[Luis Dechtiar]

“1. Occasionally the playhead loses focus on which is the active pane in dual display set-ups. You’ll be in the timeline and it quits updating video on the viewer as you skim. That’s because focus has shifted to the browser. Click into the browser and back into the timeline to refresh. This is an old bug, BTW.”

Has anyone found a way to get rid of this bug? It’s happening very often. Since you mentioned the problem being dual display set-ups, is there a way to reconfigure something to make it so the playhead stops losing focus?

[Luis Dechtiar]

The 16 and 48TB drives are RAID, but I think the 8TB is not.

I’ve tested this on different systems, including a 2016 MacBook Pro with Touchbar (2.9GHz Core i7, 16GB RAM) and a 2015 5K iMac (4Ghz, 32GB RAM) but the issue is present in both.

I’m trying to get my FCPX updated to the latest version (10.3.2) but for some reason I can’t get the download to appear in my Updates tab. I’ll report back on whether the update makes a difference.

[Luis Dechtiar]

Thanks Noah. To answer some of your questions:

– I’m using Proxy media, so that should at least be the most optimal kind of media, one would think.

– The amount of metadata might be a factor: I’ve used Lumberyard to sync the transcripts of all these interviews to the Multicam clip. I’m thinking that learning the Keyword Metadata (control+0) for the clips I’ve already put on sequences would hopefully help lighten the load.

– I’m using Thunderbolt 2 G-Tech drives, some 8TB, some 16TB, and a 48TB. So the speeds are up to 1300MB/s and 7200RPM. I would think that would be fast enough, but do I need to be working with even faster drives?

[Luis Dechtiar]

I have a sequence with a lot of text (subtitles) and it was doing the “Preparing Video for Display” message basically every time I clicked on something new. It also started requiring Rendering on everything. What I did was switch the Playback Video Quality to Low, and now both problems are resolved. Maybe that would help.