(If only you can find that one clip you recall seeing.)įor this article, we’ll focus on a hypothetical visual project, like a music video, commercial, or promo. You save a lot of time at the beginning, but you’ll also be going back to the source footage over and over again, skimming through the junk repeatedly as you look for those little gems that would fit perfectly in your rough cut.
Image credit: MZedĪlternatively, you could skip the preparation process altogether, and choose to dive right into editing the story. It’s sort of like mixing all your paints in advance, creating the perfect palette, and then diving into a purely artistic state of creation. That way, when it comes to laying down your edit, your creative juices can flow unencumbered. Prep workįor example, you could choose to exert a lot of effort at the beginning of the workflow, by organizing and categorizing your media, filtering out your highlights or selects, and ensuring that all your clips are prepared. And in some ways, the clip organization workflow will have a major impact on the rest of your edit, how much time it takes, and whether the process is enjoyable or frustrating. But before you can get the show on the road, you will first have to start with your media or file organization process. Which approach suits you the best?Īs you embark on a video editing project, you are at the beginning of a long journey of editing decisions. Here are five different styles of workflows that you can use in any NLE. Version 3 of MC is noticably faster and more efficient than Version 2.Media management and organizing footage are essential to video editing. I would definitely recommend upgrading to 3.5. Of course you could simply not have enough of a computer to do what you need to do.
My suspicions are that either you running processes you are unaware of that are chewing up large amounts of memory or your Windows virtual memory settings are set too low or sub optimally.
Also check what Avid says memory usage is by going to the Project Window, choosing the Info tab and pressing the Memory button. Keep the Task Manager open to the Processes tab while using MC and AvidFX and see how much memory is being used and for what. To do this best I need to enough VM on any one disk. Now some smarty pants can say, why do you have more available memory than Windows can use? B/c I have virtual memory setup on multiple disks, XP can choose which disk is best for caching.
I have 2 Gig of RAM plus roughly 5 Gig of disk space set aside on multiple drives for Virtual Memory, a.k.a. This includes both RAM and Virtual Memory added together. The next number is the total amount of available memory on your system. That means that 0.226 gig of RAM is being used by XP and all running programs (I do not have MC open). The first number is how much memory is currently being used to run everything. Look at the bottom of the Task Manager and notice the values where it says Commit Charge. This will sort every process your computer is running according to its memory usage. Now, click on the Processes tab and click on the Mem Usage column heading all the way to the right. Click on the Performance tab and look at the value for Physical Memory (K) Total. The very first thing you should do is open Window's Task Manager (right click on the XP taskbar at the bottom of your primary monitor and you'll see the choice). In my land a 4GB kit of 2x2GB RAM is about € 70.-, if you have a nice computer-shop at the corner you could even test it and bring them back, if it doesn't solve your problem.
Please correct me if I get something wrong. With 4GB RAM installed, 3,25GB will be recognized by the system leaving about 550MB RAM to the system itself. With "only" 3GB of RAM, if you apply the 3GB switch with a value of 2700 then there will only be a remainder of ~300MB RAM for the system left, or am I wrong? This can lead to problems, I guess. Mem-usage went up to 89 - 93%, I got warnings, restarted MC (v3.1, if I remember correct), was back at about 20% mem-usage (~50 min. Sometimes in the past I got those errors when moving many tracks by making subclips (ctrl+alt+x -> ctrl+alt+v) several times.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough in the beginning: on my current and private system I've never had memory-issues, although I run WinXP 32bit with 4GB of RAM WITH the 3GB patch applied.
The solution to make it render the clip was easy, just to turn off the machine and remove 2 gigs of mem.