IsraEliteMedia wrote:Marc you are running 128 currently? Weird, but when I check the preference of loading timelines as you suggested, it makes zero difference on the switching to my Master timeline. It still takes 22 seconds.
That sounds like an awfully long time to me. I start to get antsy and yell out rude things if I even have to wait even 10 seconds for a timeline to switch.
In the old days, there were very real limits as to how many clips and how much complexity we could have in a single timeline. I used to limit one timeline to no more than (say) 1000 clips and about 40 minutes of material, do I'd do either 2 or 3 or even 4 "virtual reels" for a 2-hour feature, just so that timeline switching and system response was more snappy.
But with Resolve 18 earlier this year, I started leaving the timelines as-is, and I've been OK with 1500, 1800, even 2000 shots in a single timeline. And some of these had fairly "heavy" node structures, with 36-40 nodes, noise reduction, OFX effects, group grade looks, film emulation, the whole deal. We're using a 2019 MacPro with 256GB of RAM and a Radeon Pro Vega II Duo GPU, plus (mostly) SSD RAIDs, and it's rare that I encounter a slowdown. When we do, an OFX plug-in (or multiple 4K streams) is generally the culprit, and we just cache that effect or transition.