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FCPX and severe lag all of a sudden
Hi, so, I have been experiencing an irritating amount of small lag all the time, but that is a post for another thread. All of a sudden though I am getting the beach ball all the time and i am pretty screwed. The timeline only has 6 mins of stuff on it. It came when i did 3 x picture in picture using a plugin.
Any methods for releasing whatever the blockage may be?
Cheers, and apologies if this is too vague, ask questions and I shall answer if you need to know more.
Ta
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right, just to add: it is basically killing my machine. I just tried rendering something on it and aside from rendering at a pace more akin to a zimmer frame than even a push bike it made the rest of my mac grind to a halt. I am going to reboot again to see if that helps but for some reason FCPX is suddenly being a complete resource hog. Hmmm, I have no idea of how to get out of this and this is seriously crimping on a tight deadline as it is. Ah, the joys of software.
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Have you done any retiming? I’ve had this happen and my guess was the optical flow analysis files corrupted, trashing them and the render files sped things up again.
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[Julian Bowman] ” It came when i did 3 x picture in picture using a plugin.”
A stock plug in? Or a 3rd party? I’d try getting rid of the plug in if you can…
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How much RAM are you running in your machine.
FCP X loves RAM!
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32 gigs as it goes.
In the end I managed to create a new sequence, copy the bit that was freaking it out and delete the transition causing the issue. The issue (I believe) was a transition which moved the images off/on screen along the horizontal. I have used it elsewhere but by mistake I placed three on three stacked clips instead of three of a lights transition and it freaked the hell out of FCPX. Doing this is 7 never did so i’m guessing still a tad more work to do on FCPX.
Lost about 6 hours trying to get to the point of being able to continue, which was frustrating as hell. Everytime I would open up the timeline it would be fine until i did something such as trying to delete the transitions when it would suck up all the ram and bring the mac to a halt.
Anyway, done now.
Cheers for the help posters above though.
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