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Improving performance, minimizing beach ball on clip select
I am running FCPX 10.1 on a 2 yr old iMac. For the most part, seems fairly responsive, even with 4k footage, but the one annoying performance bottleneck is the ‘beach ball’ I see for 3-5 seconds every single time I select a clip.
I have caching enabled of course.
Is there anything I am missing to improve performance, other than a brand new Mac pro? -
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I think we’d want to know what CPU, GPU and amount of RAM you have. Plus what sort of RAID is the footage on and how is it connected? Some third party effects can also cause a bit of beach-ball pause so it’d probably be worth mentioning those as well. And too many nested compound clips might also lead to some beach-balling.
Of course, if none of the above apply, then yes, you may need a beefier Mac.
I’ll add that I don’t have any beach-balls on selecting clips with my low-end 2010 iMac, 2012 iMac, or even very often on my 2006 Mac Pro so the issue should be solvable.
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
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Do you have an external A/V output device? I find that a mismatch between project settings and output settings can cause all sorts of troubles, including instantaneous kernel panics.
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