still driving me nuts

[Mike Warmels]

Nah, I figured as much. But as I said a long time before, I can live with the sometimes awkward handling of clips, opening and closing of audio and all that stuff, as long as it’s fast. At least then you can get a rhythm going and build speed from there.

As with all modern computer software: as long as everything goes fast no one notices how bad the programming is. 😉

Unfortunately, 10.1.4 is not offering that possibility. Here’s hoping to an opportunity of updating soon!

[Craig Alan]

No assumption made. I’m had in the past set my media drives for media only to find cases in which the library got full of huge files. Currently thAt is not happening on my system.

Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.

[David Roth weiss]

Mike, have you run either the AJA or Blackmagic disk speed test apps to see what the “actual” read/write speeds are? I mean seriously, this stuff ain’t rocket science, but it is science nonetheless. All this back and forth banter with all the FCP X gurus, and not one recomendation to look into the science underlying that could easily be the source of your performance issues?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[Steve Connor]

So are you using the “better quality” setting as opposed to “better performance”?

[Steve Connor]

[Mike Warmels] “The answer to every problem I run into is: use the fastest drives you have,
“

Of course it is! because faster drives improve performance considerably! Why else do we all spend money on faster and faster RAID drives if a single USB3 drive is good enough

[Mike Warmels]

Ha David, you are so right.
I did check it, they check out allright. I mean they work fine on AVID, so slowing down there, nice immediate control of the media, now 0-2 seconds waiting for it to start playing after I press space bar etc.. So I keep wondering what FCPX is doing so much much more than AVID with this footage.

[Steve Connor]

[Mike Warmels] “I did check it, they check out allright.”

So what speed were you getting from them?

[Mike Warmels]

Correct. For two reasons:
1. It doesn’t prevent the slowing down of FCPX
2. I think the ‘better performance’ feature is frankly one of the silliest options in FCPX. I’m editing and I wanna look what my footage looks like. With constantly varying resolution, which looks cheap and messy, that doesn’t help. Now, if it was constant, I kinda could live with it. But it doesn’t, FCPX gives me a resolution it can handle at that moment. Well, duh.. in AVID there’s an option have a half quality output. I don’t need to use it, full res is just as fast, but even that one is better than what FCPX gives me. And… it’s a constant resolution.
To be totally frank: I think “better performance” is crap to look at. I might as well turn off my broadcast monitor during editing.

[Mike Warmels]

Well, I am using the fastest drives I have…hehehe…

But I don’t understand why FCPX needs so much faster drives? Why do I have to spend literally hundreds if not well over a thousand dollars to replace all of my G-Raid USB3 drives to work properly? Is that really necessary for a normal performance on FCPX?

[Mike Warmels]

On the G-RAID: 120 Mbs.