Can sequence switching performance be improved?

[membrillo6]

One of my top wished-for features is for sequence switching to be made near-instantaneous. I have a keyboard shortcut to toggle sequences and I'm constantly switching back and forth between my selects sequence and my work sequence or my stringouts, and they're often hours long, meaning it takes multiple seconds of waiting for the switch. It really adds up to a sludgy experience over the course of a day. If there's any technical way it can be made instant, by preloading or something, even as an optional setting, that would make my LIFE.

I'm told that turning off waveforms and through edits and duplicate frames can make sequences load faster, but I haven't seen that much of a difference, and anyway I do need those things. Being in multicam greatly slows down switching, but I need to be in multicam a lot of the time too, so any solution needs to address that also.

Any adobe engineers lurking?

[Fergus H]

Many Adobe members lurking! 

Would you be willing to share with us a project file (or files) that display slow sequence switching performance? If so, you're welcome to email me directly at fhammond@adobe.com. 

Regards,

Fergus

[membrillo6]

I can't, but you can easily recreate the environment by making a timeline with 10 hours of 4 camera multicam prores LT 1080p footage, and another sequence with 1-3 hours of footage, and put hundreds of edit points in both, then try switching between them while in multicam mode. Try cutting, changing multicam angle, selecting, copying, switching timelines, pasting into the other timeline, and switching back into the original timeline. Over and over as quickly as possible. You'll feel the accumulation of sluggishness weighing down your process on even the fastest computer and storage