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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?

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

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

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

Basic wrote: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

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.

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?

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.