Editing slows down over time

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Christoffer Glans

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Editing slows down over time

PostSun Apr 25, 2021 3:07 pm

Working on a normal timeline, some Red material, some ProRes and some H265.
Editing is going fine for a few hours of work, but then it starts to slow down, any command or change in the timeline takes 1-2 seconds to happen, regardless of what type of material or whatever.

There is no reason for this slowdown as it works perfectly well for a few hours. It just slows down all of a sudden. I have no cache or proxies in this, so there's no change in material or drive location.

What's going on here?
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Re: Editing slows down over time

PostSun Apr 25, 2021 3:08 pm

Christoffer Glans wrote:Working on a normal timeline
Out of curiosity, what's an 'abnormal' timeline?
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Re: Editing slows down over time

PostSun Apr 25, 2021 3:10 pm

Christoffer Glans wrote:What's going on here?
Post your system specs, including storage.
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Re: Editing slows down over time

PostSun Apr 25, 2021 3:20 pm

Jim Simon wrote:
Christoffer Glans wrote:Working on a normal timeline
Out of curiosity, what's an 'abnormal' timeline?


:mrgreen: Well, basically a ton of VFX, transitions, opacities, layers and so on. There's none of that, just pure hard cuts.

Jim Simon wrote:
Christoffer Glans wrote:What's going on here?
Post your system specs, including storage.


i9-7960X
64GB RAM
RTX 2080TI
18TB RAID0 (3 x 7200RPM)

But I've never had any problems before, neither with editing in Premiere or in Resolve.
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Re: Editing slows down over time

PostMon Apr 26, 2021 2:30 pm

Christoffer Glans wrote:just pure hard cuts.
Ahhh. I think I'd call that more of a 'simple' timeline. ;)

OK, that RAID is internal or external?
If internal, is it hardware or software? (You have a RAID controller installed?)
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