Speed Edit becoming Slower and Slower

[TheMinnesotaGuy]

Friday the 14th of August
Why is it when I am in Storybook and working on arranging my DVE's that it takes so long for the computer to make a move. I wait and wait and finally I can do something. It is constantly thinking when I move DVE's around and it takes about 2-3 minutes per move. What am I doing wrong??? I have drefraged the drive, I have cleaned up missing files and cleaned up deleted files. Someone help me!! Thanks
Jim

Saturday the 15th of August
This has also been happening in my timeline over the course of the last week. Getting slower and slower.
My computer was just updated about 18 months ago. So I am assuming that everything should be fine. I thought that it was something that was building up on my drives or something causing it to become slower.
This also is happening when using the timeline. Things have all just slowed down!!
Thanks
Jim

[animlab]

SpeedEdit is suffered with the problem of low refresh rate of small icons. That might happen in storyboard and timeline when clips are more than 50 or 100. The issues is cause by the method that SE handle the icons or the low redraw issues of Windows and VGA card are uncleared.
You can avoid using/display storyboard and trun icons on timeline to speed up the edit actions.

Another possible is caused by undo stacks when your edit project are growing too big (> 1MB). For most case, the edit project file size are in few KB. If you are cloning many subprojects and/or razor the subprojects many times, the project size will grow up fast due to each subject cuts are a copy of saveral clips. That will result that undo system to copy huge project file on every edit moves.
You can trun off the undo stack as a work around.

[Mutley Eugenius]

I would even go one step further and do 2 housecleaning steps which worked for me a couple of times to speed things up.

Newtek Editing software saves every single change you make (which is a total blessing when you haven't saved anything for 3 days) in a directory.

If you search your hard drive for any file with UndoRedo in the filename, you might find several thousand files show up. If you have saved all the projects you have done in and if you don't care about the autosave files you can do a wholesale delete of these files and you will probably notice a significant increase in hard drive speed.

Also, in each directory you have visited with the Editor's filebin, you will find a hidden directory called 'Newtek Info'. This file contains all the moneyshots for the clips as little Jpegs, all the AudioPeak Graphic files, and all the transcoded audio Wav files that it extracts from files that it can't play back quickly. These all speed up the program's performance, but they too can get pretty overwhelming.

You can go through these directories and delete old big Wav files or you can delete the directories outright and the program will make them again anew the first time you go into the directory with the editor's filebrowser.

And yes, it is highly advisable to keep your projects farily small. If I was going to make a one hour video with several hundred clips and effects, I would probably do it in sections, with a render from each one imported into a compilation project for the final export. Unless you have a MONSTER system, the the more you have on the timeline, you're going to experience some slowdown.

Also, if you have sections of the project that are really complex, you can render them and import the renders to replace the sections, and copy/paste the sections out into a new project (or even just select and drag them into a filebin) so you can still edit & update them again later if you want to.