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Hi all, 

I'm running into an issue I can't solve. I have a small and seemingly simple package (mostly lowers) that's running really heavy on 8.5 4574. Only in this package, it's slow to navigate the sequencer and when taking on and offline, it can be slow, stutter or max the performance bar well over 300%.


Off my head, only things I can think of are the video backgrounds were originally eported as 24fps but im in 29, or the mask I have on each scene. To me, neither of those should cause the level of problems I seem to be having. Anyone have any thoughts as to what it might be?

Here's the package if anyone has time to take a peek, TIA!

But off the top of my head right away, if the videos are 24fps, that means that you did not convert them to the Xpression codec before you played them out.  So that very well could be causing it.  I would also ask, are the videos sized for the area they are being played in or are they still full resolution?  So if you say it is mainly lowers, I would think your pixels would be under 300x300 for the videos.  Do not use up a full resolution video if it is not going to play out that big. - I would look at performance before any graphic is online.  Ideally you should have 0%, but if that is already going up then some process is going on in the background that you need to deal with first.

I did run them through the codec, but they are full frame exports for just the lowers. I will try smaller versions. Thanks

Your package is using at least one MP4 file as a background, so not everything has been run through the video coder.

The file is Tweets_BGD_3.mp4.

Also, your project itself is build at 23.976 PSF format, not 1080i 29.97.

If you open the Tools->debug->video cache and play back your scenes you will see what videos they are using and how quickly (or slowly in your case) they are being decoded.

Thanks for taking a look Brian, I'll look at the project again. 

Did you ever solve your issue?