I filled a 1TB drive with my clips from all previous clients and was going to work on a demo containing clips from all past clients. So I decided to give the Media Manger a try. I created a DB, and went to add media starting at the root of my media directory on the new drive.
For reference, the system is XP_Pro32bit with Vegas 8.0c on a 3GHz P4HT with 2.5GB DDR1 ram with all video data on a 1TB external USB2 docked SATAII drive and the OS installed on a ATA-6 drive based RAID-0 (but the hardware should hardly be the limiting factor for a simple operation like adding media to the MM).
When I actually watch the progress bar, the "New Files" tab only adds a new entry every five to ten minutes. TEN MINUTES! One of the two "CPUs" (on the task manager) is pegged, but the pace of adding files is horribly horribly slow. There are 15K files to work through in that directory (as reported by windows) but 1/2 of those files should be the vegas wave form files. So only 8K unique video / audio files to add. 2hours into the job and progress is only reported as having added 1400 files 18% complete.
As I see it, the MM only has to do three things when it adds media:
1) Create a thumbnail image
2) Save a path reference to the media
3) Add all that to the MS SQL DB
What is wrong with the Media Manager that it botches what should be a dead simple process? The source file hard drive only ticks some activity once every other second or so, so I know the MM is not thrashing the HD. The MM database is stored on a RAID0 hard drive and that drive activity barely ever has anything happening.
I could write a php / perl / python script to enumerate the paths to all .avi / wav files in the same root directory, create a thumbnail of a random frame from the videos, connect to a MySQL database, perform an insert, and do all that in probably 5 minutes max. What the heck is wrong with your application Sony? The Media Manager is a steaming pile of crap! Was the code written by monkeys?
Is anyone else adding a large volume of clips to the MM and experiencing horrid performance?
Has anyone else found a better solution for a large volume of clips?
For reference, the system is XP_Pro32bit with Vegas 8.0c on a 3GHz P4HT with 2.5GB DDR1 ram with all video data on a 1TB external USB2 docked SATAII drive and the OS installed on a ATA-6 drive based RAID-0 (but the hardware should hardly be the limiting factor for a simple operation like adding media to the MM).
When I actually watch the progress bar, the "New Files" tab only adds a new entry every five to ten minutes. TEN MINUTES! One of the two "CPUs" (on the task manager) is pegged, but the pace of adding files is horribly horribly slow. There are 15K files to work through in that directory (as reported by windows) but 1/2 of those files should be the vegas wave form files. So only 8K unique video / audio files to add. 2hours into the job and progress is only reported as having added 1400 files 18% complete.
As I see it, the MM only has to do three things when it adds media:
1) Create a thumbnail image
2) Save a path reference to the media
3) Add all that to the MS SQL DB
What is wrong with the Media Manager that it botches what should be a dead simple process? The source file hard drive only ticks some activity once every other second or so, so I know the MM is not thrashing the HD. The MM database is stored on a RAID0 hard drive and that drive activity barely ever has anything happening.
I could write a php / perl / python script to enumerate the paths to all .avi / wav files in the same root directory, create a thumbnail of a random frame from the videos, connect to a MySQL database, perform an insert, and do all that in probably 5 minutes max. What the heck is wrong with your application Sony? The Media Manager is a steaming pile of crap! Was the code written by monkeys?
Is anyone else adding a large volume of clips to the MM and experiencing horrid performance?
Has anyone else found a better solution for a large volume of clips?