FCP 10.5.3 unresponsive

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FCP 10.5.3 unresponsive

Hi,

Since upgrading to FCP 10.5.3 I keep getting the endless spinning ball and FCP becomes unresponsive. I have to force quit.

I'm running FCP on a Mac mini M1 with 16 GB RAM and Big Sur 11.4. Didn't have this problem on the earlier FCP versions.

The EtreCheck report says no major issues found, minor issue is FCP has heavy CPU usage, which I would think is normal?

I reset FCP Preferences, it seemed good for a while then starting freezing up again.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? What should I do?

Thanks for any help you can share :)

Richard

Posted on Jun 24, 2021 11:18 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 24, 2021 12:13 PM in response to RA

In addition to wat Tom said about getting rid of Chrome:

what drive contains your media? You have a 2TB drive with only about 100GB free. That may hurt performance.

Does FCP perform ok if you disconnect the external drives and test with a library in the internal? This may indicate that the drives are the bottleneck.

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Tom Wolsky

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Jun 25, 2021 8:47 AM in response to RA

Test the system on a new admin user. Try it without FxFactory. They might need to update their platform.

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Jun 25, 2021 8:44 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Hi Luis,

I believe that's the Time Machine drive that's only 2 TB, and I've turned that off any way. The external drive where I keep source files and the FCP library is 4 TB with 2.5 TB available.

I've uninstalled Chrome and all its daemons. I uninstalled FxFactory as well. I rebooted and downloaded and installed the latest FxFactory again (I need to use their plugins).

Just now I pasted an audio clip on the timeline, changed my mind and tried to remove it from the timeline and got the spinning ball again.

It's hung... sigh.

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Tom Wolsky

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Jun 24, 2021 11:23 AM in response to RA

Could you copy the report and use the additional text button to paste it here.

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RA Author

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Jun 24, 2021 11:43 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Thanks Tom, appreciate the help :)

I just ran the report again, giving full disk access...

EtreCheckPro report

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Jun 24, 2021 11:58 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Great and thanks!

Will give that a try this evening and get back with an update.

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Tom Wolsky

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Jun 24, 2021 12:31 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Good point. It’s also a spinner, I think, which will add to the lag.

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Jun 25, 2021 5:57 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Thank you for all this excellent feedback. I'm still testing FCP with changes you both suggested and will provide an update this weekend. I'm sure it'll make a difference, will follow-up soon.

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Tom Wolsky

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Jun 24, 2021 11:52 AM in response to RA

Two things. First uninstall Chrome and its keystone daemons. See Chromeisbad for directions. Second, completely uninstall FxFactory. It probably needs an update or at least a reinstalled. You might contact the developer. Start with that and see how it goes. There are a couple other problems in my new build.

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