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Waveform Display
Hi,
We are using Kona LS card with Media VideoRaid RTR320 1TB on a PowerMac G5 Dual 2.7 GHz with Atto UL4D card. Whenever we try to display the wavefoam of the audio in the time line, it takes too long ang the machine also becoms slow responcing to other operations in FCP. After a long period of time the machine will show the wavvefoam and after that we can work fast on it. Is there any setting to improve the speed of this operation or any other solution to it? Please suggest.
Thanks & Regards
Ajith -
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Sounds like you don’t have enough RAM in your G5. You should have at least 3 – 4GB RAM in that machine. How much do you have?
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Ajith- When our timeline gets out there (over 15 minutes) we go to sequence settings and shut-off waveform ’til we need it.
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The previous two suggestions are correct. I edit a 23 minute broadcast show here with 12 tracks of audio. Having the waveform on will definitely affect your workflow because FCP needs to draw and re-draw the timeline everytime the timeline is moved. RAM will help, but keeping it off until you need it is the way to go. I only use it for precision edits.
Ron
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Hi thanks for the suggestions. Its a TV editing station where we need the waveform. I have 2GB of RAM and I can check upgrading that. Will revert if I get a result. Thank you once again to all of you.
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FCP only uses a MAX of 2gig of RAM so 4 gig in your machine is a big helper. The other to think about is increasing the size of the waveform cache file. This might allot more Application RAM towards doing things like drawing waveforms for you.
David
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