FCP 10.6 macOS Monterey SLOW & NOT RESPONDING!

Same with me. I have Minstaller and Addmotion on. I realized recent libraries (only a few projects) loading time is ok.

And very intriguing an older (from last year) library with 74 gb loaded comparatively fast (10 Minutes) compared to a more recent lib with 5 gb (18 min). Maybe its true with the plugins because last year I did not have addmotion i did not have these plugins installed and therefore had no projects with it.....hmmm

Now guys please report this to Final Cut Feedback page (Final Cut Pro menu - Provide Final Cut Pro Feedback). No-one at Apple is likely to read this thread. We need to file this to their dedicated feedback page, and just work as their beta testers, or rather instead of them, since they seem to have preferred to forego testing of FCP on Monterey completely

Here we go for another day of catastrophe!

Can I jump in again and start by saying that I am not using any HDD. All my asset is held on the 2 Gb SSD, which should give max speed?

After my attempt at multi-cam editing last night, the rendering seems to have happened, but I was left with a background task of re-coding which just stuck at 6%. So I went to bed and left it, but this morning still 6% and FCP not responding, so no option but to force quit. Now the FCP (10.6.1) won't load at all.

Looks like I shall be removng FCP and re-installing.

I just need to get on with the job.

I'm having the same issue since updating, plus it seems to be a 50/50 chance whether tracking will crash Final Cut all together.

Was fine when I updated just Final Cut, but these issues all appeared after updating to Monterey, running on a few month old M1 MacBook Pro that used to be lighting fast.

Daily FCP user here on MacBook Pro M1 16gb. Having exactly same issues, NO external plug-ins. Monterey has killed the workflow in FCP for me. Before the upgrade timelines would load practically instantly. Now 30 seconds and spinning wheel. So Apple get off your &^*# and fix this, do not start blaming unsupported plug-ins because I am using it by the book per pre-described Apple doctrine.

Natch, sorry to hear that. Another thing that is true for me is that machines that have updated to Monterey that do not have the T2 chip seem to be unaffected. I don't know if the Discussions board hive mind has any thoughts on this but I have a few older MBPs that run Monterrey without any slow down whereas iMac Pros do have it bad.

I was in the middle of a multi-cam edit when Monterey was installed. It killed my FCP 10.6 making it too slow to use, minutes instead of seconds. Many times just crashing, with the dreaded 'Wheel-of-Death' spinning away.

I tried re-installing an earlier version of FCP, but that did not help. I had the IMac checked out, and no hardware problems were found. What am I going to do??? I have a deadline and no hopes of finishing the edit.

Thanks Apple. How about a Fix mega-quick ??

I have the same issue. All was well with FCP 10.6 until I installed Monterey. Now I have horrible load time for projects. I'm on a Mac Pro 2019 (MacPro7,1). I have project libraries on an external SanDisk Extreme Pro, and an internal NVMe raid, and both have project load times around 5 minutes or more. For plugins I have FxFactory, and MotionVFX (mInstaller), and BeautyBox. I saw another user report having mInstaller as well, so I tried disabling that, but it made no difference. I hope we can come up with a solution quickly, as this has really slowed my production.

Same problems. Monterey, slow project load and very sluggish clip navigation, beach balling consistently but OK with timeline content and OK when working with a loaded clip! Feels like a GUI/DB issue.

Have you tried exporting as a master file, same as source, then transcoding?

Fixed with update!

Same. Monterey slowed FCP on my MacBook Pro (M1 16gb 1tb) waaaay down. Codecs aren't playing smoothly anymore and the load times for jobs is very slow. Add on top of that some jobs won't let me duplicate projects.

Fixes appreciated Apple - especially with my MacBook Pro M1 Maxed Out coming soon. Thanks!

Same here. MBP M1 16gb 1TB that used to run fast and smooth. I updated to the new FCP and everything was as fine as before but since I updated to Monterey I am struggling with the same problems as people describe here. And with many deadlines coming this week…

Hope it’s solved soon, some could think that now we have to upgrade to a PRO or Max to keep editing as we used…

Same issue here, it's like going back 15 years when projects took so long to open that I went to make a coffee. Apple needs to fix this, it's eating into studio time. Will I update early next time, don't think so... Watch the forums first for issues.

Running Mac Mini M1 (16Gb Ram), Lacie Big 6 on 4K project.