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project takes to long to open :(
Happy Monday Everybody
My project is taking too long to open and sometise I get the beech ball and have to re-start the computer. 🙁
I trashed the preferences but this didn’t help.
I read somewhere that you should never fill more thatn 85 % of a drive. According to my poor maths I have exceeded this limit.
Size of the project is: 158mb
I have 2 external drives Raid 1 & Raid 2
Most my footage is on Raid 1 and its capacity is 1.27TB, available space left is 57 GB.
Do I need to move some of my footage onto the second drive would this improve things.
Any advice on this issue is much appericiated.
Thanks
Zee. 🙂
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7 Replies
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That is very normal for your project size. You have to be very patient. The project will open eventually. It could take 5 minutes or more to open.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
Definitely normal for a project your size and with that much media. The issue with filling your drives affects playback performance, not the opening of the project. The more you fill your drives past 75 – 80% full, the more likely you are to get dropped frames.
In fact, if you move some of the media off to a third drive, it will take even longer for the project to open. You want your media on as few drives as possible.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Thank you for your reply
Actually now the programme isn’t running so smothly and as you stated it is dropping frames and taking much longer to do things. If moving the media onto a second drive will help run FCP smoothly I don’t mind that the project will take longer to open.
I think I will move 10 gig of my media onto the second drive, is that enough amount to move?
Thanks
Zee
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“Most my footage is on Raid 1 and its capacity is 1.27TB, available space left is 57 GB.”
If you have 1.27 TB, that’s 1,270 megabytes. If you want 20% free space, you would need to have 254 gb free space. You have 57 gb free space, so you should move 197 gb.
You can also break up your project file into smaller projects. You could make a duplicate, and in the new duplicate delete all your old sequences, leaving only those you are currently working on. You should see a much small project that will open faster. You can always open the older project if you need anything in it, but your day to day work would be in a smaller project.
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Another thing to keep in mind…unlike Avid, you can open more than one project at a time….therefore you can move bins, clips and sequences that are not needed frequently into other projects to reduce the size of your working project. Just open the other project(s) when you need them.
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Sorry, I mis-typed, 1.27 terabytes is 1,270 gigabytes.
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Check out my article on this very topic.
Avoiding the SBBOD…
https://web.mac.com/sfcutters/iWeb/fcpworld/news/FCDB0CCA-08D8-4562-B59E-67A8A2FFF685.html
Kevin Monahan
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