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Can CS4 handle really large projects with lots of clips?
I’m starting editing on a series of four 80 minute training videos, one project for each.
Narrations, Maxon c4d .mov animations, HDV video, and some low-def DV, has been captured, labeled and lives on a 1TB hard drive in approx 3200 clips.
I’ve created a base project where I’ve imported 2800 of about 3500 clips and placed in CS4 bins. I was going to then “save as” for each of the four projects so all the clips could be perused.
Last week I bought a new dell xps studio 1640 with 2.5 GHz processor and 6Gb ram just to do the animation rendering and editing for this project.
Each time I open the program, it goes through “loading media”, a process which takes about an hour and, during that hour, I’m essentially unable to work on it.
At 47 years old, I won’t live long enough to complete the projects at this rate. Does anyone have any ideas on how to proceed? I’ve tried Bridge and it crashed hard within 2 minutes. While it was open it wouldn’t actually play any clips.
Is CS4 a contender for this size effort or did I botch that? I’ve made expensive mistakes before but this would probably top the list since I suspect the alternative is moving platforms to mac.
I’ve used the program successfully on smaller projects but nothing near the scope of this one.
Any help will be greatly appreciated as there is presently no light
Is anyone else doing projects requiring large numbers of clips? If so, what am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Jeff G.
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Keep as few clips in your Project Panel as possible, and keep only one timeline to open.
I am presently working on a documentary in which I have shot about 80 interviews avering 30 minutes each . . plus hundreds of m.o.s. scenes, etc. and I have no problem. The program is running about 2 1/2 hours, and I have divided it into 5 timelines. It only takes about 90 seconds to open all media. I cannot imagine why it would take an hour for anything, even Gone With The Wind.
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