[Joe Redifer]

I’ve had this issue a couple of times on my Mac Studio. I use APFS drives to edit. It was always FCP 11.x. I usually had to delete the file and reimport it to get it to behave reliably. Again this hasn’t happened often at all, so I’m assuming it was an issue during the import of that file. Not sure if it was a FCP 11 thing and if it was, no clue if they fixed it in FCP 12 as Apple usually doesn’t mention everything they fix. They mentioned no fixes with FCP 12.

[Joe Redifer]

Final Cut Pro HATES long projects with tons of edits. It’s built for enthusiasts, not professionals who use stuff like Avid. I even get the beach ball of death when all of my media is on a superfast NVMe drive connected via Thunderbolt 4. Not to mention everything Apple has done to make MacOS slower (just try opening a folder with a ton of files in it…. MacOS HATES doing that now whereas a couple of years ago it was super easy for it to do on lesser machines). It’s probably only gonna get worse. Anyway one thing that I’ve found which helps greatly is never zoom out too much on the timeline. It works normally if you’re zoomed in so only 3 or maybe 5 minutes is visible at any given time. Zoom all the way out and you’ll be waiting for a while, but it will catch up.

[Joe Redifer]

Final Cut seems a bit more snappy all around when the scrolling timeline is turned on. I imagine they had to rework a lot of code to achieve this and that’s why they resisted for so long. The code required needs to keep it updated constantly which is nice. It’ll take a few days to get used to a scrolling timeline but I think once you do then it won’t be a bother.

I’m not on Sonoma yet. I have no need for the special export options that require it. I never ever use FCP preset to export. I simply MUST have control over each and every little thing on an export, so the built-in presets are a no-go for me. Instead I use custom Compressor presets and export that way.

[Joe Redifer]

Looks like 10.7 could be a bit interesting. I didn’t watch much of the video in the first post because home boy just talks to his chat and the entire thing is an hour long, so I just read Apple’s article. I really do wish they’d retire the “machine learning” marketing buzzword and just call it AI. The machine doesn’t learn anything. If it did, my machine should be smarter than someone else’s machine because of all the things it has learned. But no. It’s such a misnomer and the bandwagoners LOVE it.

Some of the new features I swear we’ve had for a while. Different colored roles? How is this any different than before? Connected storylines? How is this different or better than making a compound clip? The info was scarce, but if it works the way I think it might, I suppose it could be better if I needed to extend the beginning of the connected storyline, which is a pain to do in a compound clip.

Still, I look forward to FCP 10.7… for Mac.

[Joe Redifer]

Well I guess I’ll make these my forums now, but PLEASE someone add a REPLY button to the bottom of the page and a quote function (unless I am missing something??)

Anyway:
“Compounding the problem, Apple has made clear over the decades that they don’t financially support websites supporting their software.”

Why would Apple give money to random forums? Honestly I think that would be a conflict of interest if they did. The people who run the forum would bow to Apple’s will on what the posts could and couldn’t say. I wouldn’t like that at all. It’s the main reason I stay away from the Apple Discussion forums.