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  • File Size Issue

    Posted by Dave Edwards on March 27, 2019 at 9:18 am

    After recording a 45′ event with 3 cameras in UHD, importing the three files into MC8 took 5 hours per file. My PC is an HP Z800 with dual Xeon CPUs and 48Gb of RAM. I’m a little shocked at the 15 hour total import time : is there anything that can be done to improve on this or is this just part of the joys of UHD? I notice that generating optimised media in Resolve 15 took only 2.5 hours.

    Dave Edwards replied 7 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Michael Phillips

    March 27, 2019 at 12:27 pm

    Import is a slow single processor process… you are better off linking and transcoding which uses more processors to transcode the media.

    Michael

  • Dave Edwards

    March 27, 2019 at 4:11 pm

    Thanks, Michael: I’ll give this a go.

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