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Buggy Wuggy
The 10.1 update for me has been a stability nightmare.
It’s laggy on the simplest edits, beach balling all over the place.
When I look around other forums there is a lot of frustration about this from people using X on different work stations and across the board complaints about how flakey it’s been acting.
There are little annoying things like the thumbnails for projects showing up blank here and there.
Almost every topic on the techniques forum since the update seems to be about bugs.
I guess I’m just curious why there is not more talk or frustration abut this topic on this forum.
One of my favorite things about X has been how fast I could get things done with it.
With this update, that’ gone.I don’t see how anybody who is actually doing projects on X 10.1 day in and day out is not seeing this.
New features are all well and good but it doesn’t help me while I’m watching the spinning ball.
Sorry guys, I’m just ticked off : /
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My experience so far has been very good. I upgraded to 10.1 as soon as it was out, and after upgrading projects and events I kept working full time on two important current projects, that by the way should be quite difficult for my machine to deal with, with a dozen libraries open at the same time, each containing multiple events and hundreds of clips from many years of shooting, all without transcoding but dealing with original AVCHD and HDV files. I found the new version to be faster and more stable, with much less spinning beach ball showing on the very same projects. It does get a bit slow and less reactive after some hours of editing, but less than it used to be with the previous release.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
Did you do a fresh install of FCPX? is the problem on new or upgraded projects? I had a similar issue on an upgrade install but it went away after a fresh one.
Steve Connor
There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum
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I agree with Steve.
There seems to be a lot of weird things happening with upgraded Mavericks installs.
Performance wise, this update has been great for me, even on the same hardware.
I used to get many more beach balls and stalls, now I don’t.
On brand new hardware, performance is even better.
At the very least, a few folks around here have said that creating a new user has helped with oddities. It’s worth checking out and relatively easy to do.
Or, taking the time to build a Mavericks system from a fresh install will serve you better in the long run, if it hasn’t been done already.
Also, be sure App Nap is off.
Jeremy
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Or, taking the time to build a Mavericks system from a fresh install will serve you better in the long run, if it hasn’t been done already.”
I am on nMBPr with Mavericks (which came installed), and 10.1 has been okay, but I’m currently working on a project that is largely XF codec from the XF305, and it’s performance is lackluster at best. I constantly have to render every time I do anything, even as simple as using a text overlay effect from FCPXs built-in effects. Very annoying.
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Tony,
My sympathies to you, man. But FCPX 10.1 has been like a rocket to me since the update. I used to launch CS6 and now I look forward to working with 10.1. This is on a Mac Pro 2008. Multicam used to dog slow and now it flies. Even my clients have seen much improvements in their speed and workflow.
Something else must be amiss with your install or hardware. Try working with projects on a different drive to see if that makes a difference, As Jeremy suggested try a fresh install…
best regards,
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I would optimize the media. That codec is the perfect candidate for it.
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I’m still looking for all these bug reports. Solid as a rock for me. I see a few posts that are corrupt Mavericks user folders , but that’s a mavericks thing. Lots of those because people were forced to update I guess. Lots of issues with people screwing media management up because they didn’t read the release notes, white paper, or Hodgett’s or ripple training’s article(s).
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Smooth sailing here. The only real issue I have encountered is a long render time for the Boris CC film effect. Everything else goes much faster. Noticed the same thing in Motion as well so it could be the effect itself or I am missing some setting.
I find that 10.1 is much faster, more responsive and much more stable. Motion does have its occasional moment but seems to improved there as well.
I will say that Final Cut Pro launches must faster than Premiere Pro even thought about. Of course being on an older version might be why this is.
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Been having the same problem, the timeline indicator gets stuck every time I back it up on the transport and try to go forward. Its like a one second delay, making trimming a nightmare. I think writing and trading preferences helps. Why this is always necessary with fcp is a mystery.
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[Steve Connor] “Did you do a fresh install of FCPX? is the problem on new or upgraded projects? I had a similar issue on an upgrade install but it went away after a fresh one.
“I have had the problems on old projects and new ones. I’m gonna take your advice and try a fresh install.
Fabrizio is running the same machine I am and it’s smooth for him so I should be able to get the same results.
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