PD16 stalling when using mask designer for map animation

_Angus_

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May 29, 2020 10:47

Hi guys,

It's that time again. :

I'm attempting to edit our trip to New Zealand (from February) and I'm confused.

This year I wanted to produce a better map solution than I've done in the past, so I'm using 2 images of a map, one with a red line showing our route and then peeling back a mask with keyframes to gradualy display it (courtesy of Steve Grisetti's excellent youtube tutorial).

In theory it works but PD is reduced to a crawl and I can't even see the map when I'm adjusting the mask. I believe it's because I'm using massive map pictures (54 megabytes) I have 32Gbs memory and the 1060 card has 6Gbs if that is relevant. The thing is, I want to zoom in on the maps a lot, so they need to be pretty big. If this is the problem are there any cunning tricks I can use to get round it? Is there something I can do with Shadow files (which I know nothing about)?

As ever, thanks for reading and I appreciate any thoughts.

Cheers.

optodata

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

May 31, 2020 21:39

In your case, maybe try lowering the preview quality to Normal as that should let PD update the overlaid maps and masks more quickly. You can increase the preview resolution whenever you need to see clear details in any specific areas.

Shadow files are low resolution versions of source clips that PD creates to make working with them on the timeline easier. When you produce, PD automatically uses the full resolution clips so you get full quality, however shadow files are only used for video, and PD won't use them for static images no matter how big their pixel resolution or file sizes get.

You could manually create smaller (less detailed) versions of your maps using a free 3rd party image editor like IrfanView or Paint.net. If you set the compression to maximum, you won't change the pixel dimensions but will reduce the file size and amount of detail in each map image which may help speed up PD's timeline.

If those work, you'll need to manually swap out the low-res images with the full resolution ones. As long as you give them the same file names and keep them in separate folders, you'll be able to overwrite the low res versions when you're done editing and PD will then load and use the full resolution versions when you open the project again to produce.

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_Angus_

Senior Member Joined: Feb 19, 2011 19:59 Messages: 180 Offline

Jun 01, 2020 06:20

Quote In your case, maybe try lowering the preview quality to Normal as that should let PD update the overlaid maps and masks more quickly. You can increase the preview resolution whenever you need to see clear details in any specific areas.

Many thanks. That makes a lot of sense. I appreciate your time.