• Apple Final Cut Pro

  Very slow going with subtitles – workflow suggestions?

  Posted by Myra Margolin on September 2, 2012 at 7:52 am

  Hi All

  I am editing several interviews in a language which I don’t speak. Therefore, I subtitled all of the interviews before going through the footage, choosing clips, setting keywords, etc… I created compound clips for each subtitled interview (I couldn’t figure out a way to set keywords without creating compound clips that included the subtitles). Now, when I try to bring a selection into a project, it is crazy slow. Actually, in general, everything is crazy slow. Lots of beach balls and I often end up force quitting.

  FCPX is using all of my RAM with page outs up to 14GB. If I just open the program and do nothing, it maxes out my RAM and I get about 5GB page outs – having touched nothing.

  This is my first foray into FCPX so it is quite possible that I have set up an inefficient workflow…

  My specs:
  I’m working on a new MacBook Pro (bought 3 months ago) running Mountain Lion: QudaCore 2.4 GHz IntelCore i7, 8 GB RAM. Working off of proxy media on a 7200 rpm 2TB G-Drive using Firewire 800. I’m running FCPX 10.0.4.

  I have to work off of a laptop as I am in rural India for this project and need portability (and have no access to a desktop computer here). Also, for what it’s worth, I can’t hook that laptop up to the internet while I’m here – very limited internet access.

  So, my question is: Is there a more efficient workflow for working with subtitles on a machine with 8 GB RAM?

  Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks much in advance,
  Myra

  David Battistella replied 13 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  James Bayliss-smith

  October 1, 2012 at 5:46 am

  Update to 10.0.5 may help the beach balls. Also avoid creating compound clips inside other compound clips I’ve heard that this can slow the program down,

  All the best,

  James
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  David Battistella

  October 1, 2012 at 7:43 am

  How long is the timeline?

  Can it be broken up into 20 minute reels?

  The bigger the timeline the more Media objects you are asking FCP X to track, hence MORE RAM needed.

  The upgrade to 10.05 is also a good idea.

  David

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