-What drive the clip is on
I have three drives:
Drive 1 = 30 Gigs with only Windows XP SP2 + Applications (At the time I only had the production studio installed.) Connected to channel 1 on the MOBO
Drive 2 = 80 Gigs used as scratch disk (conformed audio, project files, preview files, etc.) Connected to channel 1 on a PCI ATA controller card
Drive 3 = 300 Gigs used for captured media only. Connected to Channel 2 on the MOBO
-How full is it?
All drives are less than 30% full.
-Defragged?
All drives are eide 7200 rpm drives that were formatted before the project.
-Project settings?
DV/Drop-Frame/29.97/720×480
-any difference in behavior if the subclip is from the beginning or end of the clip?
The problem appeared to be the same if the subclip was created from the begining of a master clip or the middle.
-anything else you think is important
When trying to play the subclip, the disk is being read but it just takes a long time before the clip will play. It almost seems as if PPRO is searching the entire master clip for the subclip section or trying to load the subclip section into ram. My first test with short subclips showed no problems, its only with larger subclips.