Stuttering / glitching… :(

[Marcus Moore]

As much as I love X, I certainly hope software as mature as Premier or Avid has better overall performance- they’ve had enough time to work on it. X can bog down, and I’m very much looking forward to seeing if they’ve been able to improve responsiveness across the board for the pending update. Even if you don’t have a new MacPro.

[Bob Zelin]

Hi Lance –
when you see a pro user who is using USB2 drives as their media drives –
doesn’t this tell you something right away. You know exactly what is required to run a
professional system – be it FCP-X, Adobe CC, or AVID Media Composer. Those that insist
that they can do it with an entry level computer – well, what can I say. Why waste your breath.
I appreciate the fact that they don’t have a budget, but people don’t like the reality that if you
don’t own a glove, you can’t play on the baseball team.

Just because people like Jenna Marbles are making a fortune making YouTube videos with a low end
camera, and iMovie, doesn’t mean that this represents the pro market.

buy a nice fast Thunderbolt drive array, get lots of RAM, use an SSD drive for cache, and your problems will be gone.

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
maxavid@cfl.rr.com

[Daniel Mulford]

Okay, so my question now – should I go for a smaller, SSD/Thunderbolt drive, for maximum speed? Or should I go for capacity instead, and get maybe a couple terabytes of HDD/USB3 space?

I’m thinking it might be better to go for speed over capacity. Once I’m done with a project, I can always transfer the data to another, cheap backup drive. Makes sense?

[Lance Bachelder]

I concur Bob – but I’ve run FCPX on a Thunderbolt raid with Fusion (SSD hybrid drive) and 32GB RAM etc etc and it still chokes at times when it shouldn’t. And the same files run perfectly in CC…

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Lance Bachelder]

Hey I like FCPX and Premiere was useless to me until the vast improvements made in CC. But FCPX chokes, not all the time but it chokes on every system I’ve ever run it or seen it on – just a fact. I’m not talking single track of Pro Res with a couple of effects – I’m talking real-world situations where layers, effects and transitions collide. And the SAME files and layers and effects run perfectly on the same system in Premiere…

If you can’t remain just a little objective Steve then your opinions are pretty useless and you may wanna head over to the RedUser forums where no one is allowed to critique, review or challenge anything…

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Steve Connor]

I was simply challenging your ridiculously sweeping statement .

“Welcome to FCPX – there’s no machine made – yet – that can run FCPX well”

Which is bullplop, and my opinions are just as useless as yours

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Atilio Menéndez]

You could also install the freeware program “FreeMemory” which displays the overall amount of free memory on the menu bar. Keep an eye on it and you will see that the amount of free memory decreases constantly while using FCPX, like a balloon losing air. Once it gets below a few hundred megabytes the program becomes increasingly unresponsive. Simply quit and restart FCP before that happens, for instance whenever you have less than a gigabyte, and you will recover pretty much all of the memory you have on your system. You will find that FCP runs almost perfectly as long as there is enough memory available.

[Oliver Peters]

I see the same things Lance is seeing on a wide range of machines. Performance – or lack thereof – is the biggest negative I have with X. Not to mention, it’s very unpredictable why and when it happens.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Eric Santiago]

I agree with most of the machine issues here.
But I get that Premiere Pro and at times Avid MC/Symphony too and thats with a Nitris DX 😛
My fave FCPX station is a 2012 Mac Pro with 32GB RAM, 4 x SSD, SAS > GRAID eS Pro and an Nvidia Quadro 4000 x 2 plus a RED ROCKET card.
Average length of projects 20 plus minutes.
Mind you I round trip to AE and Resolve a lot so its not entirely an FCPX station.
Will things change with the tube?
Cant wait to find out 🙂

[Alban Egger]

If you are low on RAM turn of audio waveforms in the eventbrowser.

IMO 16GB is the minimum to have fluent results with X.
USB2 is too slow. Use a Firewire800 or better a thunderbolt external drive. I use WesternDigitals.

And Lance, my MacPro has that 4870 card and X does not fly with it and DaVinci doesn’t work either. It is an outdated card. Most Macbooks have better grafix than 2009 MacPros.