Switching Decks - Slow

[kmifflin]

I have a fairly large composition I'm using for a tour right now and I'm finding that it take a long time to switch between decks. Around 10 secs before the next Deck is loaded.

The Composition is 3840x720 with a for monitor 1920x1080
There is 10 Decks with 2 layers each layer has 40 clips on.
Each clip is 1920x1080.

When I monitor the drive when Switching Decks it peaks at a 4MB/s and cpu usage is around 20%

Compter Spec's
The media is on a RAID Drive that has been verified to Read and Write at 420 MB/s
i7 2600
16 GB of Memory
HD7970

Any idea's?

[cosmowe]

When you search for this topic in this forum ... you'll get a lot of results....and you can read the whole story about this issue.

The resolume guys know that we all would really appreciate a "on-fire" deck-switching time. Click'nZapp!!
If you compare R3.X.X with R4.X.X you'll see that they did a lot of work here...
hmm.. From my point of view...I would say it's still a long way to be "perfect" ....but they are on the way


Greetz
cosmowe

EDIT:
By the way...my deck switching time is round a bound a half a minute
solution: I only use one deck with 800 clips

[Basic]

how many clips are you using in total and do you need 10 decks?

If you don't then it might pay you too have everything on one deck?

deck switching/loading in 2.4 was amazing!

[cosmowe]

I never played with 2.4.
question: the decks in 2.4 were limited?

[Joris]

R2 had a maximum of 20 clips per deck. It's one sure way of keeping your deck switching fast.

[kmifflin]

how many clips are you using in total and do you need 10 decks?

If you don't then it might pay you too have everything on one deck?

deck switching/loading in 2.4 was amazing!

I using Arena to map the slices on to various set pieces.
I'm using 400 actual mov's but 800 clips in total

Each deck has 2 layers. The first layer is assigned to A on the crossfader and second is assigned to B on the Crossfader. Each layer has the same 40 clips loaded. I'm using the ACP40 to trigger the clips. And there is a group of 40 pads on the APC40 that work perfectly for this.

I'm for this tour I'm planning on increase the amount of Decks to 20

[Basic]

Woah that sounds crazy! Do you have any video's of it or will you have anything after the tour?

Pretty heavy composition you have.

Yeah the Apc is perfect i find. I only have the 20 but wish i invested in the 40... so many good controllers out atm.

[alienskies101]

I've got the same problem. 20 clips per deck, each deck for a different part of a set. But when I go between them, suddenly the frame rate plummets to 5 fps for a second - the output looks terrible.

Got to be solution to this? SSD?

[asperi]

What is the max amount of clips per layer, layers per deck? I had it max out on me but dont remember. Anyways, deck switching will always take time. I would rethink how you are using the a/b cross fader, have one layer be A and the other B? Also that comp size, I would put the comp size as the same size as your clips, I run 1920x1080 comp and clips- output to 3024x768. Guessing you are using a TripleHead2go? Let the Gpu do that. R4 seems to run slower if you have it stretching clips. Not sure on your specifics but just commenting from past experience.