Bob Roberts
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Whenever I run into General Error I toss my preferences and thumbnail cache…seems to do the trick.
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I’ve seen an Adaptec SATA II controller, Seagate SATA II drives, and Hitachi SATA II drives. It seems like the technology is starting to pick up. Also, even if you don’t have an SATA II controller most SATA II drives seem to state they are backwards-compatible with standard SATA.
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I agree with the Hitachi/Seagate as best of breed. Also, look at the new SATA II (aka Serial ATA 300). Doubles the working read/write speed to approximately 90mb/s to/from a single drive.
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MAX2AE — Check out https://www.boomerlabs.com/
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Since I don’t have the specifics of your project I can only give some broad stroke advice…
Duplicate your comp and give it a new name related to the new piece of footage. Then, with the layer that needs to be replaced highlighted in the timeline, hold down the OPTION key (Mac shortcut) and drag your new layer over the one selected in the timeline…this will replace the footage but keep all the filters and keyframes from the previous thing in place.
Precompose and prerender as much as possible, so your replacement only needs to occur in one place and you can take advantage of filling up the render queue and walking away.
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I just broke the project up into 6 smaller projects and everything is back to normal. Sweet.
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I just dumped all of my outdated sequences and brought a 100MB file down to 11! Still having lagging issues with graphic editing tools. My next step is to break the project up into smaller pieces…interviews, b-roll, tons of still photographs, audio, etc…
Thanks for all the advice.
Slightly off topic…does Avid have similar issues with large amounts of media management? I don’t want this to descend into a FCP vs. Avid shootout…just asking if anyone can speak from experience.
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My project file is 97MB right now.