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  • Masking Tool Lag/Slow

    Posted by Haley Stibbard on August 19, 2010 at 11:21 am

    Hi everyone

    Need help with the masking tool. Its suddenly become really slow when Im using it, it is really laggy and this is making it hard to comp or roto with it. To make it clearer if I want to draw a mask around an object it takes 1.5 -2 secs to register each point on the mask.

    I have open GL turned on.
    Im not comping any HD footage infact even using the mask tool on a single solid layer is laborious

    I have more than plenty of ram so its not that, in fact my comp specs are below

    Mac Pro 2.26Ghz 2xQC/8Gb/2TB/S
    8GB (4x2GB)
    2TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
    ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB
    Two 2.26GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
    “Nehalem” processors, 6GB (six 1GB) memory
    640GB hard drive, 18x double-layer SuperDrive
    NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 with 512MB
    Lacie 4Big 6TB Quad RAID

    If anyone can help that would be so great, its really frustrating me!

    Haley Stibbard replied 15 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
  • 3 Replies
  • Tudor “ted” jelescu

    August 19, 2010 at 1:46 pm

    turn open GL off
    use region of interest selection to update the image in the viewer only with your subject
    get used to roto in AE being slow or get a roto package.

    Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
    Senior Compositor/VFX Artist
    Bucharest, Romania

  • Haley Stibbard

    August 20, 2010 at 12:04 am

    Hi There

    No sorry neither of the things you have mentioned are changing it, i have also deleted my preference files as well, no luck

  • Haley Stibbard

    August 20, 2010 at 6:42 am

    Problem Solved, external monitor running of the AJA box was draining the graphics card (Im assuming) disabling this fixed problem.

    Thanks for help.

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