Update Timeline Data takes ages

Loe

Newbie Joined: Nov 25, 2010 10:27 Messages: 29 Offline

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Sep 27, 2019 14:44

Using PD18 Ultimate. generally pleased. It seems robust but there is one issue when loading a project.
This project does use 4K camera stuff but apart from some transitions, nothing fancy.
The video runs about 1 hour so yes, its quite big. Yet PD18 handles it fine. So pleased with that.
the problem is when I load recent project or for that matter load the project after navigating to it manually. Everything is fine until it needs to establish the timeline Data. It will go to 80% and then just hang there
doing heaven knows what. takes around 2 - 3 minutes and then the timeline is suddenly established.
This is very different from PD17.
I am sure that it is doing something it needs to do but this does not haooen in 17.
It actually takes so long, just when you start thinking this isnt going anywhere, it has hung, it suddenly shows the Timeline.

By the way, why is the naming of the projects suddenly changed and weird? I have mine in a dedicated folder but projects there are named C_users_name_documents_projectname(which has some very very long number attached).pds

optodata

Senior Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Sep 16, 2011 16:04 Messages: 8630 Offline

Sep 27, 2019 16:07

PD doesn't name (or rename) any of your projects. What you name each one is entirely up to you.

However, it sounds like you're looking in the Autosaves folder, where PD will automatically save your project every xx minutes, and the long number at the end is the year, month, date and time (down to the second) when each autosave occurred. All you need to do is browse your normal project folder to see your actual (and fully saved/complete) projects.

There have been reports of people seeing a long project loading time that got better if they turned off shadow files. If you're using them, PD won't delete them for 30 days, so it's OK to turn them off before you exit. When you load the project again, it should load much faster, and you can then re-enable shadow files if you want for smoother editing.

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Loe

Newbie Joined: Nov 25, 2010 10:27 Messages: 29 Offline

Sep 27, 2019 17:07

Quote PD doesn't name (or rename) any of your projects. What you name each one is entirely up to you.

However, it sounds like you're looking in the Autosaves folder, where PD will automatically save your project every xx minutes, and the long number at the end is the year, month, date and time (down to the second) when each autosave occurred. All you need to do is browse your normal project folder to see your actual (and fully saved/complete) projects.

There have been reports of people seeing a long project loading time that got better if they turned off shadow files. If you're using them, PD won't delete them for 30 days, so it's OK to turn them off before you exit. When you load the project again, it should load much faster, and you can then re-enable shadow files if you want for smoother editing.

No I am definetely not looking in the autosave folder but my folder where I have directed PD to save my projects. but it is possible, thinking about it that it is also autosaving there. Weird.
but i am aware of the difference between autosave and project save.

good point about the shadowfiles. I will see what difference it will make.

Loe

Newbie Joined: Nov 25, 2010 10:27 Messages: 29 Offline

Sep 29, 2019 07:31

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No I am definetely not looking in the autosave folder but my folder where I have directed PD to save my projects. but it is possible, thinking about it that it is also autosaving there. Weird.
but i am aware of the difference between autosave and project save.

good point about the shadowfiles. I will see what difference it will make.

I have resolved the naming issue. Although I was looking at my project folder, the autosaves were going to the same folder. Hence the confusion.
Switchinh off the shadow files indeed resolved the loading issue. Good call.