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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

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  • by Ian R. Brown,

    Ian R. Brown Ian R. Brown Dec 18, 2014 5:46 AM in response to John Galt
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    Dec 18, 2014 5:46 AM in response to John Galt

    I've got a few questions about that  OS X Yosemite: Erase and reinstall OS X

     

    1. The web is full of articles about dong a clean install (or erase and install) of Yosemite by means of creating a USB stick installer.

     

    This seems so much simpler  .  .  .  does it work as well?

     

    2. I have a 2012 Mac mini that came with Mavericks but now has the latest Yosemite. If I followed the Apple article would I be reinstalling the version of Mavericks the Mac mini came with or the latest version of Yosemite in the Mac App store?

     

    3. Where and what is the "Recovery Disk"?  Is it a partition on the built-in hard drive or is it a separate item?

  • by John Galt,

    John Galt John Galt Dec 18, 2014 6:02 AM in response to Ian R. Brown
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    Dec 18, 2014 6:02 AM in response to Ian R. Brown

    1. Follow Apple's instructions and ignore what you read elsewhere.

     

    There is no need to create a USB stick unless you had a need to install Yosemite on many Macs and wanted to avoid the need to repeatedly download it from Apple.

     

    Just make sure you have a backup, in the unlikely event reinstalling OS X according to Apple's instructions results in some failure. If such a failure were to occur, the most likely cause would be a coincidental failure of the target system's hard disk / SSD, which would have occurred anyway.

     

    2. To be completely accurate, neither one. You would be installing the version that already resides on the Recovery partition of your hard disk.

     

    Depending on when you upgraded to Yosemite, after reinstalling OS X it might be necessary to perform an incremental update to the latest version of Yosemite (at the moment, OS X 10.10.1). To do that, just launch the Mac App Store and install whatever updates are available.

     

    3. On your Mac it is a small, normally hidden partition of your hard disk.

  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky Dec 18, 2014 6:02 AM in response to Ian R. Brown
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    Dec 18, 2014 6:02 AM in response to Ian R. Brown

    The Recovery Disk is a separate partition of the drive that the OS installs. Be warned however, that this is not actually an OS, nor an installer; this is a boot disk that connects through the Internet to download the OS. It can be extremely slow to operate. It has taken me many hours to reinstall an OS using this method. A properly cloned backup of a clean drive with an installer is substantially quicker in my experience.

  • by etresoft,

    etresoft etresoft Dec 18, 2014 6:06 AM in response to Tom Wolsky
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    Dec 18, 2014 6:06 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

    Always save the installers too.

    Disconnect any external or archive drives before running the Mac App Store.

  • by Ian R. Brown,

    Ian R. Brown Ian R. Brown Dec 18, 2014 7:56 AM in response to John Galt
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    Dec 18, 2014 7:56 AM in response to John Galt

    Thanks James, Tom and etresoft.

     

    A couple more queries to clarify my understanding.

     

    1. Am I correct in thinking that when you erase the hard drive the recovery partition is not erased and couldn't be, short of physically smashing the HDD?

     

    2. I keep copies of my old OS X installers and I also have a 2TB USB 3.0 HDD with a 30GB partition on which I have  a bootable version of Yosemite.

     

    Would my best way of doing a clean install of Yosemite on my Mac mini be to restart onto the USB 3.0 HDD, erase my mini HDD and install Yosemite on it using one of my saved copies?

  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky Dec 18, 2014 8:04 AM in response to Ian R. Brown
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    Dec 18, 2014 8:04 AM in response to Ian R. Brown

    1. It depends. If you erase the partition that has the OS then the recovery partition is not affected

     

    Screen Shot 2014-12-18 at 10.59.12.png

     

    If you erase the drive itself, the recovery part is wiped as well, but is recreated when the OS is installed.

     

     

    Would my best way of doing a clean install of Yosemite on my Mac mini be to restart onto the USB 3.0 HDD, erase my mini HDD and install Yosemite on it using one of my saved copies?

     

    Probably the best way. Though you will likely have to do some updating after you install the OS.

     

    One thing to be aware of for the future is that it very difficult to backslush to an older version of the OS if you ever need to. For instance I can't boot into Yosemite and run the Mavericks installer, even if I want to install on a separate drive. The installer just won't run. You have to be booted into Mavericks or earlier to run the Mavericks installer.

  • by Ian R. Brown,

    Ian R. Brown Ian R. Brown Dec 18, 2014 8:57 AM in response to Tom Wolsky
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    Dec 18, 2014 8:57 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

    Thanks Tom.

     

    I always used that method but round about Mountain Lion I read that it would no longer work, which is why I started making USB installers.

     

    I think I may have misunderstood  .  .  .  perhaps they meant that you could not erase and install if the installer was situated on the drive you were erasing  .  .  .  though I can't remember whether that was ever possible.

  • by John Galt,

    John Galt John Galt Dec 18, 2014 9:09 AM in response to Ian R. Brown
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    Dec 18, 2014 9:09 AM in response to Ian R. Brown

    "Erase and install" will work as Apple describes.

     

    Your Mac's firmware will re-create the Recovery partition if you replaced the drive or otherwise eliminated it, which will not occur if you follow their instructions.

  • by LaraCroft_NYC,

    LaraCroft_NYC LaraCroft_NYC Dec 20, 2014 6:09 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1
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    Dec 20, 2014 6:09 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

    DO NOT update to 10.1.4. VERY SLOW rendering. I had to drop back to 10.1.2 to get back my speedy rendering with dedicated SSDs.

  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky Dec 20, 2014 6:17 AM in response to LaraCroft_NYC
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    Dec 20, 2014 6:17 AM in response to LaraCroft_NYC

    This is misinformation. You may have a problem; the vast majority of users do not. Did you update from 10.1.3 BTW?

  • by LaraCroft_NYC,

    LaraCroft_NYC LaraCroft_NYC Dec 20, 2014 7:07 AM in response to Tom Wolsky
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    Dec 20, 2014 7:07 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

    No 10.1.3.    10.1.2 to 10.1.4.

  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky Dec 20, 2014 7:21 AM in response to LaraCroft_NYC
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    Dec 20, 2014 7:21 AM in response to LaraCroft_NYC

    There is almost no change in 10.1.4 from 10.1.3. New codecs. Some fixes. Even the libraries don't update from .3 to .4. So not good to say there's a problem with 10.1.4.

  • by LaraCroft_NYC,

    LaraCroft_NYC LaraCroft_NYC Dec 20, 2014 7:28 AM in response to Tom Wolsky
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    Dec 20, 2014 7:28 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

    10.1.2 to 10.1.4: Library updates

  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky Dec 20, 2014 7:45 AM in response to LaraCroft_NYC
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    Dec 20, 2014 7:45 AM in response to LaraCroft_NYC

    That's right. .3 to .4 library does not update. If you had gone to 10.1.3 you probably would have met the problem you're seeing now. Do you have third party plugins and effects? Many of them needed updating for 10.1.3.

  • by LaraCroft_NYC,

    LaraCroft_NYC LaraCroft_NYC Dec 20, 2014 7:51 AM in response to Tom Wolsky
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    Dec 20, 2014 7:51 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

    I have many third-party plugins and effects...from motionvfx and pixel film studios. All recent, though. Should not require updating.. Both developers automatically notify of required updates.

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