The thumbnails take a while to come up in the deck I'm switching to, but the output carries on without any noticable pause, even when there are lots (20 columns) of clips in the decks.
I'm on XP Pro and this is one of the most urgent fixes - I use lots of clips across lots of decks and the drastic slowdown on deck changes is a real problem ... if I'm running at about 35-40 fps it's not uncommon to get a slowdown to less than 10 fps on changing decks. I have a 7200 rpm HD which is defragmented ...
Just done some more testing and I do get an FPS drop while switching decks.
Normally it's not enough to cause the output to noticably stall but when I have lots of layers, effects and so on in use it is noticable.
The number of clips in a deck does not affect the level of the drop but it does determine how long the drop is there for.
It is innevitable that loading a new deck will consume some computer resources but hopefully the guys can either make it more efficient or sort it out so that it is throttled so as not to affect the output to a point it is a problem (not sure about everyone else but for me, that point is 25fps) - I'd rather it take a few seconds more to load a new deck than for the FPS to drop below 25.
I get slowdowns to as slow as 3fps on many different operations, including changing decks. Sometimes I get slowdowns when I simply select a new clip to play. I am on windows vista x64.
Laptop: Intel Core 2cpu T7200 @2Ghz - 2Gig Ram
Operating system: Windows Vista Ultimate Sp1 X64
Video card: NVIDIA Gforce Go 7600
