large FCP project crashing, not reopening

[Loic De lame]

Just played with some settings myself and it looks like the Thumbnail disk cache is limited to 999,999KB. So 900MB would be 921600K. Nice round number.

Additionally, it looks like the Application and Stills Memory Usage are separate, yet linked. What I mean by that is that FCP itself can only use up to 2560MB. However, you can set the Still Memory Usage to 2410MB. So that would make the total RAM use of FCP to 4GB. But, I believe (from my understanding) that the Application Memory Usage won’t be affected by the Stills Memory Usage setting.

However, they are linked because if you reduce the Application usage, the Stills usage gets decreased as well. So separate in the sense that Application and Stills are not using the same RAM, so to speak. But linked because the Application setting limits the Stills setting.

I have a MacPro with 16GB RAM, so I just maxed out my memory on both and gave the Thumbnails Disk 921600K of space and 1024K RAM.

But again, all up to experimentation and preference. As always! ;~)

~ Loïc

[Jeffrey Mills]

Thanks again. I’ll do some testing.