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system getting very sluggish
Equipment, DP 2ghz, 5 gigs ram, Balckmagic Decklink card, G-raid 500 gig, video drive editing DVCPROHD, 1080i material. rt on safe, video playback dynamic.
I’m about 2/3rds through a 1 hr 20 minute show and all of a sudden my system has slowed to a crawl. Every time I drag a clip on the timeline I must wait for the video to refresh and I’m getting a lot of the empty arrow wait, while it gathers it’s act. I still have 355 gb available on my hard drive, so that shouldn’t be a problem.
Any ideas on how to fix this issue?
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This slowness usually happens after FCP has crashed or shut down several times. I would trash all the preferences, including the cache, restart FCP and redo all your settings. You may want to rebuild permissions as an added bonus.
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FCP 4.5? I had this problem often in 4.5 when the project started to exceed 1 hour.
If you’re on FCP 5.0.2, it does get sluggish from time to time, but a quick save and restart of FCP will clear it up.
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It’s 5.0.2, and I’ve tried restarting and trashing preferences and neither seems to work.
thx..mb
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If you break your sequence into two halves, it should speed things up.
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that’s no good…. you can try splitting up your sequnces into 15 minute reels…. but I’ve had several 1.5 hour projects in FCP 5 at uncompressed SD that worked just fine.
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Also check the size of their project file. If it’s above 10-12Mb (easily achieved on docs with multiple versions), you need to slim things down and adopt a different workflow.
Break the project down first into Media/Edits, then further down into chapters/acts/interviews, whatever seems most logical. Also weed out redundant edits by archiving them, keeping the project with your main edit up to date and as lean as possible.
There’s no problem for FCP to have multiple projects open simultaneously, you can copy, cut and paste between them.
Also, make sure that you regularly save your projects using the “Save As…” dialogue, forcing the whole file to be re-written from the ground up on a regular basis. Apparently months of saving to the same file is a recipe for corruption, and simply backing up a buggy file is no insurance against losing your work.
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