Final Cut Pro X is constantly lagging and freezing

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Final Cut Pro X is constantly lagging and freezing

Hi!

I recently purchased the new Mac (2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5, 16 GB Memory, Catalina 10.15.4) and quickly noticed how my programs keep freezing (Photoshop, Final Cut Pro). I make sure to not have any external devices connected to the Mac and close every other application.

When I then use i.e. Final Cut Pro, every single command I do makes the program freeze for at least 20 or 30 seconds. Sometimes the whole program freezes and I have to force quit it.

I keep restarting both program and laptop and it's still the same. I experienced the same problem on my old Mac (Mid 2014) and simply assumed that it's because of its age. I had hoped that my new Mac would be able to handle the programs better. I'm pretty patient, but after a while of trying to work like that even I begin to loose my temper. :-( It's really hard to work like that.

I don't know much about Laptops and Computers, so I'm a little bit of a newbie here.

I hope some of you might know what the problem is!

Melina

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jul 5, 2020 2:46 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 7, 2020 12:37 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Macbook Pro 13'' 2015 too (Model 12,1) ! Everything seems normal and then freezes for 10-20 seconds. Sometimes, hard shutdown is required! Problem while:

Editing videos/ Exporting videos in imovie/fcpx/premiere pro/any editing app
Screenrecording with quicktime
Switching to fullscreen while playing video in safari or switching back from fullscreen.

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Answer 2

Jul 5, 2020 6:18 AM in response to milbrave

What is this new Mac?

If it is a 13" MacBook Pro or 13" MacBook Air from 2020, there is a known problem.

They seem to lag and stall after a few minutes of working in FCP, and only a restart seems to clear things up... until it happens again.

We have to wait until Apple releases a fix for that.

But it looks like there may be something else. Probably you migrated everything from the old mac to the new, and that may have brought along whatever was causing problems.

Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here. Use the "additional text" button and paste the report into the text box:

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milbrave Author

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Jul 5, 2020 6:27 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Hello Luis,

It indeed is a Macbook Pro 13'' from 2020.

It seems all I can do is wait for Apple to fix the problem.

Thank you for the quick answer, it really helped a lot! At least I know I'm not too stupid to use FCP properly, haha.

Best,

Melina

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Answer 4

Jul 5, 2020 6:34 AM in response to milbrave

Does it lag all the time, or just after running ok for a few minutes?

If it lags all the time, then there is something else, and that report I asked for could really help.

I used a 2014 MBP until recently, and it worked very nicely with FCP.

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Answer 5

Jul 6, 2020 6:52 AM in response to milbrave

Then there is not much one can do but wait. It is a known problem that requires an Apple fix (to FCP, to macOS, to the machine firmware or a combination of all of them, only Apple would know). I can tell you that Apple is aware of the problem (even though, as usual, it has not officially acknowledged as such).