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I have a project that spans many years by now and was actually started in Premiere..
I work on it from time to time between other small projects.
It's a documentary with 4k H264 footage spanning many years.
Regularly new footage is added in the form of 1 or more shots.
Almost all shots are graded simultaneously (partly because I really enjoy that process)
The timeline has now exceeded 1 hour and this slows down the response time to near-unworkable.
Disabling thumbnails doesn't really help.
The problem is that every time I Paste Insert, or change a clip length, Resolve freezes for a moment, 10 seconds seems to be the norm now. When I press play nothing happens, until the playback speeds up to 'catch up the lost time' and then resumes.
So there's optimized media and proxies.
Both will likely require a separate harddisk to save all new video data.
And since new footage is added regularly I'm not sure what that process will be like.
And I don't know if that will actually speed up Resolve's response in this case.
I'm considering getting an 8TB SSD (Samsung 870 QVO) to store all the video on instead, as it's stored on an internal 8GB HDD now (WD Red 128MB cache). But there's no guarantee this will actually speed up the timeline as it could be a problem within Resolve.
Another consideration is cutting up the scenes in several timelines "like the old days". But that would make it harder to move scenes around etc.
Long story short:
Does anybody know if this lag in response is related to HDD read/search times?
Especially since this doesn't happen with small projects.
Short projects of around 5-10 minutes work very responsive, no trouble there.
Win10, i7 6900k, 32GB RAM, Geforce GTX 1060 (6GB)
I work on it from time to time between other small projects.
It's a documentary with 4k H264 footage spanning many years.
Regularly new footage is added in the form of 1 or more shots.
Almost all shots are graded simultaneously (partly because I really enjoy that process)
The timeline has now exceeded 1 hour and this slows down the response time to near-unworkable.
Disabling thumbnails doesn't really help.
The problem is that every time I Paste Insert, or change a clip length, Resolve freezes for a moment, 10 seconds seems to be the norm now. When I press play nothing happens, until the playback speeds up to 'catch up the lost time' and then resumes.
So there's optimized media and proxies.
Both will likely require a separate harddisk to save all new video data.
And since new footage is added regularly I'm not sure what that process will be like.
And I don't know if that will actually speed up Resolve's response in this case.
I'm considering getting an 8TB SSD (Samsung 870 QVO) to store all the video on instead, as it's stored on an internal 8GB HDD now (WD Red 128MB cache). But there's no guarantee this will actually speed up the timeline as it could be a problem within Resolve.
Another consideration is cutting up the scenes in several timelines "like the old days". But that would make it harder to move scenes around etc.
Long story short:
Does anybody know if this lag in response is related to HDD read/search times?
Especially since this doesn't happen with small projects.
Short projects of around 5-10 minutes work very responsive, no trouble there.
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Win10, i7 6900k, 32GB RAM, Geforce GTX 1060 (6GB)