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MC freezing with external drive
Hi All,
I’m offline editing an 85min feature on MC with the footage pulled in as DV 25P 420. All the footage is on an external hard drive connected via USB 2. All has been fine, but just lately MC keeps on freezing on me – often before I’ve even started editing. I click on the timeline or something and the egg-timer icon comes up and it’s game over. This hasn’t happened when I edit footage from my internal drive (although I’ve never used the internal drives for a feature). The system should be well up to the task (system specs in my signature).Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem / solution might be? I’ve deleted the media database files, but the problem persists. Could de-fragmenting the drive sort this out? Any ideas or thoughts on this gratefully received,
Thanks,
PaulAvid Media Composer. PC with Intel DP35DP s775 iP35 ATX motherboard. Core 2 Extreme QX6800 2.93GHz. 256MB Nvidia Quadro/FX1500 PCIe 1Gb DDR2
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Ok, so I de-fragmented the drive and it’s still freezing on me.
One idea was to delete the pre-compute files to free up space on the external drive so that it runs smoother. When I go to the media tool, however, it tells me it cannot find any pre-compute files, even though I rendered over 100 effects two days ago. This points to some kind of corruption of the pre-computes to me, which might also be causing the freezing.
Is there any other way of identifying and deleting pre-compute files without going through the media tool?
Thanks,
PaulAvid Media Composer. PC with Intel DP35DP s775 iP35 ATX motherboard. Core 2 Extreme QX6800 2.93GHz. 256MB Nvidia Quadro/FX1500 PCIe 1Gb DDR2
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Ok, so I realise I’m the only one posting on this thread, but found the solution to my problem so thought I’d share in case anyone else is having a similar problem.
After a technician came to look at my system I did indeed have a corrupt pre-computer file, but the main problem was that I had too many sequences in one bin. I had around 80 duplicates of the feature film sequence in one bin as I save regularly and duplicate in case something goes wrong and I’m not sure where / when it happened (e.g. getting out of sync). What I didn’t realise is that Avid keeps monitoring all these sequences when the bin is open – keeping all the media ready to go- which was using up all my system memory and causing my computer to crash. In my main active bin I now keep just one sequence, and then drop the duplicates into other bins which I don’t have open.
I was also running a USB2 drive. I’ve copied this to a firewire drive which can only improve things.
Hope that’s of help to someone at some time,
PaulAvid Media Composer. PC with Intel DP35DP s775 iP35 ATX motherboard. Core 2 Extreme QX6800 2.93GHz. 256MB Nvidia Quadro/FX1500 PCIe 1Gb DDR2
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