How do you handle enormous projects?

[Young-H._Lee]

One of my short films is 35 minutes long and my timeline is just huge, like 150+ tracks...needless to say it consumes massive amounts of memory and takes forever to load. How do you handle large projects? Does anyone here nest?

[Kholi]

Wtf I spotted a Young-H. Lee!

[dustino]

I can't speak to Vegas, but in FCP I create different sequences and edit them independent of one another. You can then string the individual sequences together in a final sequence.

[glenn chan]

It looks like you're answering your own question there!

You could have a .veg for each scene and then nest them all into a master .veg file. I find that Vegas is better than FCP at handling large projects, although 150+ tracks is a lot!!

[Young-H._Lee]

heheh kholi, i have been MIA

thanks glenn, I was thinkign of doing that but sometimes I might bring a few clips briefly into other scenes, so its useful to have it all together on one big timeline, however, the overhead is sometimes unmnageable so I think I will be nesting from now on!!

[donatello]

150 tracks !!!

how many video tracks do you have ?
how many audio ?

i usually go 3-6 hours of media in TL but with approx 4 - 8 video tracks ( with audio) till i get a locked picture .. then i may add another 8-16 audio FX tracks ...

[MisterCat]

I've always done the nested thing. Definitely makes things more manageable and it doesn't take forever just to load up the project.

[brent@deadworkers.com]

nesting and veg files are a great way to work with large projects. DWP is working on a project right now that will hopefully be feature length. But we have 80 hours of footage to go through, and 4 of us working on the project.

When we can save our bits and pieces into veg files and trade those amongst the different editing machines, we have a much higher production before we started doing that.

[HorseFilms]

I'm editing a five minute short right now and I'm still nesting scene by scene. I find it's just easier that way.