Slow Edius Pro 4.5-4.6

[Fawzi]

Dear all,
I'm having problems with edius, it's too slow to come back after I't has been iconized or after loosing the focus.
The project takes also almost 5 minutes to load at the begining.
Did some one experience a such problem and please can help me to fixe, I have also un EDIUS NX PCI-e realtime editing board.
Thanks to help me.

fawzi

[tingsern]

Do you have hundreds of clips in your BIN? If you have - I have the answer. The program has to open all the clips to display the "images", and if you minimise it and then open it again, all the clips have to be re-displayed again.

If you don't any - then how much RAM do you have on your system?

And do you have any dedicated SWAP FILE space (as a single partition) on your Hard-disk?

[Rusty]

Fawzi, welcome to the Forum!

Have you also noticed the lag to open, then display window information? It is most apparent when you open a Clip Properties window. (Select clip then "Alt+Enter") The window opens... (1+/- sec pause) then the properties are displayed. Not there in 4.52.

[SRsupport]

I don't think it is system fault.
I also have noticed this.
I have a real fast 8 core xeon system 1600 fsb. 2 gig of ram and a fast raid.

I have done some test with AE and Sony vegas with lots of clips and they switch way faster.

Edius is even slow to come back if you press the windows key by accident.

Most people experiencing this problem have a nx express.

I think that there is something wrong .

Steve

[jthomas]

I don't think it is system fault.
I also have noticed this.
I have a real fast 8 core xeon system 1600 fsb. 2 gig of ram and a fast raid.

I have done some test with AE and Sony vegas with lots of clips and they switch way faster.

Edius is even slow to come back if you press the windows key by accident.

Most people experiencing this problem have a nx express.

I think that there is something wrong .

Steve

I am still using the DvStorm and don't have that problem at all. Probably is a problem with the NX.

[SRsupport]

Yip that is why I included the line about the nx express.


Steve

[Fawzi]

For your info

Thanks for all I appreciate your replies, I just want to post my system conf. just to show that I have a good PC, fast disks and beleave me I deal with computers since i was born (but i don't remember :-) the first years I was so young )

Since the Edius 3, everything was OK, may be I didn't work on big and complexe projects, but now it's really a nightmare.
I took the NX new from an italian vendor for 1100,00 Euros but now i'm frustrated to have a so called mounster but no way to make it work.
I tried to change parameters from the Bios, disconnect all the external disks,
but it's still take long time to getup from his sleeeeeeeeeeep.
I hope Canopus will release some patch or give us a work arround, just to use
a 1000 Euros gadget sleeping in my PCI-e slot.
Thanks for all
Fawzi

Motherboard: ASUS P5WD2 Premium
OS: Windows XP Pro (32-bit)
Processor: Intel Pentium 4
Processore Freq.: 3000 MHz
RAM: 2 Gb
RAM Type: DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 (256 MB)
Audio Card: Intel 82801GB ICH7 - High Definition (Bios Disabled)
External Audio :Hercules 16/12 Fw 96KHs FireWire
Netw. interface: Intel(R) PRO/1000 PL Network Connection and Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Disc controller: Intel(R) 82801GB Serial ATA

[Fawzi]

Hi TingSern,
Thaks for your help, I posted my PC configuartion so you can have an idea about my hardware.
In fact my Bin for this project is realy a mass and i'll try to make some cleanup and see the result. Yes i have an almost 300 Gb of a quasi empty SATA disk (The big game man...) but I don't know.
All the best
Fawzi

[tingsern]

Try this first ...

Start up EDIUS 4 by using a new project - NOTHING in the BIN. Minimise that - and then bring it up again ... is it still slow to open up?

For reference, my system (EDIUS NX on PCI-X) ... which is 64 bits PCI (not Express slot) with nothing in the BIN takes nearly instantaneous to return to me after I deliberately minimise it.

With a normal BIN of 120 clips displayed on the screen, after I minimise it, EDIUS takes about 10 seconds to return to the screen.

My system configuration is shown below - using Xeon quad core - dual processors - 3.16 Ghz chips.

[regjo]

edius is getting slow

edius is very slow when you have a lots of clips in the bin and lots of cuts in the timeline.i had a 1-30 hour with lots of cuts and the timeline was getting laagy and sloww.also the real time perfomance was to bad even tho i did have any filters at the clips.i never had this problem with avid

[tingsern]

Even though I had at one time on a project ... 350 clips with 4 - 6 filters at places on the timeline with a video of about 30 minutes in total ... I don't experience that slowness like what you described. I had 1 VA, 2 V, 4 T, and 3 A lines open on this project. It look about 1 minute to open everything ... but, once it is opened, everything is very fast.

I suspect it might be your hardware or something else other than EDIUS that is causing this problem.

[SRsupport]

Which version of the Nx do you have?

[tingsern]

PCI-X (64 bits PCI) version.

[SRsupport]

That is the difference between you and all of us tortured by the delayed switching. :)
We all use the pci express version

Steve

[biopic]

I agree. I have had several projects of over 2 hours duration, lots of sequences, lots of clips, titles, effects, etc. Opening and saving can take a little while, which is only to be expected, but editing NEVER slows down for me. The only other thing to watch is the autosave function. In a complex project it can get a bit annoying, in which case I increase the time between saves to 3 or 5 minutes.