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Avid slowed down to snail pace
Hello,
Any advice most appreciated…. I’m working to a deadline next week. I’ve been working on 10 x roughly 8 minute sequences separately and since compiling the sequences into one timeline yesterday so I can work on the structure etc, Avid has slowed down to an inoperable pace. When I click somewhere in the timeline it takes 10 secs of colour wheel before you can hit play. All my media is on one Lacie 16tb drive with 2tb of space remaining. I’m working on an iMac which has 20 gb of memory available (and 11gb of app memory available). I have the timeline in a bin to itself which is 26K. I’m using Avid 2018.12.1 (I had previously tried to update but due to problems at the time I’ve stuck with this version).
Many thanks in advance!
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Hi Helen.
Is your media all loaded in by import into AvidMedia? or is it AMA linked?
Also… Lots of people rave and love those Lacie drives.
I hate ’em.
In the olden days, you used to have to have HDD’s that were 7200 rpm for your video to play without skipping. Is your Lacie a fast 7200 drive?
Also, what about your timeline view quality (you know.. that little yellow, green, yellow-slash-green oval) –your timeline may have so much media and so many real-time effects that it’s the ability to pre-load all that stuff so that it is at your fingertips is just weighing it completely down
You might want to take an effect like a mask or something and create a very top video layer and just render the entire thing as one giant effect… then.. if you have to make a change, go into that top layer and do an ‘add edit’ on either side of where you need to make the change so that the entire layer doesn’t come unrendere das soon as you make the change.. then just re-render that little bit.
–I used to do that when I had a very long timeline master for 1-hr shows with tons of effect layers and animating fonts and lower thirds.
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Also, have you done an expert render? and you may not be able to “play” the timeline when you look at it FULL… but if you zoom into just a small piece it should play.
I used to work at a local news station, and at the anniversary of a big blizzard, I had to put 8 hours of programming onto a single timeline .. and it wouldn’t play… but.. if I zoomed in to a smaller-chunk, I could get it to play.
(( I know, these are all ‘duh.. yeah’ questions… but got to figure out what tricks you are already using ))
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Transcode the timeline to a proxy resolution.
ProRes LT or similar.
And yes lacie drives aren’t the best for masses of media.
I’d get a USB 3 SSD drive to transcode to.
Even at 80 mins of footage you won’t need a very large drive. 512GB would be plenty.
With that much AMA linked media online you may need to turn off AMA managed media and trash the AMA databases.
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Hi Kevin,
Thanks very much for your response. I checked the timeline playback and it’s set to Draft. There aren’t many effects in the timeline yet just dissolves here and there. The lacie drive speed is 240mbps, and the linked files are all proxy versions…apart from about 4 short clips that are linked to the 4k originals. Wow, 8 hours in a timeline!
Unfortunately, zooming in doesn’t help at this stage……
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Many thanks Pat. The linked files are all pro res proxy versions…apart from about 4 short clips that are linked to the 4k originals..which I can amend to proxies.
Whereabouts do I turn off AMA managed media please? Sorry i looked in preferences but I can’t find it….
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Oh thank goodness! Problem solved by refreshing Avid management folder. Thank you so much Kevin and Pat!
best wishes, Helen
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It appears I spoke to soon. After doing a few edits it has returned to snail pace..hmm…
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Did you render? Also, that drive is slow by today’s standards. I would Transcode the entire timeline to a smaller picture size such as 720 and a lowend DNX codec.
Hope you find the issue,
Robert
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Thanks very much Robert. I’ll give that a go.
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