too many clips on timeline cause FREEZE? poss fix?

onionsayswhat wrote on 3/7/2015, 12:56 PM
I do believe (this is really a question) having too many clips on timeline might be cause of ms 13 freezing while editing?

I have 3 hours of clips on my timeline.

I know with Serif Movie Plus the more clips on your timeline the more likely it was to crash.

Yup, I am back to the screen freezing again.

Now, I know some people have offered other fixes, which I can try but I thought of a possible easy fix and just wanted to know if anyone sees a problem with this.

I could break the 3 hours on the SONY MS 13 into smaller projects of say 30 minutes.

Perhaps that will eliminate the screen freezing?

So then just edit the project in 30 minute segments.

I guess to get them all into the final project - I would simply render each 30 minute FINISHED segment to a file and then when all of the segments are completely edited and rendered to files, simply import them all back into one project?

Will this work?

If I keep the render and import settings at the h def of 1440 by 1080 will I lose any picture quality given all of the rendering and importing?

I already rendered the entire project to h def files when I had it in SERIF MOVIEPLUS and imported them into SONY MS 13 to begin (being as SERIF could not render more than 15 minutes of clips).

Thanks for any help!

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 3/8/2015, 9:31 AM
How much video you can add to your project is most often based on your hardware specs than the program itself. If you're running a 64-bit operating system, you've got a good i5 or i7 quad core processor and at least 8 gigs of RAM (and a desktop rather than a laptop -- unless you've got a very high end laptop), you should not have a limit on the amount of video you can add.

Of course, it also depends on what format and codec the video is using. If you're using a standard video format -- such as video from an AVCHD or miniDV camcorder -- the program should have no problems assimilating the video. If your video is an MOV file from a still camera or phone or, worst of all, video from FRAPS or some other screen recording software, things could be much touchier unless you've properly set up your project to match your video specs.