Sometimes if I enter the text editor on a clip with no CFX, or move a clip with no CFX to a top track, Smoke will beachball and say Creating Connect FX before completing the task I ask of it. Why is this?
Thanks Grant. That actually gives me a better understanding of how Smoke effects architecture works. As far as the beachballing, this is an unfortunate problem that is pointing to the OS (Mavericks). Support is looking into it but what they found was that the OS was not allowing enough RAM to be assigned to Smoke, regardless of how you set it. Once a sequence gets longer than 20 minutes, the system slows down considerably and when you are in the 2 hour range, the system grinds to an unworkable halt. Very unfortunate since 70% of my work is longform finishing. That means that once I manage to slug through my current job, I'll need to hold off on Smoke and get my DS back up and running until this can be sorted out. In this state, it is an unuseable system :(((.
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