Anyone notice 12.81 takes twice as long to load big sessions?

[Gordon Hookailo]

Hello great minds out there...

I've just updated to Sierra and everything is way snappier than Yosemite if I stay on PTs 12.61. On 12.81 it takes about twice as long to load big sessions.

Has anyone else noticed this and or might there be a fix coming down the line? 12.81 seems stable other than that.

Thanks in advance for any observations.

Mac Pro 5,1 12 core 3.33Ghz 32 Gigs RAM, 2 Samsung 500 Gig SSDs, internal 4TB Raid, Core audio using Motu Ultralite mk3. Eucon 3.6 S3 PTs Dock, PTs HD 12.61 and 12.81

[Macsearcher]

Load times are significantly longer for me as well.

[jarekb]

same here...
PT HD on HDX 12.8.1

[xylie6]

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[albee1952]

Me too on Windows....

[Gordon Hookailo]

Update on loading times and GUI screen updates:

Now on 12.82 HDN and am seeing the same long session loading times as 12.81. Also seeing in both 81 / 82 lags on GUI screen updates (edit / mix).

I mix all day and rely on edit screen scrolling to know what is coming up. The problem is causing headaches because the scrolling is no longer smooth. In fact the timecode counter and everything else stutters like it used to on older versions.

I love that they fixed some bugs and added some nice new features but until fixed, I can't see using anything other than 12.61 for regular 5.1 LtRt mixing.

Does anyone else find the extra load times and GUI slow down a deal breaker for them?

I hope Avid will seriously look into this issue. It feels like the system is polling for new items on session loads and also polling for something I'm not using when mixing.

Thanks in advance for any feedback!

Mac Pro 5,1 12 core 3.33Ghz 32 Gigs RAM, 2 Samsung 500 Gig SSDs, internal 4TB Raid, Core audio using Motu Ultralite mk3. Eucon 3.7 S3 PTs Dock, PTs HD Native 12.61 and 12.82

[Cheesehead]

I've noticed this slowdown in loading big sessions here on 12.8.2 and Sierra.
No GUI lag apart from when trimming occasionally.
I turned off overlap shadows and transparency, they caused me a lot of problems and I don't really need them.

I find that with big film sessions if you make a 'find' selection in the region list to reduce the number of visible regions and then save the session in that state, when you open it again it can be up to twice as fast. Surely a good case for the 'folders in the region list' request which has been asked for since the late bronze age.

I also found sessions with a large number of video regions are much slower to load.

[Macsearcher]

Confirmed GUI lag here.
12.8.2
PT HD native
Sierra

[Rockman413]

Originally Posted by Cheesehead

I've noticed this slowdown in loading big sessions here on 12.8.2 and Sierra.
No GUI lag apart from when trimming occasionally.
I turned off overlap shadows and transparency, they caused me a lot of problems and I don't really need them.

Where is the button to turn off overlap shadows and transparency?

[Cheesehead]

W

Where is the button to turn off overlap shadows and transparency?

I'm not in front of PT but I think its the view menu under regions.