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FCP Becomes Slow after sometime
Hi
I would really appreciate if I get any some clue on this. I am a freelancer editor working at different places. At many places I have experienced working in fcp gets sluggish, slow after some time. And when you reboot it become normal but only fore some time. I have tried many things upgrading OS, RAM, Online updates, but could get to the bottom of problem
Regards
NitinOS 10.4,10.5 MacPro, G5, Decklink Extreme FCP 5.1.4, 6, 4GB RAM
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7 Replies
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Hi Nith,
i would recommend you a bit of system maintenance: repair permissions and rebuild directories (system Hd and media drives) with DisKwarrior, TechTools or so.
Cheers,
rafael(and here some clips for the friends: https://www.vimeo.com/2694745 )
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Hi
Your problem is caused by memory leakages of FCP. Besides restartiing ther is not much you can do about ik. Adding memory helps to a certain extend, as does quiting unneccessary programs that might run in the background. Because interframe codecs (like xdcam, avchd, eetc) tend to use more memory problems with those codecs are more severe.
On the other hand, it’s always good to take a break after a few hours editing, so why not go for a stroll while restarting your computer. (In the future with osx 10.5 , fcp 7, and a lot more memory to allocate the problem will not be noticed anymore, or maybe solved )
René A. Hazekamp
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Hi there,
your problem might aslo be your decklink card. This is a known unsolved problem with decklinks, it happened with my Decklink SP (and not with my AJA IO) and there is seemingly no way to fix other than to restart. There was talk about it on the Cow but over a year ago.
Sorry
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[Nick Price] “your problem might aslo be your decklink card. This is a known unsolved problem with decklinks”
Are you saying Decklink cards are a known source of memory leaks?
I would say I’ve seen this slowdown problem plenty with or without a card.
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The 90% of the problems (slow, hangs, etc) that we experiment when working with FC comes from a poor maintained system.
Make sure that your MacOSX is optimized before start digging in the RAM, video-card or whatever other possible source of problems.
Rafael -
hi
The 90% of the problems (slow, hangs, etc) that we experiment when working with FC comes from a poor maintained system.
I regularly maintained my system with disk utility and disk warrior; still facing the same problem. Is there any way to flush ram without restart?
This could surely RAM issue because adding more RAM although don’t solve the problem but extends the time gap.
As far as Decklink is concern, I have heard about it in past. Have any one tried latest driver for that. Dose it happen with all decklink boards?
Thanks for reply
Regards
Nitin -
I have had the same problem. Changing it into a Aja card fixed the problem. However, I only noticed the slowdowns on a Quad G5, not a macpro.
Anders
Xraid-Xserve-Xsan-Xeverything
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