Final Cut Pro not working

Just delete your preferences Tom you'll be all right and I will pass on your message to apple complaints!

There are specific issues with the software. If yours is completely not working it may be due to a specific set of circumstances. We should not all assume everyone who is having a problem with the software has the same problem, primarily because not every is, and there are specific instances of specific media types, like MPEG-4 with AAC, that are creating more of a problem which are not impacting users of RED or Canon RAW or MXF or XAVC or most QuickTime formats. There may be other problems, and probably more that will be found in the next weeks. Typically bug updates take three to five weeks.

This is happening to lots of people across various Facebook groups and FCP.co forum. Its been a disaster of an update - I think something connected to the WAVEFORMS AND THUMBNAILS not drawing, plus AAC audio files. I have all of my AAC audio now RED in the timeline and waveforms sporadically disappear and then hitting play stops working. Projects / Events / Libraries take forever to load up. When they eventually do - editing is ok, until I try to open up another library / event and then it all happens again. Disaster of a week for me.

My large library is unusable. When you have too many clips or projects in an event, even clicking the event will crash the app.

So new projects in a new library is a workable solution for the moment. Although there are lots of hickups after everything opened...

Had my last comment removed due to it “being a rant”.

So here is a comprehensive list of issues I’ve experienced whilst using 10.6 on both 2019 MBP 16 Ram i9 and M1 Mac Mini 16 GB Ram

1. Takes 45 minutes to open a library
2. Takes 30 minutes to duplicate project
3. 60 seconds to copy and paste
4. Freezes when exporting before force quit
5. Freezes when attempting to rename a project
6. Can’t scrub smoothly
7. Can’t drag and drop into timeline
8. Constant Freezing
9. Cannot downgrade projects to 10.5 in order to deliver/Share
10. Cannot send to compressor
11. 60 Minutes to load 1 Project

adnanfromfairfax wrote:

What is Etrecheck? And how do you run it? You gotta give clear directions.

Etrecheck is a diagnostic utility by a respected member of this community.

It is used many times here every day to let those who are trying to assist know about possible software issues in the affected user's mac.

You can download Etrecheck from its website.

Run the application, and it will produce a report on your setup.

Click Share Report->Copy Report, then you can post it in a reply here using the "Additional text" button under the message area here.

You bought it preinstalled? Did you go to the App Store and link your Apple ID to the software? That needs to be done first. Log in with your Apple ID and see if it appears in the Purchased page. You may have to contact support for the App Store. Preinstalling is a major pain.

This does not work, I spoke to apple support today and they are aware of the problem and are working on a fix! So run Etrecheck or anything else at this point your wasting your time!

MacPro 2019 and iMac 2019 - 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.

I had all those issues. Only got it running again by going bay to Big Sur.

Its a good idea to delete preferences before opening up old libraries - but this seems promising.

You have that awful "cleanmymac". Any mac that has been tainted by this is likely to require a clean install.

ripley ripley wrote:

It is an operating issue.

Are you claiming that FCP 10.6 does not work in Monterey?

It does work. There are issues for some users, as usual with a new version of the app and the OS, but there are many users already working with it.

That's our experience too. After upgrading an iMac Pro (2017) to Monterey, FCP 10.6 takes about 3-4 minutes to load a FCP library. Super frustrating. Then when I click on an event, it takes about 1-2 minutes to load it. After that, I can use it normally. But any new event in the library takes 1-2 minutes to load the first time. This is a MAJOR loss of productivity and should be fixed soon, I hope. Makes me regret upgrading to Monterey on this machine.

Im shocked at how long they Apple have let this go on, this is not a little issue it makes the app unusable. Even when I try and add an audio effect it crashes, sometimes when I open it all my plugins are there the next time I get red box missing plugins.