Hi,

I'm working on a HDV project (1080i, 60fps) on Avid Xpress Pro 5.2.1. I've 3 hrs of rush material, and have edited it to a 30 mins timeline.

Everytime I apply a basic transition on a cut or try to put a subtitile, Avid is not playing it and throws the following error messaage:

Exception: Decomp Codec Thread: Wait for Decode Thread Timeout

In fact it throws the same message when I try to play any blank area in my sequence.

Please help.

My System Specs: Non Qualified Avid System.

AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core Processor 4200+  (2.21Ghz) with 2 GB System RAM and nVidia PCI Express Geforce 6200 with 256 MB Ram

When did this start.. right after you started the project or in the middle of it? Normally i would say that there is a corrupt file nagging up but as you are not clear on when this started i'll hold off until you can elaborate a bit more

Menno

thanks Baklap

Well it started pretty much in the middle of my project. I had around 40 hrs of rush initially, then after the rough assembly I transcoded and deleted the original media and only kept 2.5 hrs of it. The project became too heavy for my system.

I expected this problem would also go, but unfortunately it didn't.  So don't know what to do now.

Any help?