[Loren Risker]

There are definitely still some nasty bugs. Reminds me more of FCP4 than FCP7. However, I use it as my primary editing app every day for pro work.

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[Loren Risker]

I just dealt with an error -1 similar error situation.

In my case, it would fail on different frames each time, and a couple times it failed on frame 0 or frame 1 ( I can’t remember which).

In any case, I was only able to fix it by updating the event and project from 10.0.8 to the current version.

Are you using the latest version of FCPX?

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[Loren Risker]

You can publish any of the color effects from motion and get some great color tools and keyframing that way.

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[Loren Risker]

The issue here is your render files and optimized media will stay in the library, so it will still get large.

But besides that, it will work. That’s pretty much my workflow.

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[Loren Risker]

I do this all the time without issues. Just be careful when messing around with the library inside the finder.

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[Loren Risker]

No matter what, because of some bugs, at times FCPX will just be unresponsive for a bit. So factor that in.

Here are some things you can try:

The first thing I would do is close FCPX and repair disk permissions on your system drive and repair the firewire drive.

Then I would use digital rebellion’s preference manager to delete the preferences.

Those 2 steps eliminate a lot of problems.

Next I would set the background render to 45 seconds or more.

Check your energy preferences and make sure your hard drive and computer aren’t going to sleep too soon.

Check the info of the FCPX app in finder and make sure app nap is off.

If none of that speeds it up, and you’re sure it’s worse for you than other people, you might have some corruption in your library or media.

To check for that, delete all of your render files and transcoded media. Move your original media somewhere safe.

Reimport, retranscode, and see if that helps.

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[Loren Risker]

Try copying the library to back it up, then right click it and show package contents. Does it look like your libraries are in there?

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[Loren Risker]

No solution yet but an update. I recreated this on a second computer so I now think it’s unlikely its a failing graphics card.

It seems to happen when mixing resolution – I have 720 and 1080 in one multicam.

It occurred after I changed the project from 1080 to 720 with the multicam already in the project and then changed the spatial conform to none.

Switching the angle viewer from a 4 up to a 9 up fixed it, but going back to 4 brings back the smeariness or a zoomed in version of the clip.

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[Loren Risker]

I have deleted preferences and it fixes it temporarily. I’m thinking it might be a failing graphics card.

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[Loren Risker]

Any 3rd party effects?

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