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Extreme sluggishness when dragged clips
Hi All,
Hopefully this can be fixed simply, but it’s a new problem for me.
I’m cutting an hour show on my office’s Dual 2.0 G5, using FCP 4.5 and NTSC DV. I’ve used this machine to cut several other shows, so I know what’s it’s normal capable of.
My problem is (and it’s seemingly been this way since inheriting the project file from the assistant editor) when I drag clips in the timeline, the system grinds down to an unacceptable slowness. Sometimes, when I begin to drag, I get the spinning beachball for a second, then I can drag, but it takes up to 3 seconds for every frame I drag. My suspicion is this is somehow related to the 2-up display in the canvas, since it doesn’t happen when I’m a) dragging video through filler or b) dragging any audio only clips.
Drive-wise, things seem fine otherwise. I’m not getting any dropped frames on playback and I can drag smoothly through a 40 minute timeline. We’re using FW800 with a LaCie 1TB drive and two LaCie 160gb drives.
If anybody has any ideas or has encountered this before, I’d love to hear about it. I’m cursing at the machine more and more, and I’m thinking it’s starting to hear me.
thanks,
gg
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2 Replies
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Hi There,
It will either be a drive problem, or, more likely if your sequence came from someone else, that you have uplicate frames turned on in your sequence settings. This is a common problems and you can search this forum for dozens of threads about this.Make sure you have duplicate frames turned off for ALL sequences in any open projects. If there is one sequence with it left on you will see this sluglishness. When you turn them off, miraculously you system is back to its usual instant self…
cheers
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Nick —
That worked perfectly.
I never would have figured I would have to turn it off in _all_ the sequences in the project.
Thanks so much!
geoff
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