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10.0.4 performance much worse for me… bummer.
I’m working on a pretty high-powered tower with 16G of RAM… I was just getting into a groove for the past week with 10.0.3, using a second Cinema display as a second monitor, with very smooth playback 98% of the time. Occasionally it would get choppy, but I was starting to really like FCPX in general.
Now, same project, very poor playback and GUI performance… once choppy playback starts, it won’t go away. The whole app feels more sluggish on common interface moves, clicking on stuff, moving from panel to panel, etc.
Granted, the material is from three different semi-crappy camera-phone sources, but because I have put it all in a 1080p ProRes timeline, absolutely everything is rendered. And this is a very small event & project, maybe 4 hours of footage, my cut is about 15 minutes long.
Tried trashing prefs, copying and pasting everything from current project into a fresh new project so it can re-render, but nothing seems to have helped.
Of course, lots of extenuating circumstances… working off XSAN, machine still on 10.6.8, etc. etc… All I know is yesterday it worked bascially fine, today it kind of *****. Oh well… trudging forward.
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For me it is very responsive with big projects now.
I have an event with 5500 clips right now on my hard drive which I used recently on my Macbook. It worked (Macbook 2011, 16GB RAM), but it ways´t too happy in the event. Editing worked, but switching keyword-selections wash´t snappy at all. On my MacPro this was not so much an issue.
In 10.0.4 I can go through the KeywordSelections just as I can with aonly a few clips. The database is definitely cleaned up and selecting and skimming clips is a breeze even with thousands of items.
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There are definite speed improvements from this new version. Large projects are MUCH snappier and more responsive. Overall, the whole app is a lot more responsive. I’m not sure why yours is slower. What machine are you running it from? Maybe upgrade to Lion?
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[Joshua Pearson] “I’m working on a pretty high-powered tower with 16G of RAM… I was just getting into a groove for the past week with 10.0.3, using a second Cinema display as a second monitor, with very smooth playback 98% of the time. Occasionally it would get choppy, but I was starting to really like FCPX in general.
“What video card do you have?
Steve Connor
“FCPX Professional”
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A crappy card, I’ve been told… only 512 megs VRAM… trying to swap it out soon…
Regardless of my hardware configuration, it is always a bummer to have software work fine for a bunch of time, then fail after an incremental update that is supposed to “improve” performance. Nothing else about the project has changed.
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[Joshua Pearson] “Regardless of my hardware configuration, it is always a bummer to have software work fine for a bunch of time, then fail after an incremental update that is supposed to “improve” performance. Nothing else about the project has changed.
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True, but most people, like myself are reporting considerably increased performance, so it’s worth looking to see if there are any common factors with the other people that are reporting problemsSteve Connor
“FCPX Professional”
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Joshua this is normal in this medium. It doesnt just stop with FCPX. We get this with almost every Adobe/Avid upgrade.
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Yes I know… I’ve been editing since 1988, first with tape, then with Premiere, then with Media 100, then with FCP v0 through 7… I’ve been at it a VERY long time, and yes you’d think I’d expect these things…but no matter how long I’ve been at it, its till ticks me off when it happens.
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FCP v0. Ahh the memories.
Do you have nay third party plugs? What about motion templates?
Jeremy
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I’m running 10.0.4 on a 2007 MacBook Pro with only 128MB of VRAM, and 4MB of RAM. And I’m seeing a great speed improvement over 10.0.3, especially in h264 footage playback.
My 2006 MacPro is also running 10.0.4. I think something else is up. You might want to give Apple a call and see if they can sort it out on the phone.
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T. Payton
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Odd. I’m on a 2009 8-core Mac Pro with a 5870 card. Not really seeing any speed improvements whatsoever. It was fine before, though. Of course, that doesn’t include the broken suite filters (Edge & MB Looks).
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com
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