This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] MC 7 issues - followup

Those are definitely my impressions of increasing RAM to 16 and adding the SSD.

Totally different user experience

On Oct 3, 2013, at 9:29 AM, Rich Ford <rrfedit@gmail.com> wrote:

So I removed the 8 GB of RAM that came with my 2011 MBP (see specs below) and installed 16 GB of Crucial RAM.

In my initial testing, all of the symptoms listed below are either vastly reduced or gone altogether:

- MC launches faster (about 38 seconds to get to the "open project" dialog)

- the export import symptoms listed below are gone.

- exiting the app takes less than 20 seconds (rather than a full minute).

- MC feels snappier

- OSX ML feels snappier.

- I can open and run Adobe Media Encoder full throttle without having to quit out of MC.

Yay.

These are first impressions. I will report back if any of these issues creep up when I am really banging on the system.

- Rich

ps. David D - have you tried upping your RAM?

> I have been using MC 7 for awhile now, and wanted to find out if others have come across the issues noted below.
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> I have what I assume is fairly common set up: 2011 MBP, 8 gigs of RAM, OSX 10.8.4, MC 7.0.2, Matrox MXO2 mini for monitoring. I used MC 7.0.0 until recently. The issues exist in both releases.
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> 1) Whenever I launch MC, the first time I either export or import I get a spinning beach ball for anywhere from 2 - 4 minutes, then it proceeds to execute the import or export. Every import or export after that acts normally, until I close out of MC. Then next time I launch MC, same thing.
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> The first few times I thought MC was hung (and the force quit dialog box showed it as "not responding") so I force quit. But then I tried some (uncharacteristic) patience, and found that if I waited it out it would get around to the export or import.
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> 2) When I do a normal quit from MC 7, it takes up to a minute before the app is fully gone.
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> Are these RAM issues? I didn't have either of them running MC 6 on the same rig.
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> I have also noticed some not quite snappy operation at the finder level that started when I did the upgrade to ML from Lion.
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> Any ideas?
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> Thanks,
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> - Rich
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> Rich Ford
> Hot Sprocket Films