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PPro 2020 v14.5 – Copy/ Paste/ Undo/ Redo – Laggy
Hi Folks,
I’m on a 2013 Macbook Pro (16GB) w/ Lacie Thunderbolt JBOD, w/ PPro writing to external SSD.
I just upgraded from a mostly stable PPro 2019 to PPro 2020 (14.5).
I upgraded because although PPro 2019 was really quite stable, when I hit the spacebar to play, the delay (1-3 sec.) became annoying over time.
With PPro 2020 (14.5) the delay is gone but now when I copy/ paste/ undo/ redo in the timeline there is a delay – sometimes I see the little clock 1-3 sec. as it is processing the command. Annoying.
I’ve tried all options on the Video Rendering and Playback:
Mercury Playback Engine – Metal (Recommended)
Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (Open CL) – Depreciated
Mercury Playback Engine Software OnlyNo difference.
I’m cutting in a project timeline that is 11 hours long and it’s almost all ProRes material with the exception of a very small amount of H.264. This project is one of five projects that are all part of a very large doc film so I still have a long way to go.
I’ve reset the Preferences and hit the Remove Media Cache button but also to no avail. Should I manually delete the Media Cache (and Media Cache Files – 120GB) and let them rebuild??? It’ll take a long time for the Media Cache Files to rebuild so I’ll wait to hear on that.
Can anyone please offer a possible solution?
Everything else seems to work well enough for my needs so far.
Big thanks to everyone here… appreciate the support! 🙂
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Hi Again,
So I think I may have a better understanding of what is causing the laggy copy/ paste/ undo/ redo.
As I mentioned, my timeline is 11 hours long and when I copy/ paste/ undo/ redo in that long timeline (with many edited scenes), there is a laggy delay that was not there in PPro 2019.
As a test, I created another timeline with a fewer amount of edited scenes and there was much less lag when doing copy/ paste/ undo/ redo.
So I can imagine that I’m going to have to break the timeline down into smaller sections to avoid the lag. I would like to keep everything on one timeline as it help me visualize things.
As another test, I imported the timeline into a new project and the copy/ paste/ undo/ redo lag was present.
There must be some kind of difference in how the two versions of PPro handles copy/ paste/ undo/ redo in LONG timelines. Dang.
However, if anyone has any insight on how to overcome this challenge, I’d still certainly appreciate it!
Thanks again folks.
Ps. One thing for sure is that CC2020 14.5 takes a lot longer to open the same 50 MB project file.
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I’d really like to continue with 14.5 but I know the laggy copy/ paste/ undo/ redo in the LONG timelines I normally work in will suck and drive me back to CC2019.
CC2019 didn’t have this issue. But my issue in CC2019 was the time it took for the clip to play after hitting the space bar.
Does anyone know what the fix is in either (or both) of these versions? Please?
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In a nutshell, the problem I have in 14.5 is that if I delete or add media to or from the existing media on the timeline there is a lag. It’s like the program has to ‘think’ for a moment before expanding or contracting the timeline to accommodate the command. Similarly, when I undo/ redo adding or deleting this media, there is a lag. This didn’t happen in CC2019 (13.1). But in that version, it did not instantly play media in the way 14.5 does.
Anyone?
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