Q: Import DREADFULLY SLOW after update.
Hey everyone... I kicked the tires around on 10.1 on one of my machines and loved all the changes. Took a little while to get used to, but now love how it's all set up. Figured I'd hit a snag eventually though and I think what I'm experiencing now is a major snag.
I'm trying to import AVCHD files, as usual, into an event. I always 'Optimize' media. In the past, before the update, 2 hours of footage would take about real-time to import. Maybe a little longer (3 hours tops). I'm trying to import about 20 minutes worth of footage now, and it's been at it for over four hours now. In fact, the vast majority of the footage are clips no longer than 15 seconds long. It's been working on a 13 second clip for the last 2 hours now. With about a 100 or so other clips left to import, I can only imagine how long this is going to take.
Can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong? I suspect there's a new way of importing that I'm completely missing. And yes, I have the 'prevent app nap' function checked (that was a major pain after the last update... but a non-issue now).
Any feedback about my issue would be appreciated.
I'm working on a 2.93 quad i7 with 8GB of Ram. Exporting the AVCHD files from an external drive directly onto my iMac's hard disk. I know, I know... a lot of you recommend not doing that. But I've been doing it for 12 years with no issues what-so-ever and although I use a variety of external solutions for editing longer projects, I like to use my computers storage from time to time for smaller projects (like this one). I suspect I'd have the same problem if I tried to import to an exernal drive anyway.
Posted on Jan 6, 2014 1:55 PM