Lagging on project with MANY files

cucumihai · Post by **cucumihai** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 1:15 pm

I have a project with many many files in it and AS8 is lagging, it happened before so i guess it's "normal".
I was wondering, is there an option to make AS use more ram or space on the drive so it won't lag?

jonbo · Post by **jonbo** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 1:22 pm

Try turning off the auto-save feature in the preferences menu. This can help somewhat with performance.

cucumihai · Post by **cucumihai** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 1:29 pm

Thank you, that helped a little.

jonbo · Post by **jonbo** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 1:38 pm

you can also go into the display quality and turn off the things that you don't really need to see in the workspace while you're editing like shape effects and smooth options.

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 1:38 pm

Yes, ASP lags terribly with large files, 8 got better, but still slow.

cucumihai · Post by **cucumihai** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 1:55 pm

jonbo wrote:you can also go into the display quality and turn off the things that you don't really need to see in the workspace while you're editing like shape effects and smooth options.

I did that but it wasn't a significantly change, it improved a little when i turn off the auto-save option.
I also turned the visibility off for some objects like backgrounds but i didn't notice any change.

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 2:07 pm

AS been slow since the introduction of v6, v5 was much much faster.

I think Mike made an effort to make as8 faster, seems faster to me at least!

cheyne · Post by **cheyne** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 4:01 pm

You could consider breaking up your files into scenes, if you have a longer animation, especially with a large amount of assets/characters. That way you could have only the necessary assets/characters in each file and edit them together afterwards in your video editing suite of choice.