[Luke Hartley]

Does Pinch and Zoom work in the timeline with a Magic Trackpad now?

[Luke Hartley]

Yes, this seems to fix it.
Unfortunately, FCPX is now taking 10minutes to quit and another 10-12minutes to open again.

I believe I’ve put too many clips in a single event and this is causing a major performance hit.

[Luke Hartley]

Well, I’ve exported my Conformed compound clips and created a new Event and also a new Project.

This has DRAMATICALLY improved the performance issues. I no longer am waiting 16-20 seconds between edits.

I really didn’t want to export the compound clips, because i wanted to be able to dive back in if something needed tweaking, but there was no other options at this point.

[Luke Hartley]

I’m creating the compound clips just to narrow down the footage until I get to my final edit.
So, I’ve taken about 65 clips and created 11 different compound clips. Each compound clip contains 6 connected clips and my settings for these compound clips are 1280×720, 59.94fps.

Then I rough cut those 11 compound clips and created 4 new compound clips with the setting of 1280×720 @ 30fps.

From there, I did the conform speed to give me my slow motion effect. When I do that, I get the orange bar at the top of my timeline.
I will render, but if I drag an in or out point, It wants me to re-render again.

Right now, if i move any clips around or do any kind of edits, i’m waiting for about 16 seconds while the rainbow wheel spins.

Am I just pushing the software too much? This doesn’t seem like it is anything outrageous, but something isn’t right.

Thanks guys.