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Color Wheel Uon Saving
Hello Everyone. I have this issue with Both FCPX and Motion. I record long shows … about 2 – 3 hours long and export smaller segments of it… around 2-3 minutes each using In and Out points. The first few go great… as soon as I push Command E… it brings up the Pop Up and i type in the name and boom… exports. But the more that I do… the longer it takes in between me pushing Command E and the Pop Up coming up for me to typw the name. It just takes longer and longer the more I do. The only fix is for me to restart FCPX. Then it goes immediately at first…. then into the same lagging problem. Anyone else have this happening to them? If so.. is there a fix besides having to restart? Thank you for any help you give me. 🙂
#colorwheelkillsme.
MAC Studio Ultra
Full Blown
OSX 12.6.1
FCPX 12.6.5
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Are you waiting for each segment to finish before exporting the next, or are you slammin’ and jammin’ all of them quickly so that they stack up in a render queue?
Are you using external drive or internal – if external, what kind and which interface?
EDIT: asked for specs, then saw them in the original post. Whoops!
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Long time FCP (since v1.25) and FCPX user here.
Last year I did a project in DaVinci Resolve – a music performance, and the
client requested a separate clip for each song. It was VERY easy to output all those clips
using Resolve. And yes, it did take a long time to find the beginning and ending of each clip.
I am surprised that FCPX is taking so long after the first couple of clips. I would take a different file and attempt to do the same thing on 5 clips and see if the experience is any different.
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Be sure background rendering is turned off (there’s never a reason to turn it on).
How much drive space do you have free? What drive are you saving to?
I’d turn off background rendering, delete all the render files for that Library, restart FCP holding Cmd-Opt do delete pref files. Then go to work, see if that helps. If it doesn’t, there’s a system limitation.
FCPX only exports one file at a time, so the queue doesn’t slow anything down, it’s just a queue, it does zero work. But it does seem that FCP is eating up memory somewhere. I export in a similar fashion but I am exporting compound clips. I compound every musical performance separately, work on compounds, then throw them together in a final Project when they’re all locked down. That way I’m just exporting whole timelines, easy to keep track of, self contained, fast, easy. Just my personal preference. Not sure it would help with multiple exports. But I’m running on an iMac Pro, and I’m not having slow down issues. I don’t think I ever did, not this bad. I’d be looking at hardware bottleneck, or get a copy of FCP Library Manager and keep all your Libraries cleaned up and tidy, maybe? I dunno, I use it, I like it.
https://www.arcticwhiteness.com/finalcutlibrarymanager/
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