I'm getting very long merge times intermittently. I'm currently waiting on 25 minute stereo track to render. It's been 4 minutes and looks like it will be another 4 or so. Most times my Mac can do this in about a minute, but not always for some reason. The same project will sometimes render normally and other times take forever. Any idea whats's causing this?
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Intermittent Long Merge Times
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dix
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Intermittent Long Merge Times
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Re: Intermittent Long Merge Times
Just to clarify: Are you merging soundbites? Approximately how many?
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dix
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Re: Intermittent Long Merge Times
Just a few soundbites.
The sequence is quite CPU intensive. If I copy the soundbites to an empty Chunk I get normal merge-times (just a few seconds), so that’s a viable workaround, but I’ve never had do to that previously on large sequences - and it’s not always slow on this one. Do CPU intensive projects have slower render times for others? Bounce times are affected I know, but I’ve never noticed merge times being noticeably slower.
The sequence is quite CPU intensive. If I copy the soundbites to an empty Chunk I get normal merge-times (just a few seconds), so that’s a viable workaround, but I’ve never had do to that previously on large sequences - and it’s not always slow on this one. Do CPU intensive projects have slower render times for others? Bounce times are affected I know, but I’ve never noticed merge times being noticeably slower.
14-inch MBP M1 Max (2021), 13.6.x, 64GB RAM, UAD Quad Tb Satellite, 4 displays ::: 2009 4,1 > 5,1 MacPro 12-core 3.33 ghz , 10.14.x, 96GB RAM, GeForce GTX 770 , NewerTech eSATA/USB3 PCIe Host Adapter, UAD-2 Quad, ::: 15-inch MBP (2015) 10.14.x, 16GB RAM ::: Lynx Aurora (n) USB ::: DP (latest version), Vienna Ensemble Pro danwool.com
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Re: Intermittent Long Merge Times
I have not noticed this phenomenon dix. But most of my DP projects are a lot shorter than 25 minutes, so there's that.