Final Cut Pro not working

Try completely uninstalling cmm. You have to follow their instructions for doing it. It is NOT enough to drag it to the trash.

In addition, you also have Chrome - a well known enemy of video and professional applications.

Completely uninstall Chrome and its "keystone" daemons and agents - see https://chromeisbad.com for why and how.

Once you have done that, you will need to drag FCP to the trash, and download a fresh copy from the App Store.

Thanks Luis and Tom!

It was CleanMyMac, uninstalled completely, reboot, uninstalled FPC and re-installed FCP and it works!

Thanks so much!

You can actually just download older versions of Final Cut directly from the App Store, which I did. It didn’t work. It’s Final Cut under Monterey that’s the issue, including 10.5.4. I had to go back to a time machine backup of Big Sur to get a stable production environment. Usually these software issues are easier to deal with because you can just uninstall and reinstall an older version. When it’s the OS that needs to be downgraded, that’s a real pain and very time consuming. Which is why I’m so upset with Apple about this.

Last week I updated to Monterey and FCP to 10.6 version, same issues about long waits on project loading and crashing all the time. Yesterday I rolled back my MacBook Pro 16" 2019 to Big Sur, reinstalled FCP 10.6 and it's working fast as usual. Problem solved till Apple addresses this conflict. If anyone know of a better work around, please share!

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Hi inkwellspring,

I did everything in all the blogs and from apple's website and spent hours with an apple FCPX expert (free) and she was unwilling to recommend going back from Monterey to Big Sur. FCPX had been taking hours to open and do anything meaningful in a previously very stable library in High Sierra. We made the big mistake too of upgrading during an edit. We finally got three machines all back to Big Sur, and everything worked again. And that was a pain, because apple doesn't make it easy, but a good tech person did it for us. Jim

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Did you update FCP to version 10.6?

Older versions might not work in Monterey. Which version do you have?

I figured it out thanks. I had to go to APpstore and instead of open click on updates and it was there. Thanks! Now lets see if it works or breaks anything else??

I had the same problem with my MacBook Pro M1 with Monterey, I deleted Final cut preferences with the command + option, worked fine

cheers

Oh, that's rough. Hopefully Apple comes out with a fix shortly but it's possible it could be several more weeks. No way for us users to know.

It might not be feasible if you've done a lot of work in the library but is it possible to export an XML from 10.6 of your current work and bring that into a library backup from before you updated to 10.6? (~/Movies/Final Cut Backups/) Both 10.5.4 and 10.6 can live in the Applications folder, just rename the older one to something like Final Cut Pro 10.5.4.app before moving it in there.

My libraries (that used to take seconds to load) now take between 15 and 30 minutes to load.

In a streamed console window (as per the suggestion in the replied to post), I got 230,000 errors/faults just while opening Final Cut and the library! No wonder it's slow.

I'm editing with a client next week and it's going to be embarrassing to have to say, hold on while my otherwise fast MacBook Pro 16" takes half an hour to load your project. I hope Apple updates either Final Cut or Monterey or both asap.

I've tried the usual stuff like resetting FC settings, reinstalling FC and so on. I even rolled back to 10.5.4 on Monterey and had the same issues. I've run SSD First Aid, rebooted in safe mode, removed CurrentVersion.flexolibrary to rebuild the library database (or whatever it does), removed individual events manually from the bundle and replaced, removed render files manually, removed all plugins from the Movies - Motion Templates folder, run an Etre Check report (nothing major), and nothing helps.

Once the library or event loads, editing is more or less normal, although it is a bit slower than before.

The only thing that didn't have a problem was an older MBP 13 with Big Sur 11.5.2 on it. This was absolutely fine with the same libraries using both FC 10.6 and 10.5.4.

I think this is a Monterey problem. Or at least a Final Cut with Monterey problem, and not necessary a Final Cut v 10.6.

Rolling back to Big Sur is the only way I could fix this on my system. Tried everything. You can download Big Sur installer from the App Store and create a bootable usb to install.

Rolling back to Final Cut 10.5.4 won’t help.

I agree with Luis. CleanMyMac has likely already damaged the system. You should do a system super and reinstall of the OS , my only the user data and reinstalling the apps. Do not install CleanMyMac and do not install Chrome.

Rollback to FCP 10.5.4 from your TimeMachine backup until 10.6.x is released.