Thumbnail and rendering server survey and tost

First question. Can the themes in iDVD be used in Toast 9 Titanium because what takes iDVD over 2 hours, took toast only 20 minutes? Which brings me to the survey question. Would the users of iDVD please post whether or not you are having the issue of the thumbnail and render servers not responding and extremely slowing the process down. It takes me over 2 hours to create a 20 minute DVD that was exported fron FCE 4 using export to QT.

What I have are two versions of the same video. One version has a split audio track, vocals on the right and music on the left. This is so, while the video is projected and the music is playing, we can turn down the vocals for the live chior performance. The other has the full track for home viewing. But the rendering times were for the same version. I went back and edited out a transition and corrected a spelling error.
But what you are saying is that 1.5 hours is not slow considering my recources?
If so then it is what it is. Why does it take a third of the time to produce the same video in Toast using the same FCE.mov? Could it be the fancy menu in iDVD? After 35minutes it is still processing the menu. I will change the menu for the performance video and see what happens.

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Resizing RAW thumbnail and preview

No one in Adobe technical support seems to be able to help me.
I've updated CS2 to CS5, and in Bridge, am unable to increase the thumbnail and preview size of .CR2 images. JPEGS, PDF, PSDs... they all resize fine. And before you ask... yes I know about the slider at the bottom. And yes I have tried all the 'cache' options.
I have also tried to create a new login with administrator rights (at the request of tech support) and it still has the same issue.
I have also reinstalled CS5 once as well.
Any suggestions? Pretty please?

Thanks for reporting back, still some questions.
Did you search for hidden cache files other than the before named cache
files?
Here or some of my thoughts about your attempts:
>> Purged the cache Bridge CS5
Have you already tried to delete the complete cache folder manually from the
user library cache/adobe/adobe Bridge CS5 location? After restart Bridge
creates a fresh, new but completely empty cache file and you need to recache
your thumbs and previews.
>> Deleted the Bridge preferences.
By this you mean the plist file from user library and combined with
restarting Bridge holding down option key and choose reset preferences?
>> Re-created the SwitchBoard preferences files.
Could you explain how? To my knowledge Switchboard resides at root level on
your system and serves Adobe Air that is also used by Bridge as part of the
CS suite. But I'm not aware of an option to recreate the preferences?
>> Updated all software including Camera Raw Plug-in and Bridge and Photoshop
That should do but for security check if you have only one version active
(in PS Menu Photoshop about plug ins - Camera Raw, it should say 6.3.0.79)
>> Created new user
Most efficient to rule out user specific problems, which brings me to the
question if you have the default application folder as place for installed
CS applications?
>> Reset all work space
It was a wild guess...
>> Deleted and reinstalled CS5 twice now
That is time spoiled if you did not use the Adobe Clean tool also to get rid
of all preferences. See this article also with the download of the clean
tool itself.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cs5clean.html
I just can't understand why it is only RAW images. All other formats are fine.
It is odd.
Might narrow it down on the raw converter?
Any other suggestions?
Personally I would start from Scratch. First read about the Clean Tool and
be sure to back up all your customized settings, actions tools etc in all
CS5 applications. Use the save option as much as possible for these settings
you want to keep and give the files a proper name and new folder so you can
import them again in an easy way.
Deactivate the software and use the uninstaller that can be found in the
separate Suite applications in the application folder. Then use the clean
tool and then use a search like spotlight (but preferable the free or almost
free Easy Find that also finds hidden files) to check on all other Adobe
files that reside on your system and decide if you trash them or place them
in a separate folder outside the library.
Don't forget to delete the hidden cache files for Bridge. You will need some
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gulp ... jumps right in with both feet ...
I think you were taught wrong.
this is not the official path as laid down by the gods of fcp
conventional wisdom suggest that you should set your scratch disk location once and then let fcp organise everything else.
re your questions:
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2. some do, some don't ... tiny files w. very low overhead, location shouldn't be a factor in the problem you noted

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My hard drive crashed recently and we took it to apple to get repaired. The apple employees said that they would have to replace the hard drive but they didn't have the equipment to get the data off my hard drive. So I took it to a computer store who had the right equipment after a month and a half of waiting they finally got all the data off my hard drive and put it on an external hard drive (Seagate Expansion Portable Drive). I then took it back to apple who replaced the hard drive. Now I'm in the process of reinstalling everything. I have never done a Time Machine back up or backed my laptop up to . Which I now will do very often once I've reinstalled everything. I have reinstalled all of my desktop images and folders as well as my iTunes library with no issues. However when i went to reinstall my iPhoto library it came up blank. I then Rebuilt the library several times and this was the result.
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iPhoto cannot find the thumbnails or the original pictures.
Go to your iPhoto Library in the Pictures Folder.
Right-click on it and from the resulting menu, choose 'Show Package Contents'.
This will bring you inside the iPhoto Library package. There you should see a Folder called Masters. Within that, there should be folder containing your actual photos.
Are they there?

IPhoto 11 9.3 I click on a thumbnail and the screen is black or has a triangle with exclamation mark inside of it

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Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
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Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one. .
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Is it possible to exclude thumbnails and previews from a vault?

I think in Aperture 1.5, vaults did not include any preview or thumbnail files, but only the files containing metadata, adjustments etc. (and the masters, unless referenced only)
Somewhere along the way to 3.0 this changed so now previews and thumbnails are backed up each time you update your vault.
This has two BIG drawbacks:
- the vault becomes much larger than necessary (I always generate large previews)
- the update process takes much longer as more files need to be copied.
On the other hand, I do not see any tangible benefit of including the extra files - provided I back up both masters and the adjustments, I should be able to regenerate thumbnails and previews after a restore following, say, a fatal hard drive error.
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My general response is: external drives are cheap. Buy what you need and don't spend any time trying to "save" disk space. IME, the administrative overhead is far more costly than the upfront equipment costs.
Here are some specific answers (as I understand how Apeture uses Vaults).
There is no way to exclude Previews from Vaults. Each Vault includes all extant Previews.
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You can test your hypothesis. Delete all your Previews, and create a new Vault. Let us know what you find out.
Suggestions for enhancements should be made directly to Apple via "Aperture→Provide Aperture Feedback". The forum is -- officially -- strictly for user-to-user interaction.

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