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Jan 22, 2012 4:51 AM in response to DJ Dukeby innocentius,This seems to be widespread issue with FCPX most often in combination with Lion. I use Snow and have no memory problems.
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Jan 22, 2012 7:10 AM in response to DJ Dukeby Sputnik Slim,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.
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Jan 22, 2012 7:52 PM in response to DJ Dukeby FloridaJo,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.
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Jan 23, 2012 6:32 AM in response to Sputnik Slimby DJ Duke,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..
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Jan 23, 2012 6:42 AM in response to innocentiusby DJ Duke,Do you work on huge projects, like over 60 minutes without any problems?
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Jan 23, 2012 6:50 AM in response to DJ Dukeby Wild Giles,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.
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Jan 23, 2012 7:42 AM in response to Wild Gilesby DJ Duke,Thanks
How do I make proxies after I already began editing?
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Jan 23, 2012 10:14 AM in response to DJ Dukeby Wild Giles,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.
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Jan 28, 2012 12:15 PM in response to DJ Dukeby zak fromtoronto,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...
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Jan 28, 2012 1:56 PM in response to zak fromtorontoby Wild Giles,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.
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Jan 28, 2012 1:57 PM in response to Kyle Roachby Sputnik Slim,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!
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Jan 28, 2012 8:09 PM in response to Sputnik Slimby dpcam1,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
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Jan 29, 2012 9:17 AM in response to dpcam1by Kyle Roach,Is Event Manager in the APP store, I could not find it?