FCPX 10.04 stable for you?

[Derek Andonian]

Unless they fixed that mess of a timeline, I don’t care how stable it is…

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[Greg Jones]

I gave up on trying to edit. On both my systems all my media plays very choppy and stutters. Video output through my Aja is very buggy still. This is on top of my distaste for a lot of the other issues I was having with FCPX. I’ve moved on to Premiere CS6 and Avid MC6 for now until Apple can come out with a stable release and by then it may be too late.

Greg Jones
D7,Inc.

[Lance Bachelder]

Completely stable so far but I haven’t done any really big, complex projects with it yet.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California

[David Lawrence]

Compound clip related project bloat unchanged from last year’s release. Still runs sluggish on my old laptop which works fine with legacy and can cut 4K in Premiere Pro 6.

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[Bret Williams]

Extremely stable, fast, and smooth on the i7 iMac with black magic intensity extreme. No crashes. No beach balls.

While at the same time FCP 7 crashes with a screenshot png every time. Ditto with CS6 on BMD drivers.

I’ve only done a couple 5D multicam projects and it was amazing. From sync to playback to color correction to audio mix. No transcoding necessary.

[Oliver Peters]

Very stable for me on multiple systems. Some issues though.

1. Persistent loss of links to rendered files. This may be related to using blank titles as adjustment layers as it happens more often with those projects.
2. Today I had a case where I had applied a vignette yesterday and today the filter was there, but no visible effect and no slider controls within the filter itself. This was also in an adjustment layer.
3. Performance with any complex filter using an external GUI (MB Looks, DFT Film Stocks, Tiffen Dfx, Sapphire Edge) is TERRIBLE. Also very long render times.
4. On a volume-based SAN system, Add SAN Location doesn’t work.
5. On a volume-based SAN system, occasional beach-balling (around 1 sec.) when Event info is being updated.

Performance with BMD Decklink card is quite good on latest drivers. Same system also OK with CS6 and FCP 7.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Helmut Kobler]

It’s stable, in that it doesn’t crash, hardly ever.

However, I regularly encounter a bug where the skimmer functionality stops working on the timeline. I can get the skimmer working again if I hit the Project Library button on the timeline to bring up the project library, and then hit the button again to make it disappear. It takes about 2 secs but is annoying nonetheless.

I also notice how video skips during timeline playback on an 8 core 2.93GHz 2009 Mac Pro with 32GB and an 8 drive miniSAS raid. It skips if I have the Waveform monitor on, and/or it skips if I have playback settings set to High Quality instead of Better Performance. You’d think on a system like this FCPX could playback ProRes 422 video reliably. So that’s annoying, but if I set Playback Settings to Better Performance, then playback is smooth. Of course, the video doesn’t look beautiful anymore.

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[John Godwin]

Fast and stable on I7 iMac, close to the same on my Mac Pro tower (circa 2010, the one that has never ever been stable with FCP7) and slow and choppy on my 2008 17″ MBP. Obviously the more current the hardware the better.

And if Apple takes my magnetic timeline away I’ll have no choice but to go back in time and use something else.

Seriously, the biggest shock I got moving from Liquid to FCP was that the timeline was split into audio and video. Top and bottom. In Liquid any track could be any thing. And I wondered how a good GUI could be anything else.

I suspect this is partially why I like FCPX. More flexibility.

Best,
John

[Bret Williams]

It actually runs great on my 2007 MacPro 1,1 as well. Had to upgrade the card to Radeon 5770, but with the GRaid on eSata and 16gigs, it’s acceptable. Not as much RT or as smooth of Multicam, but compared to FCP 7’s h264 capabilities (nada) it’s fine. And it could always be converted to ProRes, but I’ve not bothered.

My matrox is on the older machine, and it can’t play audio out worth a darn for some reason. It’s just all static. Filled with audio pops all the time. But I can run the audio out the mac instead and it works fine.

I’m looking at PPro CS6, but it seems pretty unstable. I think I’ll be running 2-3 NLEs here for awhile.

[Bret Williams]

Still learning X, but I hadn’t heard of using a blank title as an adjustment layer. So maybe that’s the issue. Do you do background rendering or transcoding or any of that? Proxy’s? All I’ve done is straight native h264 and never had any media management problems, corruption, or hard drives getting filled up. But I only render manually just like FCP 7. It would seem that background rendering would definitely fill up hard drives since it isn’t managed like 7.