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[psmallri]

I have a huge (for Roxio it seems) production , that take ages to open (ten minutes) in Videowave, is there any way to stop it loading as I sometimes indavertently open incorrect productions or is the only way to kill the process ? And before anyone suggests the speed of loading is imapacted by the hardware, I have a top spec quad processor and things still take ages to load/open or save. What exactly does Roxio do for five minutes after it saves a production of any sort, on my PC it sits there taking a whole CPU seemingly doing nothing, no disk IO , no network activity, just CPU time.

Roxio is and always has been very very poor at telling you what it's doing, maybe one day the bods at Roxio will look at the product from a Users perspective.

[sknis]

psmallri, on 29 November 2011 - 12:10 AM, said:

I have a huge (for Roxio it seems) production , that take ages to open (ten minutes) in Videowave, is there any way to stop it loading as I sometimes indavertently open incorrect productions or is the only way to kill the process ? And before anyone suggests the speed of loading is imapacted by the hardware, I have a top spec quad processor and things still take ages to load/open or save. What exactly does Roxio do for five minutes after it saves a production of any sort, on my PC it sits there taking a whole CPU seemingly doing nothing, no disk IO , no network activity, just CPU time.

Roxio is and always has been very very poor at telling you what it's doing, maybe one day the bods at Roxio will look at the product from a Users perspective.

You realize of course that the production is just a roadmap to all of the resources that you have added to the production along with all the edits you have made.   My guess is that whne you open that production, it is looking for every resource - image, video, audio file and then applying the edits.  

Are you storing all your resources in one folder on your system hard drive or are you using an external USB connected storage.  Creating a folder for the project  may be a way of shortening the time to open.   Also, after you have done a "lot" of editing, periodically clear the proxy files.  Go to the top menu, select tools, options and yiou will see the command to clear the files.  Normally they are cleared when you shiut down and reboot but perhaps you don't do that often.
Don't forget to defrag frequently since some of those resources are probably in several fragmented sections of the hard drive.
As to opening the wrong production -- consider a better naming scheme.     

Yep, the program does not  take the time away from opening a production to tell you how far it has gone in opening the production.

Edited by sknis, 29 November 2011 - 05:56 AM.