Mike Warmels
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Well, I am using the fastest drives I have…hehehe…
But I don’t understand why FCPX needs so much faster drives? Why do I have to spend literally hundreds if not well over a thousand dollars to replace all of my G-Raid USB3 drives to work properly? Is that really necessary for a normal performance on FCPX?
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Correct. For two reasons:
1. It doesn’t prevent the slowing down of FCPX
2. I think the ‘better performance’ feature is frankly one of the silliest options in FCPX. I’m editing and I wanna look what my footage looks like. With constantly varying resolution, which looks cheap and messy, that doesn’t help. Now, if it was constant, I kinda could live with it. But it doesn’t, FCPX gives me a resolution it can handle at that moment. Well, duh.. in AVID there’s an option have a half quality output. I don’t need to use it, full res is just as fast, but even that one is better than what FCPX gives me. And… it’s a constant resolution.
To be totally frank: I think “better performance” is crap to look at. I might as well turn off my broadcast monitor during editing. -
Ha David, you are so right.
I did check it, they check out allright. I mean they work fine on AVID, so slowing down there, nice immediate control of the media, now 0-2 seconds waiting for it to start playing after I press space bar etc.. So I keep wondering what FCPX is doing so much much more than AVID with this footage. -
Nah, I figured as much. But as I said a long time before, I can live with the sometimes awkward handling of clips, opening and closing of audio and all that stuff, as long as it’s fast. At least then you can get a rhythm going and build speed from there.
As with all modern computer software: as long as everything goes fast no one notices how bad the programming is. 😉
Unfortunately, 10.1.4 is not offering that possibility. Here’s hoping to an opportunity of updating soon!
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I am. But I don’t feel any sympathy for the issues I’m addressing. The answer to every problem I run into is: use the fastest drives you have, update to the lastest versions.
FCPX10.2.1 better be the Messiah some of you claim it to be. 😉
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Yeah, I will move the cache to internal hard drive. And upgrade to the latest versions of OSX and FCP as soon as I can. Both are not an option at this time. (due to client and AVID functionality (i.e. not supported yet on the latest version of Yosemite)).
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Nope. It’s the ‘Cancelling Background tasks” thing every one gets once in a while.
It’s not a warning really. It’s cancelling them so I don’t have to wait for it to shut down. So fine. But it shows it doing something, while the Background processes window is idle… So to me that shows FCPX is doing stuff… stuff maybe that could be slowing my NLE down. But since I don’t know what it’s doing, there’s not a sensible thing to be said about it.
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I was just saying: just buying faster drives (and even SSD drives costs money, and a bay etc etc) should not be the solution. Because USB3 should, I think suffice. Simply because other NLE’s manage fine with it. Why does FCPX need so much more power and speed? That is the question I keep asking and not getting answered..
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It does it too after some time just editing without importing. I dunno why? Why doesn’t to SHOW me what it’s doing?
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I know how to do that. I’ve set it up mostly as you said already, except for the cache. I’ll try that next.
The point I was making that only using SSD thunderbolt drives would be a ridiculous solution. I think the Apple is equipment is already quite prices to make such demands, while other NLE’s don’t need so much hard drive power.
And I have 10.2 set up next to 10.1.4 on my MacBook. Haven’t worked with it yet (and I can’t because of the projects I am doing for/with a client stuck on 10.1.4). But I sure hope it stops grinding FCPX to a halt every two hours. That’s all I’m asking for. (and a decent mixer, and an audio cross fade, and identical trimming options on all storylines, and one decent timecode clock for all footage, and better ‘Reveal in Browser’ functionality etc etc… but we’ll see when that comes. I think I’m gonna enjoy the entered playhead a lot – dearly missed for a long long time.)