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Effects browser crashes app
Noticed after the update that if you do a lot of browsing using the effect browser – just skimming over various effects – it eventually crashes. May be RAM dependent (although I have 16GB), as it seems pretty consistent that you only get so far and then a crash occurs.
– Oliver
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I went 100% crash free until the upgrade and have experienced the same thing Oliver as well as a crash while CCing a clip, something that never happened before.
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I’ve removed some of the third-party plug-ins to see if the situation improves. Don’t know yet.
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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BTW – today the system is stable. No crashes. Last night I had removed the Coremelt Complete plug-ins, because I had experienced some of the crashes around those choices. May be unrelated, but no crashes now that they’ve been removed.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Oliver,
I had a brief discussion a couple of months ago with Simon Ubsdell in the Techniques forum about possible plug-in bloat. I tend to download anything that Simon or others at the Cow create and I’ve already found use for a number of them, but most of them just sit there in the Effects Browser.
He didn’t know at the time if having a ton of additional plug-ins would slow the start time of FCP X or even the program in general. This thread seems to imply that it could. The only crashes I’ve had recently were definitely connected to the real-time previews of effects. The worst offender in my case was the Gaussian Blur. Twice in one day, the preview brought up the spinning beach ball and I had to re-boot.
If plug-in bloat is a real issue like opening FCP X with too many Events and Projects, I wonder if someone can or will come up with a simple app like Event Manager to load and un-load plug-ins before you open FCP X. If nothing else, it would allow for easier troubleshooting.
Dave
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[Dave Gage] “He didn’t know at the time if having a ton of additional plug-ins would slow the start time of FCP X or even the program in general. This thread seems to imply that it could.”
An interesting question and worrying if it’s true. I can only report that I have a large number of templates sitting in my various Motion Templates folders, including not only everything I have made for myself and obviously the effects I have shared with others, but also the massive FXFactory set, and I have had no problems associated with the Effects library.
Maybe I have been lucky, but it’s possible there are particular sets of effects that are causing issues. I have heard a number of anecdotal accounts of issues with CoreMelt plug-ins which may or may not be actual issues.
I’m not at all sure that the sheer number of plug-ins is an issue in itself but obviously am keen to know if that is the case.
Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com
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