Q: Final Cut Pro X running EXTREMELY slow.
Ever since I updated to OSX Yosemite FCPX has been running EXTREMELY slow. Things like importing and exporting media works okay but when it comes to media analysis and standard workflow it is unusable. Before the update I could drag into a new project 3+ hours of footage, add my effects, color corrections, transitions etc. and work right through the background rendering with no problem. It would keep up fine and I never had to wait for it to catch up. Then I wold cut it up with the blade tool, do a final render and export with no issues. Now I have to wait multiple hours for the rendering and can't use background rendering. If I don't leave it alone and let it render with every minor edit I do it will take literal days to edit footage. I had to leave it over night with a 1 hour long project. Doing minor color correction and hue/saturation adjustment on a 20 minute video of GoPro footage took just under three and a half hours yesterday. I neverhad issues like this before Yosemite. If anyone could please help I would greatly appreciate it as this is severely effecting my video output.
I am using a late 2012 model MacBook Pro. 2.5 GHz Core i5, upgraded to 16GB of RAM with FCPX 10.0.4. Honestly the whole machine has noticeably slowed down since the update to Yosemite.
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), Upgraded to 16 GB of RAM
Posted on Dec 16, 2014 9:17 PM
