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Final Cut 6 has slowed to a crawl
A few days ago we moved all of our edit bays (G5s 4GB Ram) up to Final Cut 6 (from 5.0) and OS X 10.4.10. All of the machines were set up with the same image, but we’ve started to have a few that have begun to run really slowly. For example, the machine that I am on currently is taking 15 seconds just to add a marker in the sequence. Restarts, changing projects, brand new projects, all haven’t done anything to get it back to working speed. Has anyone else experiences a problem with Final Cut Pro 6 becoming very slow? Thanks for any help you can provide!
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Try fixing permissions on the system drive using Disk Utility. And, trash your prefs as well. Sometimes the old prefs hang around after an update and gum-up the works.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY
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Thanks for the suggestions David. Unfortunately we’ve tried both of these without any success in speeding up Final Cut Pro.
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When you installed FCS2 on your machines did you wipe your startup drives first, then re-install the OS? If not, then that may be a contributing factor. You may want to use a cache and log cleaning program like Cocktail to do this because it’s been proven that large operating system cache and log files really slow things down in FCP.
– Don
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We wiped the drives, did a fresh install of the OS and software and then ran all of the software updates.
The editors have been reporting that they are noticing their machines gets slow if they let it sit for a bit, then when they go back to edit, the machine seems to take a while to ‘wake up’
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We wiped the drives, did a fresh install of the OS and software and then ran all of the software updates.
The editors have been reporting that they are noticing their machines gets slow if they let it sit for a bit, then when they go back to edit, the machine seems to take a while to ‘wake up’
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Looks like on the reimage some of the machines had their energy savers set back to put the hard disks to sleep whenever possible.
Thanks to everyone for your help!
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That was going to be my next question once you stated that you did a clean wipe and install. The fact that some of your Macs were slow while others weren’t must mean that some of your people changed the “put hard drives to sleep whenever possible” default setting to “never”, while some didn’t.
Glad you got it sorted out.
– Don
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