Q: Final Cut Pro and iMovie frames are being dropped
Hello so I love to video edit, and I have been doing it for a while now. I have an old MacBook Pro. It is a MacBook Pro from mid 2010. It has a 2.4 GHz Intel Core Duo 2 Processor. It has been working lovely with my iMovie program, until about last November.
On November 2015 my MacBook began to slow down on iMovie. I did not know why it was doing that, and the editing software was working fine, it was just when I play it back, it would drop frames. I was frustrated, however I just worked through it to create videos.
However, in April 2016, I downloaded a trial of Final Cut Pro X, to see if FCPX would not drop frames while I edit videos. However, FCPX is dropping frames when I playback, and it makes editing difficult. I thought it was because I had no more RAM, but when I checked, I only used 2GB of storage, since I dont really download anything besides small videos.
FCPX and iMovie both drop frames too much, and it is inconvenient. Can somebody please help?
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Posted on May 25, 2016 4:30 PM