Slow Edius Pro 4.5-4.6

[hvx_germanboy]

I got a SP card and the exact same problem...difficulty is the circumstance that i am working on a documentary with massive footage size...that takes some time when i open projects, but i cant say its minutes..maybe 1 maximum, and thats when i open projects with 4 or 5 timelines, that contain about 3 hours each...i dont have any effect when edius autosaves..Editing is smooth and without problems...opening up is the only slow down..or switching..which i dont do too often..

[SRsupport]

I do think this will get fixed.

BTW my cards don't flap NX_E and the firecoder card. They sit nice in my system. :)


Steve

[tingsern]

Okay - I am sorry that hear that the NX Express card has a problem in that case.

Before this one, I am only aware of one physical problem -

The NX card is fairly long - and the Express slot on the card is so small - the card flaps in the breeze if you have a powerful ventilation fan. Over time, I am not sure if it will cause problems to the card.

Now I know there are two problems ....

[SRsupport]

I have tried it in a lot of ways and I don't get an instant response. I don't have to do more test I can tell you that.
I don't come to those conclusions without doing lots and lots of tests.

I also have storms systems and a ohci system to compare results of responsiveness in switching.
Steve

[tingsern]

If you read my previous replies - if you just start EDIUS with nothing in the bin, and you minimise EDIUS and then bring it out again, I get instant response. The moment you load up the bin with lots and lots of clips, then it starts to slow down. With a maximum of 128 open clips that can be shown on my secondary monitor in the bin, I record of about 10 seconds for EDIUS to be up again - versus nearly 0 seconds with nothing in the bin.

Why don't Steve try it with nothing in the bin and see whether he gets instant response?

I am surprised I am the one of the few people here running NX on PCI-X (133mhz, 64 bits).

[SoundFreak]

On my office System, Edius 4.54 with DV storm2 card, it switches instantly.

On my home System, Edius 4.54 with NX pci-express card (no hd extension) it takes much longer to switch, Loading large projects on both systems is a matter of seconds, nothing longer than starting photoshop ...............

[SRsupport]

Just to make sure we are all on the same page:
we are talking about slow switching not during editing.

example: you do graphics in photo shop and have edius and photo shop open
You maximize photo shop (focus) now when you go back to Edius to view the results it take some time for Edius to come back.
it is not only between EDIUS and photoshop but it happens between EDius and other apps.

Switching between other apps is smooth.
It is only Edius that shows this behaviour.

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.

[SRsupport]

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

Steve

[tingsern]

PCI-X (64 bits PCI) version.

[SRsupport]

Which version of the Nx do you have?

[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.

[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]

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.

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