[Avid-L2] Re: What "is" filler?

There was an issue playing filler on older computers like HP 8200's because the location of the filler media had changed and the slower computers would drop frames as they struggled to find the media in time. Somehow the location of filler changed, this may have been corrected by now, but it sounds like your having the issue some had about a year ago. I remember people running 8400's or better didn't see the issue.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "shieldsy72" <PaulShieldsAvidL@...> wrote:
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> Technical question: When MC plays "black" or filler (like if you have a gap between two clips) what is it actually playing? Is there a pre-generated black frame like the media offline frame that it defaults to or is it generating it on the fly?
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> I ask because we're having some issues with serious frame drop on filler on 2 of our Symphonies (DX v3.5.1). One of them now will not play out over a gap (like between the clock and the programme start) without stopping for a dropped frame and if you drag across the black and some video, it is noticably "stickier" on the black. This is only in HD projects. It behaves like there's an effect on a clip which it is struggling to play in real time - sadly we can't just render the filler. We've been adding rendered black titles after clocks but I've got 13 episodes of a show that need extensive clean elements dropping on and it'll be a major ball ache to drop titles into all the gaps.
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> We've just tried reinstalling the app but before we completely rebuild the system we want to work out what the system is actually doing at the point it's struggling. If it's not pulling media from anywhere, what is it sticking on?
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> Any suggestions?
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> Ta
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