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Playback & editing very slow on new computer
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Yes, it’s set to better performance
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It’s the same external drive i was using on the MBP. Also, when I first got this computer, it was playing fine. It’s all of sudden just getting worse and worse.
“How was your 1080p ProRes material generated? Is it possible it was 4k H264 and you’re using ProRes proxies at 1080p? Maybe the FCPX viewer is not switch to proxy and it’s trying to edit 4k H264? That would be slow on a MBA.”
How do I determine this? I’m sorry but I don’t know much about this so just need more explanation. We shot the footage on a Panasonic GH4
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This is the drive I’m using: https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Portable-External-Photography-STDR1000100/dp/B00H4XH5FY
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8 GB of RAM is very marginal and it certainly can cause FCPX to grind to a crawl. Once the RAM fills up in a project, the memory swapping with the disk is really slow. Short of adding more memory, make sure no other programs are loaded. Before I got 40 GB of RAM, I would have to close FCPX before using compressor.
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