Hi, Gang.
I've been a user of AA since ver. 1.5. There are still a lot I would like to see in the form of feature additions, and I have had nothing but good things to say about the program (having been a ProTools user since the dawn of daws) until recently.
Lately, I've been experiencing a lot of sluggish behavior with the program, and I am posting this to make sure that it's not on my end. Here are the symptoms...please let me know if any of you can think of a direction to explore.
(All of this started with the last update to CC 2014 - cannot say when that was, but within the last week to 10 days)
1. when moving multiple clips of audio on a track in time or from track to track, after releasing the mouse button, an hourglass appears, and it takes MINUTES for the cursor to return, to be able to perform the next command.
a. while this is happening, if I go to Task Manager to investigate what's happening, the "memory (private working set)" column is starting to creep up in RAM usage. When the creeping stops, the cursor returns - it got up to 20GB today (out of 32GB).
b. further evidence of something being wrong - after EVERY command instruction, it takes at least a second for the action to be performed; this can be seen when the History window is open while performing commands.
2. Video Playback Issues:
a. I've now started to experience the video window goes black (while in Multitrack mode) if I just returned from Waveform mode. The only way to get it to work again is to (1) rt-clk on video window ans set 100% Scaling then (2) rt-clk on video and set Best Fit scaling.
It will continue to work until I go to Waveform mode, upon my return to Multitrack mode, I have to "reset the scaling" again.
b. Video playback is stuttering, sometime taking 10 seconds to play normally [I have audio/video playing off of my 550+MB/sec internal RAID-0 array, 65% capacity]
3. Random Crashing - session only contains 16 tracks and 6 busses <--- Solved this with uninstalling CC 2014, reinstalling 2014 and NOT importing CC preferences (the issues above still remain).
a. when switching to Waveform mode from Multi mode, CRASH
b. importing from OMF, every 5th import, CRASH
If anyone has any insight, please let me know.
Thanks,
-CS
[AMD AM3 FX-8350 (8x4GHz), 32GB 1600MHz RAM, 120GB SSD system, 3TB Program/Data, 8TB A/V drive (4x2TB Seagate Barracuda SATAIII) Internal RAID-0 array]
