My company specializes primarily in weddings and we are looking to squeeze one more season out of our mix of 60D and 5D cameras. In order to get more latitude during editing I used MPEG Streamclip to convert all of our Canon *.MOV files to Avid DNxHD 145 8-bit files (tried 220 and 10-bit as well, but the benefit was negligible versus time & file to added benefit).
When trying to add what was initially a 32GB card with 80+ clips converted to 145 8-bit to the timeline (approximately 90GB), Vegas simply freezes. I thought it might be the computer hanging, but it's a i7-3930k with 32GB of Ram and separate hard drives (O.S., render, Main, Media) with the drive it's reading from being a Raid 0 with 7200 RPM Seagate hard drives. It quickly stalls and I even left it up overnight to see if it was just a weird delay. It simply wouldn't load.
So then I tried it on a another computer with an i7-950 and 16GB of Ram with the same effect. It just hangs.
After some other testing I could transfer a fully converted card (around 90GB) to the timeline with no issue if it had less than 12 or so files. It appears to be an issue with file number, not size.
Anything that I can adjust to help these files load? Our current work around is cutting the folders down to sub 50 file counts and loading them. No problems with that so far, I'd just rather load and go.
When trying to add what was initially a 32GB card with 80+ clips converted to 145 8-bit to the timeline (approximately 90GB), Vegas simply freezes. I thought it might be the computer hanging, but it's a i7-3930k with 32GB of Ram and separate hard drives (O.S., render, Main, Media) with the drive it's reading from being a Raid 0 with 7200 RPM Seagate hard drives. It quickly stalls and I even left it up overnight to see if it was just a weird delay. It simply wouldn't load.
So then I tried it on a another computer with an i7-950 and 16GB of Ram with the same effect. It just hangs.
After some other testing I could transfer a fully converted card (around 90GB) to the timeline with no issue if it had less than 12 or so files. It appears to be an issue with file number, not size.
Anything that I can adjust to help these files load? Our current work around is cutting the folders down to sub 50 file counts and loading them. No problems with that so far, I'd just rather load and go.