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  • Went back to 10.1.4 :-{

    Posted by Mark Morache on April 16, 2015 at 3:45 am

    Sadly, I was having too many problems with spinning beachballs and crashes. I’d be curious to know if anyone else with an older computer was having any troubles.

    The good news is that I opened the libraries that have been updated to the new version, and I exported an xml of the library. FCPX lets you export either the newer version of the xml (1.5), or the old version(1.4). I pulled the old apps out of my Time Machine, deleting the new ones, and created a new library, importing the xml, and I’ve restored my libraries and projects.

    Hooray for XML.

    As for my crashes and freezes, I have a lot of applications on my 2010 MBP. I have replaced my optical drive with a second internal hd, so I have 2tb on my old 17″, on an ssd boot drive and a standard drive for my edit media.

    If I had the time, I might try a clean install of Yosemite, but it always takes about a week to get everything back to about where it was.

    Anyone else having problems using FCPX 10.2 on an older computer?

    -Mark

    Craig Alan replied 10 years, 10 months ago 12 Members · 14 Replies
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  • Glenn Grant

    April 16, 2015 at 4:54 am

    I did a clean instal of Yosemite and 10.2 on a 2008 Mac Pro and it has been running great. I haven’t tried any 3D text yet but multicam and color correction working great.

    Bad news is my esata card isn’t working and I might have to go back to Mavericks

  • Mark Smith

    April 16, 2015 at 1:01 pm

    I needed to do an upgrade to latest Yosemite and repair permissions from recovery partition and then everything came together. Prior to that I was in beach ball land every time I wanted to save a still from the browser or time line. After permisions repair and yosemite update no more beach balls.

  • Mark Morache

    April 16, 2015 at 1:11 pm

    I did that, a couple of times. I suspect it’s my internal ssd. I finally tried re-installing Yosemite on it. After 90 min of installing, it tried to boot and gave me an endless succession of kernel panics.

    I’m installing Yosemite in my old internal spinning drive and I’m seriously looking at a tricked out late 2013 mbp from macmall. $2500 for 16gb ram and 1tb solid state memory.

  • Don Smith

    April 16, 2015 at 4:44 pm

    It’s been perfect sailing on both my 2012 MBP and my 2013 Mac Pro. I already had Yosemite up to date when I upgraded FCPX. No problems at all and, let me tell you, I have some complex edits!

    NewsVideo.com

  • Tim Jones

    April 16, 2015 at 6:30 pm

    I’m pushing on a Mac Pro 4,1 w/Quadro 4800 and things are smooth (as can be expected on the older hardware). We have replaced the normal boot drive with Samsung EVO 850 500GB SSDs, and performed a fresh Yosemite install to 10.10.3, but no crashes or delays during normal work (including a LOT of playing with the new 3d Titling).

    Tim

    Tim Jones
    CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
    https://www.tolisgroup.com
    BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

  • Frank Valtellina

    April 16, 2015 at 7:12 pm

    Mac Pro 2010, 12 core with SSD. Updated from Mavericks to Yosemite… no problem. Fcpx 10.2 seems much snappier to use. 🙂

  • Jeff Kirkland

    April 16, 2015 at 10:05 pm

    Everything’s running fine on my 2012 27″ iMac although it only has a 512mb graphics card so i get a warning that the new 3D stuff won’t work properly. The than that FCPX seems to be much faster.

    Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
    http://www.southerncreative.com.au | G+: https://gplus.to/jeffkirkland | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

  • Robin S. kurz

    April 18, 2015 at 9:12 am

    Sounds to me as if your issues are anything but FCP’s fault.

    – RK

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  • Mark Morache

    April 18, 2015 at 4:04 pm

    I wouldn’t say that Robin. I reinstalled my old spinning hard drive that came with the mac, and I had the exact same problem.

    Apple responded to my feedback and I sent them crash info.

    Either I have something on my system that’s causing it to crash, or there are certain configurations that give it problems.

    No matter, because I used it as an excuse to upgrade my computer. I was just wondering if anyone else had any issues with it. I understand the optical flow has changed from the previous version.

    -Mark

  • Robin S. kurz

    April 19, 2015 at 1:27 pm

    [Mark Morache] “I wouldn’t say that Robin. I reinstalled my old spinning hard drive that came with the mac, and I had the exact same problem.”

    I wasn’t implying the disk in particular was root of the problem. I’d say the setup as a whole is a tad too dated. The fact that video demands the latest and greatest to work properly isn’t X specific. But you seem to be on the right track as far as that’s concerned. 😉

    – RK

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