My two cents: - with 2GB RAM you may not need swap. I had 2GB RAM for 4 years and never used swap and Cinelerra was fine and not slow. I edited larger projects than yours and it all went well - and I used to do many things at the same time... it was ok, really;
- what could be slowing you down is the creation of the indexes files. when you have many files, you must reconfigure cinelerra's .bcast folder to be larger in size and to handle more than X files (I don't remember the original number now). Try it, see if it works - it's in the preferences or configuration menu (I'm not home now, so I don't have access to Cinelerra at the moment). good luck, flavio 2010/6/11 Frans de Boer <[email protected]> > On 06/11/2010 10:08 PM, Adam B wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I tried Cinelerra for the first time last night. I was generally very > > impressed by it's speed and responsiveness. I'd like to use Cinelerra > > to create a video of my vacation but I seem to be limited by RAM. I > > have about 10.5GB of 720x480 video spread across about 200 files. If > > I try to load all these files into the resources window I run out of > > RAM (after many minutes of swap thrashing). My system is Ubuntu 9.04 > > with 2GB ram and 1GB of swap. > > > > Any suggestions? Can Cinelerra be used for huge video projects? > > > > Thanks > > - Adam > Hi Adam, > > I hope you don't take offense, but 10.5GB is no huge but rather a very > small project. But as with all systems, if you use up to many system > resources, you run into some system boundaries. Now believe me, 2+1 GB > is not much but I have run projects having only 640MB + 1 GB swap. > Lately I have 8+8GB and things really fly now. > > The reason that Cinerella is crashing is maybe more a Cinderella > question then anything else. The CV version is relatively stable > compared to the original version, but it is still prone to crashes. I > even have a script to reset things after a crash because I need it many > times. > > So, just continue and sit back, don't move mouse or whatever and your > more likely to have the files included. > > Regards, Frans. > > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > [email protected] > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra >
