[Adam Chesbrough]

So there is no way to “send to compressor” and then create a custom export setting that gives me .mp4 container…is that correct? I do a lot of product videos so it would be ideal to select all 40 FCPX projects, batch send to compressor and then output all to .mp4 with one click.

Going back to FCP7 the fastest way is to export as source then encode in wondershare video convertor. It would be nice to just make two mouse clicks (select all send to compressor and then encode) to reach the same goal. Would allow me to walk away during encoding.

Just seems like this isn’t possible. Strange that this isn’t an option.

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[Adam Chesbrough]

That’s where I thought I was, sorry about that

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[Adam Chesbrough]

Thanks. looks like I have to shift+T first and then use shift+cmd+A to deselect when I eventually click on the lower most clip. Now the only issue is to get a keyboard shortcut that selects the top most clip. “C” selects the bottom most or the clip that I am hovering over…which is fine, but it would be great if FCPX allowed us to select a specific clip in the hierarchy.

Thanks

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[Adam Chesbrough]

So I went nuts and reinstalled everything, disabled plugins etc. The issue is with the way that the OSX is dealing with the “file cache”. Apparently mavericks got really aggressive when it comes to file cache and only releases it when it is needed. in reality the exports are only using at 5-6GB of RAM but it is not dumping the file cache. So…the RAM is available and normally this doesn’t even effect system performance. I have had FCPX crash during long exports because it seems that the os doesn’t know when to dump the RAM.

Therefore, this is certainly a problem within my personal hack or with certain drives that are installed. Im going to take this to the hackintosh boards. Thanks again for everyone’s help.

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[Adam Chesbrough]

Thanks Nicholas and Robin. I have tried all the basics with no results:
-delete prefrs
-moving to another library, disk, project etc

Before I do anything drastic I think you are right on with removing all FCPX suites and installing only the necessary plugins. For this project the main plugins I am running are magic bullet suites and LUT utility (all of which are updated). As for CUDA, I am running a GTX670 which utilizes CUDA especially with the adobe suites, so I am going to hold onto that (but good suggestion to see what uninstalling CUDA would do and that is something that I will definitely try). There are other graphics cards kexts out there that I can try last.

As a last resort I am going to switch to a new motherboard and see if the board is what is giving me issues.

The thing that is strange is that the system flys and then starts to slow down the longer that I run FCPX. I thought it was a bluetooth issue as with the bluetooth dongle plugged in I am unable to run boot flags via USB keyboard (in order to boot to safe mode, which actually solves the problem intermittently), which got me thinking that something is wrong with the mobo since I have never seen that issue in any of my numerous hacks. These last steps are hackintosh things so will probably for a different form. The system is sandy bridge so it might all come down to the fact that I have gotten three great years out of this system and it might be time to change the mobo and CPU to haswell and beyond. Going to take an afternoon to try and figure this out though.

Chances are that the next iteration of FCPX would fix the issue, but then again it might make things even worse…

I will go through the troubleshooting steps this afternoon and report back what I find out

Thanks again all

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[Adam Chesbrough]

Lot to be said! Have fun

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[Adam Chesbrough]

That “have” the technical abilities… This conversation is over we are both wasting our time. Let’s get back to work.

Would love to see that 5k project you’re working on when it’s complete. Never worked with 5k. I’m sure its amazing

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[Adam Chesbrough]

Well I disagree. This beast has been running like a dream for the past two years. It geek benches to 22k which equates to a 8-10k machine. So for those that dont have the budget and have the technical abilities to troubleshoot then hacks are the only way to get the performance.

I’m glad you love your macs and you should support those that love their hacks. And that rhymes… which is just nice

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[Adam Chesbrough]

Apologies. Just thought you were giving me a hard time for using a hackintosh without adding any insight. Good to know that this is far from normal. Going to install the new mobo, should get everything back to normal.

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[Adam Chesbrough]

That comment is not a helpful response. I have been using this machine for years with a hiccup until now and I can assure you that the issue is easily fixable with a little help from the fcpx community.