WMV renders, which appear to be mixed down from other edits. There's also plenty of "sequence within sequences" - which I also hate (but that's probably the Avid editor shining through).

My workstation at home (8 core Xeon, 16GB RAM, CUDA supported videocard) was able to open up this project OK. But my laptop (quad i7, 8GB RAM, non CUDA card) has frozen 3 times already after opening up the project. It seems to get stuck on all the conforming jobs.

I'm already having a bad feeling about this, and might end up having to pass on the project simply because I already have a daytime editing job, and can't fix this + finish the job in my spare time on schedule.

This is sad because I truly like Premiere... and I've used it on plenty of smaller projects. This is the stereotypical issue(s) that plague Premiere on every large project I've seen.

I'll report back if the situation gets better.