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Absurdly slow performance
I have a mid-2011 iMac with 8 gigs of ram. I know you’re supposed to have even more ram, but with that much FCPX used to be reasonably fast, even with a lot of 1080i events and projects loaded. Now, even with only one 720p event and project, I get the spinning ball at just about every command! Not a corrupted project or event issue because I’ve experimented with dumping events and projects and making new ones with different footage and performance is just as glacial. Hard drives have plenty of space, and other programs are not performing sluggishly.. Please help!
(Added later) It also very often just does not respond at all and I have to force quit.
(Added later) Now I have tried using it with no events or projects loaded at all, and it is still very slow to do even simple things like create a new event. -
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Hmm. Something is definitely bonkers there. Do you have any still images in the project? Jpegs? If they are over, I think, 4000 pixels on a side, FCPX will go nuts.
Also, have you trashed prefs?
Lastly, are you running 10.0.5? I had similar problems back when running 10.0.2, but every 10.0.4 and up, nothing like that. These days, running fine and zippy.
It really sounds like either your events, project or the program itself is corrupt. Sorry.
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A couple of other things: purge both your event and project render files. You could be maxing out ram that way. Lastly, how many events and and/or projects do you have open in your library at the same time? If you have a lot open simultaneously, that could really kludge your performance. We use Event Manager X so that only only event and projects relating to one project (client) are open at a time.
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If things are slow and there is no Projects or Events, there could be another reason.
First,
Open your Activity Monitor (it’s in the Utilities folder) and click the CPU tab. Sort by percentage.
Do you see anything that is spiking the CPU?
Next click the memory tab, how much free ram?
Is Spotlight running?
What kind of hard drives are you using?
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Thanks to all for the help; trashing preferences did the trick! I was really getting worried when even without any events or projects it was still slow…
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