General Lag, Waveform Showstopper

[Chris Frantz]

Was that fix open in timeline and delete the channels you aren’t using? Because that’s not a fix, that’s a deal breaker when it’s not necessary in other NLEs.

[Bill Davis]

As I understand it, it was a temp workaround while X 10.1 was active. They did work in 10.2 on the audio side and I think it got fixed along with .mp3 processing now being something like 10x faster. X evolves like every other software. 5 years ago I’d never worked with a muxed digital file containing the data for video and 8 audio tracks in a single file. Today that’s what you get from a Black Magic ATEM switcher in default mode. So I had to learn to use THAT file in X when I got handed files from that new system. Monday I didn’t know how to deal with them. Tuesday I did. And later word got upstream to the software team and I presume they changed things so it’s no longer a big issue. Unfortunately that shop did not upgrade their software regularly – so they were stuck on the version with the issue. How is that on Apple? What part of that is different from how you’ve done computerized editing your whole career? Cuz the only thing I see being different is that I didn’t have to get a new plastic disk to get it fixed. If you are unwilling to trouble shoot stuff like that, the solution is clear. Do like the AVID guys used to and if you find a version that works – freeze it and just ignore all updates as long as you can. But good luck with that strategy in the modern era of constant change.

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