FCPX 10.1 Lag

[Michael Garber]

Does restarting FCP bring back the responsiveness? I experienced some lag on a recent project. Restarting the app helped. It would slow down again after some time.

Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
Blog: GARBERSHOP
My Moviola Webinar on Cutting News in FCP X

[Loren Risker]

Restarting FCPX or the computer doesn’t seem to help consistently. I also wonder if it lags when it’s creating a library backup.

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OutOfFocus.TV – Original series, music videos, mini-docs.

[Michael Garber]

Just out of curiosity, how complex is your timeline? Also how many clips do you have in the entire library?

Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
Blog: GARBERSHOP
My Moviola Webinar on Cutting News in FCP X

[Loren Risker]

This particular project is very small, six 3-minte videos, about 60 minutes from 4 cameras each total. The only filter I’m using is a mask.

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OutOfFocus.TV – Original series, music videos, mini-docs.

[Michael Garber]

Trying to see what might be similar between your project and mine… Maybe to find the root of the issue.

Do you have a lot of cuts in your timelines? Are they multicam? How about lots of J- or L-cuts?

Are the clips 15 minutes each? Or are they broken down into smaller clips?

I know it’s been said a million times, but I trashed the prefs, fixed the permissions on the boot, and also ran disk warrior on the media drive. Unscientifically, it seemed to help a little bit.

Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
Blog: GARBERSHOP
My Moviola Webinar on Cutting News in FCP X

[Loren Risker]

It is a multicam project. Minimal angle changes, no l-cuts. Very few connected clips. The multicam clips are less than 5 minutes each.

As soon as I finish the export I’m going to try trashing everything as you suggest and run my next project on a local drive.

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OutOfFocus.TV – Original series, music videos, mini-docs.

[Michael Garber]

Well, we both have multicam in common. Maybe that’s a culprit. Update me when you’re done.

Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
Blog: GARBERSHOP
My Moviola Webinar on Cutting News in FCP X

[Loren Risker]

I tested a locally stored project without multicams and still had log, so hopefully that means our xsan isn’t the problem.

I then rebooted into recovery, fixed permissions and repaired disks, restarted and trashed all the support files using Digital Rebellion’s preference manager.

Now the same library is working very smoothly – so maybe it was just something in the preference carried over. I haven’t trashed them since maybe 10.0.6

Now let’s see if it comes back!

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OutOfFocus.TV – Original series, music videos, mini-docs.

[Tony West]

Seems a little laggy to me also and I don’t have any multi cam clips to deal with.

[Jason Jenkins]

Just curious; did you guys do clean installs of Mavericks?

Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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