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FCP times out
Although I’ve put the sleep settings for the Mac OS at one hour, it seems to me that whenever I don’t hit a key or move the mouse in FCP for not very long (fifteen minutes?) I have to wake it up. I get the twirly circle, and not very long after, the program comes to life. Is there another setting I’ve missed?
— Bob C
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If you have a very large project, this can happen. Sitting idle for extended periods of time will sort of put FCP to “sleep” and when you hit the keyboard or do something it “wakes” up by re-checking all the media sources.
Even with a small project there would be a momentary lag when FCP “wakes.”
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Bob,
You’re fudging. I told ya to turn those settings to “none.” Other than your monitors, your computer uses very little juice, you probably use more waking it up than allowing it run constantly, and of course it also creates additional issues. So, use the screen savers if you want to save juice, as black monitors, or mostly black monitors eat less power, but turn off all other power saving “features.”
DRW
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[David Roth Weiss] “I told ya to turn those settings to “none.””
Problem solved. I turned the Energy Saver’s computer sleep option to off, set the monitor option to one hour, and unchecked the hard drive box. After that, I didn’t see the twirly circle in FCP after several hours of inactivity.
Thanks.
— Bob
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[walter biscardi] “itting idle for extended periods of time will sort of put FCP to “sleep” and when you hit the keyboard or do something it “wakes” up by re-checking all the media sources.”
Never seen nor heard of any FCP waking behaviour in 6 years of using the product. Small project or large.
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just the occasional Bruce the Wonder Yak sighting on occasion…
Jim
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