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FCP Slowing down.
I have FCP Studio, a G5 dual, 2ghz, with 2 gb of memory. We are shooting HDV and downconverting with a Sony M10U, then capturing via component DV50 through an AJA Kona.
I’m capturing 30-minute interviews in total, then making subclips and logging them in the browser. When I work in the timeline, things slow down, (eg: when I select an area, it may take 3-4 seconds before it does the action.) it acts as if it has to render something before it can act.
Is this because I’m capturing and logging the way I am? I’ve done all the maintenence tricks I know; trashing pref’s and loading clean ones; “disk repair;” and did a “save project as” to get rid of corruption. I’m going to have to capture probably 100 hours of stuff, so things don’t look good right now.Michael G
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Hi,
is the “slow action” only in the timeline?
If so: try to open sequense settings and timeline options, turn off :
– show audo waveforms
– shos throughand set your Thumbnali display to: NAME
and work with as few timelines open as possible,
hope this helps you out;-)
Andreas
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Are you sure it’s only in FCP that you experience the ‘slowness’? Go to the desktop and open a folder – does it open instantly or in a jerky fashion?
If the latter then you may have one of the early ‘bad batch’ of Kona3 cards. Make sure by removing the Kona drivers from the system and restart – if the computer has the spring back in it’s step then get your card swapped out for a good one.
HTH
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What type of storage are you using and how full is it?
When you get any harddrive more tham 50% full it will slowdown drastically.
Rule of Thumb is to keep at least 20% of your drive free at all times.Steve Cohen
Senoir Editor
O2 Media Inc. -
Hi, Thanks for the info. but more puzzling, is that just today, it suddenly started working smoothly and at its normal speed.
The problem was only in FCP and I am using a Surevault with 745gb capacity, and it has 427.37gb available on it, so that should be ok. I did try killing the wavefforms on the audio tracks, which didn’t improve the speed. This slowdown lasted for several days and I had shut everything down several times, done all the mantainence tricks, etc, but it continued to work slow, then suddenly it sped up. I want to check out the AJA, but I don’t know why it would effect editing on the timeline. This is definitely an intermitant. Thanks again.Michael G
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