Thanks for your response, Mark. I think something more is going on… on Friday afternoon I rendered out a 13-minute timeline, and it took approximately 1 hour to render. Later that day the system got caught in a “running low on memory” loop and I had to force quit the application. I shut down the computer and let it sit, and when I booted back up and started Avid, all the render files were gone. I set it to render again, and it took 5 hours to render the same 13-minute timeline. (With the client pacing the hallways like an expectant father!)
Today it is more responsive than Friday night, but there’s about a 2-second delay between when I click on the timeline and when the cursor moves to that position. I don’t know what else to do, short of requesting that the producer get an engineer in to look over the system. If you have any other suggestions, I’d love to hear them. Thanks!