Cannot work with m2ts and mts anymore since FCPX 10.6 update. FCPX freezes.

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Cannot work with m2ts and mts anymore since FCPX 10.6 update. FCPX freezes.

Even though Apple's website still claims that mts and m2ts files are compatible with FCPX 10.6, I cannot work anymore with m2ts and mts files since the last update to FCPX 10.6.

Last week, before the update to 10.6, I was able to add 60+ min M2TS files to my project and edit them without any problem. Now FCPX freezes at the waveform and thumbnail generation. At my last try, FCPX froze for 4+ hr and never came back. I had to Force Quit FCPX every time.

Am the only one having this problem? Thanks.

Macbook Pro 2020 M1 1TB 16 GB Ram ...

Posted on Oct 24, 2021 2:52 AM

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EDGES2

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Oct 26, 2021 4:51 AM in response to mag444

Same issue here. 10.6 will not play my mts files and will not render waveforms. I upgraded to Monterey and the same problem persists. I tried creating optimized files and it was extremely slow. I canceled the render and FCP crashed. I restored a backup of 10.5.4 and restored my library and it worked fine again. 10.5.4 has absolutely no problem with these files. I will try again when they release a patch, but this is unusable for me as it is.

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Tom Wolsky

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Oct 24, 2021 4:15 AM in response to mag444

Couple of things. Get rid of the keystone daemons. I don’t see Chrome but perhaps they’re installed by Google Drive. They’re always trouble in the macOS. Get rid of the LaCie software. If the LaCie is a spinning drive it would probably be better to format in HFS+. Make sure MalwareBytes isn’t running continuously.

The transport stream formats are terrible. Not sure where you’re getting them from. They are a framework used by AVCHD, but they don’t normally appear in that format in the application when importing from a camera card.

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mag444 Author

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Oct 26, 2021 5:32 AM in response to EDGES2

Same here. Everything was working for me with 10.5.4. Hopefully this is a bug and not a planned thing by Apple.

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Tom Wolsky

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Oct 24, 2021 3:00 AM in response to mag444

You’re not the only one with the waveform generation problem but those are in MP4 with AAC audio. The waveform plus thumbnail problem seems unique to transport stream formats. Did you try dumping your cache? Did you try optimizing?

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mag444 Author

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Oct 24, 2021 3:26 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Yes. And transcoding is exceptionally slow. It's night and day. Everything in FCPX became sluggish. My 2020 MBPro feels like my old 2010 MBPro... Thumbnails and Waveforms never goes past 0%. I feel that this won't be solved until a patch is available...

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Tom Wolsky

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Oct 24, 2021 3:25 AM in response to mag444

Please post an EtreCheck report https://etrecheck.com giving the application full disk access in System Preferences. When it finishes the scan, click Share Report and choose "Copy Report.” Use the Additional Text button to paste the report into the reply.

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mag444 Author

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Oct 24, 2021 4:24 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Thanks for the reply! I got thoses files from an Hauppauge HD Video Recorder which I used to capture VHS videos and a TV recorder videos. I guess it’s time to look for another capture solution…

Unless that’s a bug that’ll be adressed in a future patch, I feel that Apple is slowly forcing us to forget this format.

Thanks for everything!

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Tom Wolsky

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Oct 26, 2021 5:46 AM in response to mag444

It may well be planned as transport stream formats are horrible encoding systems designed for acquisition and delivery only. Normally .mts files are embedded in camera card structures and can be imported from there and rewrapped in the process. If the files are from other sources, the files should be converted or rewrapped with other tools like EditReady.

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