FCPX 10.0.5 – Audio Waveforms Drawing in Slowly or Not At All

[Tony West]

[Chris Good] “In the 10.0.4 update I noticed that the audio waveforms did not draw in as quickly as they had previously. “

I noticed that also Chris. Kind of frustrating. (I’m running mostly the same hardware as you)

To be honest I have not moved to .5 yet because I wanted to see if it was worth me doing it.

I was hoping that the waveform problem would get fixed in .5 but it seems it didn’t, and got worse.

[Michael Garber]

I find turning off “show reference waveforms” can speed things up a little. But yes, it’s frustrating how FCPX constantly has to rewrite the waveforms. It’s quite similar to FCP7.

Also, hiding waveforms in the event library can help the timeline redraw quicker.

Premiere seems to have this one in the bag. Waveforms seem to be persistant through the timeline when scrolling. But I haven’t used it enough to verify if it works with zooming in and out when playing (which X does not, unfortunately).

Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company

[Jeremy Garchow]

Maybe it’s time to start fresh.

With FCPX closed, try deleting the “Peaks Data” in the Render Files folder which is inside the Project folder.

It might take a bit to rebuild, but maybe that will shake loose any problems.

Jeremy

[T. Payton]

I’m having the same issue also. Both with waveforms and with filmstrips. For now I’m just telling my staff to restart FCP X. That seems to resolve it for a while at least.

Be sure to repot it in FCP X feedback. I reported some redrawing bugs this past spring and I was pleasantly surprised to see them resolved in 10.0.5. They really do read and log all those items.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Stephen W. webster]

For what it’s worth, this worked for me when I had a problem with audio waveforms.