Limit of clips and sequences in a single project ?

[Michael Hancock]

To my knowledge, no. There are limits to how many titles you can have in a bin (99) or 999 clips (I think), but you can just make a new bin and keep adding to them.

Regarding sequences–the more complex your sequences are and the more of them you have in a bin the more memory Avid will hog. Keep only 1 or 2 sequences to a bin and you should be able to make as many as you want.

Michael.

[Bouke Vahl]

that’s a bit conservative.
Depending on the complexity of the sequences, you can have way more. I keep about 15 long form piece sequences in one bin.
As for the amount of clips you can have in a bin, remember that there are more items in a bin than you might see.
If you have a bin with just one sequence, Avid also stores all used clips in that bin. That will add up.
I once did a piece with a few thousand imported still images in it, and that brought Avid down. (each still had a reel name assigned.) Chopping up the sequence in two made it workable again.

Biggest gotcha is too large mediadrives. A MXF or OMF folder can only have about 10.000 of files. If you have a lot of (audio) renders and you use the same media drive/folder for multiple projects, you’re heading for trouble.

So partition your harddrives and only mount the ones you need, keeping the partitions reasonable small (like a few hundred gigs)

Bouke

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