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  • Avid Media Composer

    mc5 hangup

    Posted by Romain Clark on January 17, 2011 at 11:40 pm

    Anybody saw this happen: when editing a sequence longer than 20 min, either thru AMA or digitized, everything seems to slow down on the app, EG: waiting 20 sec. to perform a cut or do a trim. No difference if SD or HD project.

    We run on mac OSX snow Leopard, 6 gig of RAM. Media on a Promise SAN using SanMp.

    Greg Janza replied 15 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Michael Kammes

    January 18, 2011 at 3:37 pm

    What version of MC5? This is important.

    Media Composer has been known to have the occasional memory leak, which can certainly cause slow downs. Does rebooting help? Does the problem persist if all of the media is local and not on a SAN?

    ~Michael

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  • Greg Janza

    February 9, 2011 at 1:23 am

    there’s definitely a memory leak bug.
    I’m working on MC 5.0.3.5 on osx 10.6.4

    I have a large project that when first opened takes 30% of memory and within 30 mins. gets to 100%.

    this happens consistently all day long every day.

    It’s a 60 min show so it’s sucking up the memory. the only workaround is to quit out and restart avid.

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