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I work for a news station and all of my editors + reporters use Edius for daily functions. My station recently upgraded from Edius 7 to Edius 9, installed on brand new, high end towers. All new hardware. Since the upgrade, we've experienced Edius crashes at an alarming rate. We used to have the occasional crash, now it's excessive. Worked on a project for 2 & 1/2 hours the other day and experienced 13 crashes.
I've noticed a few things I'm hoping someone can confirm/deny for me: Edius 9 doesn't really like mp4s now? We've had issues galore with them that we didn't have on the previous version we were using. We basically now have to save them as mxf files before we can even start editing. Layering video is causing freezing and crashes. For example, if I have a vertically shot video that I'm trying to put a blurry version of it blown up underneath, it crashes. There's a tremendous amount of lag. When I take my cursor, and click and drag it to quickly scrub through video, instead of it being smooth, it skips over large chunks and seems like it is trying to catch up. To reiterate, this is normal video from known sources that we never had an issue with before. Some of it is stored locally, but most of it is downloads from our network server. As an affiliate, we get video from the mother ship (in the form of mpegs) and video from our other source as mp4s. Everything that comes off our network server is an mxf. Again, all file types seem to be giving us issues, but mp4s in particular are proving to be near impossible to edit with.
I'm ready to rule out hardware because our desktops have more than enough computing power to run Edius, and even Chrome! So is there some kind of upgrade or patch we're missing? Could this be a network issue? Anyone have similar issues?
Looking for some insight before I go completely mad.
I've noticed a few things I'm hoping someone can confirm/deny for me: Edius 9 doesn't really like mp4s now? We've had issues galore with them that we didn't have on the previous version we were using. We basically now have to save them as mxf files before we can even start editing. Layering video is causing freezing and crashes. For example, if I have a vertically shot video that I'm trying to put a blurry version of it blown up underneath, it crashes. There's a tremendous amount of lag. When I take my cursor, and click and drag it to quickly scrub through video, instead of it being smooth, it skips over large chunks and seems like it is trying to catch up. To reiterate, this is normal video from known sources that we never had an issue with before. Some of it is stored locally, but most of it is downloads from our network server. As an affiliate, we get video from the mother ship (in the form of mpegs) and video from our other source as mp4s. Everything that comes off our network server is an mxf. Again, all file types seem to be giving us issues, but mp4s in particular are proving to be near impossible to edit with.
I'm ready to rule out hardware because our desktops have more than enough computing power to run Edius, and even Chrome! So is there some kind of upgrade or patch we're missing? Could this be a network issue? Anyone have similar issues?
Looking for some insight before I go completely mad.
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