I'm currently editing 8K 360 video in a timeline in Premiere, and I've been working in this project file for the past several months. But for the past couple weeks, every time I open Premiere and try to play through the timeline, Premiere will freeze up and then crash or give me the "send bug report" pop-up, then close the program without letting me save. I'm editing off of proxies for all of my media, using the CUDA engine to render, and am working in Premiere Pro CC Ver. 13.0. This is a big project file, currently at 3,650KB, and I'm accessing all my project files, media, proxies, and other materials off of a single external hard drive going through a USB 3.0 port on my computer.
Other actions that have also been causing Premiere to freeze:
+Opening the Legacy Title editor at any time
+Toggling between VR view and Equirectangular view
I've tried opening this project on other computers, but the sheer size of the project and its 8K video files takes too long to be opened on any computer other than the one I'm currently working on. I've also tried opening other projects on the same computer, and while opening the legacy title editor the program still freezes. My computer specs are as follows:
CPU: Intel Xeon Gold 6134 CPU @ 3.20GHz and 3.19GHz (2 processors)
RAM: 128GB
GPU: Nvidia Quadro P5000
Originally, I thought the issue might have been related to the Media Cache, so I moved my Media Cache Database and all cache files to a local 1TB SSD installed inside the computer. However, the crash problems still persist and there's 600GB of space left on the drive. Next, I tried reinstalling Premiere Pro, but that didn't solve the issue. Other typical troubleshooting solutions like copying the project file, starting a new sequence in the project file, and clearing my Media Cache have not helped. I'm considering installing two new SSDs into the computer and transferring all project files to one and all media to the other and working off of those, but this will take some time and I'm not positive this will solve the issue either.
Does anyone have any advice? Premiere freezes less than every five minutes, which has completely halted my production. Please and thank you!