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  • FCPX and severe lag all of a sudden

    Posted by Julian Bowman on March 14, 2013 at 6:29 pm

    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

    Julian Bowman replied 13 years, 1 month ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Julian Bowman

    March 14, 2013 at 6:37 pm

    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.

  • Loren Risker

    March 14, 2013 at 7:01 pm

    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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  • Charlie Austin

    March 14, 2013 at 7:09 pm

    [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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  • David Battistella

    March 17, 2013 at 5:15 pm

    How much RAM are you running in your machine.

    FCP X loves RAM!

    David

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  • Julian Bowman

    March 18, 2013 at 10:38 am

    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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