At 6:23 PM -0800 11/8/2002, Illovox Media wrote: >By what TT and DW call optimization, they are referring to defragging, and I >can personally vouch that after a year of no optimization, trashing a gig of >sound files took 20 minutes. After optimization, one minute. I don't know >about benchmarks, but as far as I'm concerned, that kind of time savings is >useful. And in I don't know many uses of defrag procedures, I've never >corrupted data. This procedure also markedly improves FCP responsiveness >and stops frame drops and other artifacts from wrecking a render, let alone >an MP3 burn.
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