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Q: FCPX eating too much memory - slow operation

Has anyone been able to fix the memory issue with FCPX?  I have a Corei7 MAcbookpro with 8GB of memory.  I am editing a feature and within 5-10 minutes the memory is gone and my computer freezes.  I have installed icleanmemory which seems to help a little by freeing up memory, but it still really slow and it has to free up memory CONSTANTLY. 

 

This is a real big problem.  Is it Lion or FCPX?  And what is the solution?  I thought apple woud have fixed this by now, as I have read many others with the same problem.

 

Thanks

Posted on Jan 22, 2012 1:14 AM

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  • by innocentius,

    innocentius innocentius Jan 22, 2012 4:51 AM in response to DJ Duke
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    Jan 22, 2012 4:51 AM in response to DJ Duke

    This seems to be widespread issue with FCPX most often in combination with Lion. I use Snow and have no memory problems.

  • by Sputnik Slim,

    Sputnik Slim Sputnik Slim Jan 22, 2012 7:10 AM in response to DJ Duke
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    Jan 22, 2012 7:10 AM in response to DJ Duke

    I was having a similar situation and installed Event Manager, a $5 download. It enables you to open only the projects and events you are using, thus freeing up memory. My dreaded spinning beach ball went away. They should rename it The Beach Ball Killer.

  • by FloridaJo,

    FloridaJo FloridaJo Jan 22, 2012 7:52 PM in response to DJ Duke
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    Jan 22, 2012 7:52 PM in response to DJ Duke

    I find it a memory hog as well.  Especially when you make changes to the story line (main track) and it has to render all over again.  Also scrubbing back and forth will eat up memory until the playhead no longer follows the mouse.  It seems to get worse the more projects/events I accumulate.

  • by DJ Duke,

    DJ Duke DJ Duke Jan 23, 2012 6:32 AM in response to Sputnik Slim
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    Jan 23, 2012 6:32 AM in response to Sputnik Slim

    I will try that, but in the meantime I REALLY hope that Apple is working on this.  It is terrible to work with it when you can hardly do anything..

  • by DJ Duke,

    DJ Duke DJ Duke Jan 23, 2012 6:42 AM in response to innocentius
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    Jan 23, 2012 6:42 AM in response to innocentius

    Do you work on huge projects, like over 60 minutes without any problems?

  • by Wild Giles,

    Wild Giles Wild Giles Jan 23, 2012 6:50 AM in response to DJ Duke
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    Jan 23, 2012 6:50 AM in response to DJ Duke

    I suggest, editing with proxy media selected in the prefernces, this will help. And break the movie into 15-20 min sections. I'm just finishing up a feature film I could get away with picture editing with a 2 hours cut. When I started to fine cut the sound, FCP X really slowed down, I have 14GB of RAM, made a huge difference to cut up the cut into 15-20 minute parts.

  • by DJ Duke,

    DJ Duke DJ Duke Jan 23, 2012 7:42 AM in response to Wild Giles
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    Jan 23, 2012 7:42 AM in response to Wild Giles

    Thanks  

     

    How do I make proxies after I already began editing?

  • by Wild Giles,

    Wild Giles Wild Giles Jan 23, 2012 10:14 AM in response to DJ Duke
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    Jan 23, 2012 10:14 AM in response to DJ Duke

    You can select the clips in the event browser and right click to bring up a window that has "Transcode Media" as an option from there I dialog box will pop up, check mark proxy. This will create much smaller file versions of your clips.

  • by zak fromtoronto,

    zak fromtoronto zak fromtoronto Jan 28, 2012 12:15 PM in response to DJ Duke
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    Jan 28, 2012 12:15 PM in response to DJ Duke

    I hate these... work arounds... sorry guys, but I bought a brand new top of the line 27 inch with 16 gig and the 3.4 ghz i7.

     

    I shouldnt need to use proxies... I shouldnt need to use memory managers... I shouldn't need to get third party preference managers...

     

    I've eliminated sooooo many things it's not... I've done fresh installs... I've done fresh OSX install... I've verified/repaired permissions, disks, etc.

     

    Please someone fix this problem... The only thing that truly works for me is a reboot... And then it FLIES again for awhile...

     

    And then it starts chugging like a ************...

     

    S.O.S... my hourly rate has gone from 75 to 25 with these crashes.

     

    Major problem with Lion and FCPX guys...

  • by Kyle Roach,

    Kyle Roach Kyle Roach Jan 28, 2012 12:37 PM in response to zak fromtoronto
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    Jan 28, 2012 12:37 PM in response to zak fromtoronto

    agreed

  • by Wild Giles,

    Wild Giles Wild Giles Jan 28, 2012 1:56 PM in response to zak fromtoronto
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    Jan 28, 2012 1:56 PM in response to zak fromtoronto

    There are a lot of shouldnt's, you should leave feedback for FCPX. AT the moment FCPX can't behave at a modest speed without proxy selected and maximium 30 minute timleines. Would be nice if the next update, which apple said was coming very soon, addresses these memory issues.

  • by Sputnik Slim,

    Sputnik Slim Sputnik Slim Jan 28, 2012 1:57 PM in response to Kyle Roach
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    Jan 28, 2012 1:57 PM in response to Kyle Roach

    Occupy FCPX.

     

    Having said that, Event Manager really did improve how FCPX works. They should add the $5 to the cost of FCPX and just have it be a part of that, or at least give you a coupon!

  • by dpcam1,

    dpcam1 dpcam1 Jan 28, 2012 8:09 PM in response to Sputnik Slim
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    Jan 28, 2012 8:09 PM in response to Sputnik Slim

    Since buying Event Manager I've not experienced a single crash.....before that fcpx was crashing all the time. I've just created a test edit of 50 minutes duration with a large amount of graphics on the timeline. As I was editing I watched the activity monitor religiously and was shocked to see free ram drop away to 20mb but the program still kept going albeit a little slower.

     

    IMac i7

    12gb ram

  • by Kyle Roach,

    Kyle Roach Kyle Roach Jan 29, 2012 9:17 AM in response to dpcam1
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    Jan 29, 2012 9:17 AM in response to dpcam1

    Is Event Manager in the APP store, I could not find it?

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