> We're interested to know what is going on here as well. We've actually inflicted damage to our san drives by rendering a reel of tiff files (around 30,000 to a folder) for a feature in preparation for a DCP. The

 

That’s a serious bug. I DCP creation work for features and this is not an issue on NTFS drives. I’ve routinely had folders of 16 and 32-bit TIFFs with 50,000 to 150,000 image sequence as never had an issue. I bring those into AE and render J2K, also in single folders and no issues. It introduces a little lag but not unexpected and normally don’t have thumbnail view on for those folders. Putting sequences in sub-folders is a huge pain.

 

I wonder how NTFS drives would behave under MacOS with a driver for this situation.

 

stephen van vuuren

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