[Avid-L2] Re: Saving seq in Symphony 4 takes 4ever

Okay, something is VERY wrong with your system. Is this a rental or someone's system you will be on for a while?

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Marc Fisher <cav2ya@...> wrote:
>
> Hey TErry,
> My seq is act one of a show. 8 1/2 minutes. cuts and a few whip pan
> type of things. NO sapphire or Boris Plugins. few titles. nothing that
> should make it take as long as it does.
>
> i do have a few bins open, but again,i'm just putting the system
> through it's paces, so there's not alot on the system, or in the bins.
>
>
>
> marc
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2010, at 6:58 PM, Terence Curren wrote:
>
> > How big is your sequence? Unless you have an hour show with tons of
> > sources and tons of effects, it shouldn't take long at all to save.
> > How large is the actual bin? (check at system level)
> >
> > What version are you on? The very early versions had bugs that
> > caused long saves. (We're talking 1.x versions)
> >
> > After major operations, like batch capture and rendering, Symphony
> > autosaves. It will save every open bin that has been changed. That
> > can include links. So lets say you decompose into a bin, and use
> > that to capture. Every time you stop, it autosaves. If you also have
> > the sequence in there, it will be saving a much larger bin. If you
> > have the sequence in a separate bin and it is open, that bin will
> > get saved also.
> >
> > Because of this, I tend to only have the bins open I immediately
> > need. If batch capturing, only the bin with clips to be captured open.
> >
> > Also, what version of system are you running? With Symphony Nitris,
> > you really need Vista 64 to not run out of memory all the time.
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Marc Fisher <cav2ya@> wrote:
> > >
> > > hey all in the borg. i'm sitting on a newly installed Symphony 4,
> > and
> > > we're putting it through it's paces
> > >
> > > is there any reason why it would take several minutes to save the
> > seq
> > > after capture? this gets annoying while batch capturing, stopping to
> > > switch decks, then wait for save, then conitnue..
> > >
> > > is there a list of how to optimize the Winxp or Symph settings?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > marc
> > > "where's my DS"
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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