Beach Ball in Apple Motion on every click

Try validating all your installed fonts. Both Motion and FCPX will choke (usually crash) on problem fonts.

FWIW, this EtreCheck isn't really that useful. It looks like it mostly dumps out a system profile and some activity monitor information. I'd star with these questions.

1. Is it literally every click with a new project, or is this an existing project? What are the exact steps to trigger the hang.
2. Do you have 3rd party filters that are installed and up-to-date?
3. Are you working with Text? If you are, have you made sure that you don't have any corrupt fonts?
4. Have you tried booting in Safe Mode?
5. Are you manually deleting the preferences or using the command-option keys at startup to delete the prefs and additional base config files?

A better report to try is a process sample. Launh Activity Monitor and start using Motion. In Activity Monitor, type Motion into the search field to filter it. Then select it in the list. Now start working in Motion to trigger the hang. When the hang occurs (assuming these are lasting more than a few seconds, Go to the Activity Monitor window and click the gear dropdown and select "Sample Process". Wait for this to run and then save the result. Try posting this. It would also be worth sending this to Apple. Of course send them as much detail as you can about the exact steps you took. As Luis pointed out, trying a clean install could be another way to check, you could also try making a new user account and try running from that to see if it hangs. Both of these would help determine if it might be a hardware or install issue.

Truth be told, some of the fonts that come with FCPX/Motion (examples: Coolvetica, Duality, Franklin Gothic Demibold) have minor problems (all involving 'htmx table') and they work okay. Try removing it from Font Book, restart Motion and see if you have the same problems. If you don't, see if you can find a better version of the font.

However... looking at the font on DaFont.com, that is a *very complicated* font to render even for other apps, not just Motion. If you're trying to render this in 3D, I'm sure Motion would be having "fits"!

One other thing to try is to do a clean install on a separate drive, install just Motion and see how that performs.

Even with an external SSD, it should all work without hiccups.

There is nothing obviously wrong in the report; your mac should work fly.

A few thoughts:

I am not familiar with this Wipr application, it seems to be a blocker of stuff.

I wonder if it is blocking things that Motion needs...

Also: I suggest you test without the Samsung external SSD attached, just to see if they are having any impact.

You're welcome! Glad you worked it out! Happy New Year!

Do you have Chrome in this mac?

It has been shown to cause severe problems with professional applications.

There could also be other software issues. Your mac should work buttery smoothly with Motion.

Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here.

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