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Syncing big showfiles in a Multiconsole session

Hi.

Our typical showfile size stays <10MB. After adding a bunch of 1080p pngs for documentation purposes to a magic sheet, the showfile size quickly ballooned to over 100MB. We are running a Primary, Backup, and 1-2 Clients all over a 100 Mbps switch. 

I instantly noticed Showfile sync was taking significantly longer than usual (Around 20s). This in itself is not a problem since the backup still takes over almost instantly, without having to download the showfile. But when taking control back as the Primary, playback is paused for almost the entire duration of the showfile sync. 

I'm wondering how other venues with big showfiles and backup processors deal with this, or if you consider this a problem at all with higher bandwidth switches. Maybe it's just time to upgrade our switches :D 

Cheers. 

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    I would question if you need those images really in this quality and resolution...

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    That's a fair point. Right now, I am actually looking into image compression to try to get the file size down. In this show, the followspots are quite complex, which is why I'm carefully documenting them. Since we only have a FOH feed, which is quite far from the stage i'm pretty sure anything under 720p won't cut it. I guess with 720p images in JPEG/WebP showfile size should be under 30MB again.

    But to be honest, 100MB should be far from the biggest showfile around. I'm sure bigger venues easily run 100MB+ files. This is why I'm wondering if sync time is even a consideration for venues running Gigabit or maybe even 10Gig with the new Apex hardware. 

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  • 0 in reply to ueliriegg

    That's a fair point. Right now, I am actually looking into image compression to try to get the file size down. In this show, the followspots are quite complex, which is why I'm carefully documenting them. Since we only have a FOH feed, which is quite far from the stage i'm pretty sure anything under 720p won't cut it. I guess with 720p images in JPEG/WebP showfile size should be under 30MB again.

    But to be honest, 100MB should be far from the biggest showfile around. I'm sure bigger venues easily run 100MB+ files. This is why I'm wondering if sync time is even a consideration for venues running Gigabit or maybe even 10Gig with the new Apex hardware. 

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