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SLUGGISH TRIMMING! HELP!
I am experiencing a serious problem. Whenever I try to trim using the ripple-roll tools, my Mac takes several seconds for each step of the procedure. When I click a clip edge to drag it, I get the spinning ball for a few seconds before I can actually start dragging. When I drag it I get the spinning ball before I find out how many frames I have moved the edit. When I want to finetune before letting go of the mouse, I have to wait again before it moves where I want it to.
Some other functions are also slow, but this is where I suffer most from it.
This sluggish behaviour has never happened before in over two years. I have a DP1GHz G4, 1.5 GB RAM, both FW and IDE RAID harddrives, FCP4.5, OSX10.3.4.
This is a project in DV. The only special thing about it is that it has about 8 hours of footage captured in large chunks of 10-30 minutes in length, and that the timeline is 20 minutes long. But this is surely not extreme in any way?
If anyone has suggestions on how to solve this I would be very happy. Right now I am suffering so much from this that I am thinking of moving over to Avid Xpress Pro instead. I hate its use of effects and a lot of things would be harder to do, but editing on it is lightning fast and stable. Which is the most important thing, right?/ Bjorn in Sweden
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5 Replies
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Hi Bjorn,
sorry to hear you’re struggling. 4.5 does seem to slow down as projects get bigger and digitising shorter clips probably would help. However a couple of things to try – turn off dupe frame detection if you’ve got it on.
– save a copy of your project and delete all the older versions of your sequences so that you’re just working on the current one.
OR
-create a new project and drag your current sequence into it along with anything else you might need (rushes etc.) but bear in mind this breaks the link to clips in the bins so you won’t be able to use the ‘find clip in bin’ command.Close the old version of the project.
That will probably speed things up.
FWIW I edited on AVID for 10 years then moved to Final Cut and have recently had to go back to doing AVID editing, even allowing for the sluggish timeline I still think it’s faster to edit on FCP.Good luck,
Rob. -
Are you viewing waveforms in the sequence? That can slow things down…how about clip thumbnails in the sequence? That slows things down too!
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media -
I think you should be running in 10.3.8 or .9… and a clean install of the OS might make a big difference. Your sequence doesn’t sound that complicated so it should be trimming very fast.
Jerry
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Thanks guys. Good suggestions. I’ll try them as soon as I can find the time to update the system etc. I thought these things might do the trick, you confirmed it for me.
Now all that remains is to see if it works… 🙂/ Bjorn in Sweden
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Hello Bjorn,
deleting FinalCut preferences & POA cache (usually – not always) fixes this problem.
Don’t know why but FCP sometimes looses its mind.
FCPrescue will help you doing it. It’s free to download at
https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/Good luck
Uwe
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