Resolve 17 MultiCam Waveforms Delayed Loading
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:43 amHello!
I'm experiencing very delayed (but selective) waveform loading times in the Edit Page on Resolve 17 Studio. All clips are inside of a MultiCam timeline, however some (the number of tracks and resolution are seemingly irrelevant) load faster than others.
My specific question is: Does waveform loading time heavily depend on the speed of the drive/s that you are pulling from? All of my media is located on 8TB (External) Seagate drives (not ideal, I know, but I am working with >40TB of media and have not been able to convince the Director of the project to invest in a RAID Array or NAS... Yet...). Is it normal (as of Resolve 17's current release; which is what I am on) to take ~10 minutes to generate waveforms from a 5-angle 4K multi-cam clip or is there likely something else wrong with my system? I am working off of a 2019 Mac Pro with an Afterburner accelerator card installed (6 slots of 2933 MHz DDR4 R-DIMM (so 96GB) and a 16-Core Intel Xeon W). Scaling the Audio/Video lanes sometimes helps, but not reliably.
Any help on understanding this variable delay would be greatly appreciated (as I could potentially convince my boss to invest in a faster drive... if that is indeed the issue)!
Thank you for any insight you can provide!!
I'm experiencing very delayed (but selective) waveform loading times in the Edit Page on Resolve 17 Studio. All clips are inside of a MultiCam timeline, however some (the number of tracks and resolution are seemingly irrelevant) load faster than others.
My specific question is: Does waveform loading time heavily depend on the speed of the drive/s that you are pulling from? All of my media is located on 8TB (External) Seagate drives (not ideal, I know, but I am working with >40TB of media and have not been able to convince the Director of the project to invest in a RAID Array or NAS... Yet...). Is it normal (as of Resolve 17's current release; which is what I am on) to take ~10 minutes to generate waveforms from a 5-angle 4K multi-cam clip or is there likely something else wrong with my system? I am working off of a 2019 Mac Pro with an Afterburner accelerator card installed (6 slots of 2933 MHz DDR4 R-DIMM (so 96GB) and a 16-Core Intel Xeon W). Scaling the Audio/Video lanes sometimes helps, but not reliably.
Any help on understanding this variable delay would be greatly appreciated (as I could potentially convince my boss to invest in a faster drive... if that is indeed the issue)!
Thank you for any insight you can provide!!