Slow Time Line

[Mark Raudonis]

Make sure that you have “dupe detection” turned off in ALL of your timelines in this large project. Even if it’s on in a timeline that’s not open, this can significantly slowdown your timeline. You may also want to turn off all “screen redraw” features like thumbnails, audio waveforms etc.

We regularly work with one hour timelines using multiple tracks (Picture within picture), grfx etc. accessing thousands of hours of storage via x-san. The only time we’ve had this kind of unacceptable slowness was due to the “dupe detection” being on. Turning it off made all the difference in the world.

Good luck.

Mark

[Chris Reynolds]

Thanks Mark
I will give that a try tonight

Cheers, Chris

[Nick Price]

Chris,
I second Marks comments. Dupe Detection in 4.5 slows the whole project down instantly (how ironic). Turn it off for all your sequences in that project otheriwse it will still affect an open timeline.
nick

[Josephine Healey]

I too ran into a very similar problem with a large project of abour 50 hours that had multiple sequences and lots of media. Some of the clips ran well over 15 minutes and I often use quite a bit of markers. However,as soon as I updated to 10.3.9 the sluggishness seemed to decrease tremendously, if not entirely and of course I made sure I had dupe detection off as well, since I agree that can cause a slow down. Have you tried to update to 10.3.9? I’ve heard that makes a major difference to a lot of people.

[Michael Buday]

Kevin,

I would think that most operators would find that workflow to be a serious limitation if in fact, long media files are the cause of the problem. It’s now becoming commonplace for some show formats in LA to capture ALL the media on EVERY camera roll – especially for reality shows where NOTHING gets left on the cutting room floor, EVERYTHING gets digitized. The AVID has an option that allows long captures to be automatically broken up into smaller files – but the bin still points to a single contiguous clip. Does FCP have such an option?

I’m a great believer in doing what you say – preselecting my shots to minimize the amount of clips I need to deal with, but with compression codecs getting better everyday, and with storage getting cheaper, many users want to capture everything.

Michael Buday

[Chris Reynolds]

Thanks to all
Dupe Detection was the cause. Once turn off in every sequence throught the whole project the system is running as if is only 5 min of footage digitised.

Thanks again

Cheers, Chris