The Next FCPX Update

[Gerry Fraiberg]

Now that Apple has updated Logic Pro to 10.1, can the next update to FCPX be far behind?

[Marcus Moore]

I wouldn’t try to correlate FCP and Logic updates. They’re on their own development schedules, and (to my understanding) entirely separate teams on different continents

[David Mathis]

My guess the next update will be a feature based one. Really would like to see keyframing and trimming improvements.

[Helmut Kobler]

And performance improvements with the interface! FCP X’s UI is just plain slow many a time…and i’m not talking about big sprawling projects either.

I have a 6 core 2013 Mac Pro with D500s and 32GB of ram, cutting a 3 minute project using a couple layers of prores 422 footage off of a Thunderbolt 2 8 drive RAID…and the interface is often laggy. Selecting clips, trying to trim them, sometimes skimmer responsiveness, inspector responsiveness (moving in and out of the color corrector, for instance).

I’m surprised this hasn’t been addressed more aggressively by Apple, but letting things fester is generally Apple’s M.O. these days….

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Los Angeles Cameraman
Canon C300 (x2), Zeiss CP.2 lenses, P2 Varicam, etc.
http://www.lacameraman.com

[Steve Connor]

[Helmut Kobler] “I have a 6 core 2013 Mac Pro with D500s and 32GB of ram, cutting a 3 minute project using a couple layers of prores 422 footage off of a Thunderbolt 2 8 drive RAID…and the interface is often laggy. Selecting clips, trying to trim them, sometimes skimmer responsiveness, inspector responsiveness (moving in and out of the color corrector, for instance).

I’m surprised this hasn’t been addressed more aggressively by Apple, but letting things fester is generally Apple’s M.O. these days….”

Are other people seeing this as well? I get it, but I assumed it was that fact that I’m using a 2008 MPro

[Dave Jenkins]

Yes, I have the same computer. 6 core 2013 Mac Pro with D500s and 32GB of ram and sometime I have trouble getting the timeline (project) to be the applications focus. Zooming in and out almost always requires the audio waveforms to rebuild, etc…

Dajen Productions, Santa Barbara, CA
Mac Pro 3.5MHz 6-Core Late 2013
FCP X

[Helmut Kobler]

I assumed that when I was using a 2009 Mac Pro too.

And then I used a 2013 iMac for a while, and didn’t notice it as much…a little but not as much.

Now it seems to be there all the time. I don’t know if the last version or two of FCP X took a step back in terms of performance, but it’s really annoying to invest in Apple’s best equipment and software, and have it all run like a 6 year old set up.

Apple: the company that used to delight, and now more often just disappoints.

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Los Angeles Cameraman
Canon C300 (x2), Zeiss CP.2 lenses, P2 Varicam, etc.
http://www.lacameraman.com

[Michael Hoefler]

I am seeing the laggy behaviour too. Same Mac Pro 6 Core, 32GB 2x D500.
This is really sad. It is a huge difference to Premiere CC 2014. I can edit a whole day within Pr with no lag of responsiveness.
I don’t want new features. I want speed and want to be free of the strange UI behaviours.

Michael

[Nick Toth]

The 10.1.X interface definitely lags worse than previous versions. I’ve sent feedback to Apple and apparently they are aware of it. I hope the next update addresses the issue.

anickt

[Mitch Ives]

Yep, seeing it on a fully loaded 8-core with a TB2 disk array capable of over 900. It’s gotten worse in the latest version. Maybe Apple could pretend for a moment that this is as important as some iPhone issue?

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

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