Re: FCP X media management solutions?

[Michael Hadley] "Any one with some real computer chops care to comment?"

There is some system overhead involved with interacting with a mounted disk image. Disk images are treated by the OS as any other mount, but they are still subject to the physical I/O limitations of the storage they are sitting on, which might also have other I/O going on.

In your case, you were multiplying that effect by calling multiple streams of media from a virtual disk and probably also trying to write back to the same physical disk (I'm assuming your Project storage is either on the same disk image or the same physical HDD). If you have a fast RAID or SSD, that might be able to overcome the bottleneck by brute force, but if you were doing that from a single HDD, the bottleneck could be pretty acute.

Best,
Andy