• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Media Manager Slow to Copy

  Posted by Jamie Evans on January 20, 2011 at 11:07 pm

  I’ve read on the site that media manager is notoriously slow, especially if your sequences have lots of cuts and tracks. This seem logical to me.

  I’m media managing projects with just bins, no sequences, from an internal SATA to an external Firewire 800 drive. I tried to make it easy on the media manager so it’s just making straight copies. However, it’s copying the files at 250Mb/s, whereas a manual file copy using the finder transfers to the same drive at about 500Mb/s.

  For example, a 250GB project took two hours, yet by my calculations, on firewire 800 that should have taken an hour (40 mins theoretically). A 10.6GB copy from the finder, (same drives) took just 3 mins.

  I could manually copy all the clips, but I’m separating 350 clips into five separate projects from a single capture scratch folder with about 700 clips. So an automated solution is desirable.

  Is something wrong here or is FCP’s Media Manager just bad at copying files?

  
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  Jeff Greenberg replied 15 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Jeff Greenberg

  January 21, 2011 at 3:16 pm

  I’ll admit I’m speculating.

  I don’t know it’s ‘bad’ – I know that it’s got to run through FCP and then be processed.
  The finder doesn’t have to do any processing at all.

  Another area of speculation is Snow Leopard and the finder at 64 bit (I don’t know what version of the OS you’re on) and FCP being only 32 bit.

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  Jeff G

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