Final Cut Pro not working

If you know the answer why are you asking me the question? Are you speaking for the masses then? It does not work for me and it does not work for the poster and I spoke to apple and others are having the same issue and deleting preferences will not solve the issue so please stop giving advice that is not fit for purpose.

Es decir.. es mejor no actualizar a Monterrey..

Actualmente tengo fc 10.6 en big sur y funciona muy bien. Pero no he querido actualizar a Monterrey por temor a que no corra fc bien... Es mejor esperar?.

Welcome to the forum @ripleyripley. Speaking of valuable advice, one thing I wasn't aware of when I first started here was how the Points system work. Points are (primarily) earned by a contributor when a user who posts a problem marks it as solved by that contributor. You can see that many, many, (many!) users have credited Luis and Tom with solving their issues. I don't know where they find the hours in the day to volunteer their time to help so many FCP users and want to thank them again for all their hard work!

Hey Terry and thank you, hopefully at some point I can attribute their help to a success on my end, till then at this point I'm left with a deadline and an app not fit for purpose, hopefully we get an update soon.

Once I am loaded after a 6 minute wait it works but it is my plugins that only randomly work, the same plug in on one clip works while on the next it doesn't and when I restart plugins that do work no longer work.

Another great example to follow macOS steps on solving this problem. I wonder why Apple let it happen in first place! Other video editing suites are working bug-free ... If you please let us know when Monterey is not bugging FCP anymore! Thanks!

Just letting you all know. This is NOT an answer. Running Mac Book Pro M1 16gb with no issue until now. Tried deleting the preferences but all it has causes is more hassle as I need to reset everything up whereas the actual issue is still there. So very slow loading events and timelines. Once they are open, they load fast as usual until the next time you start up FCP. Annoys me that IT people think just restart the computer and/or delete settings will solve all the issues. Is not the case. It will require actual programming and effort to solve this issue. In the meantime I am sticking to Big Sur. Bye bye Monterey.

Just following the answer suggested at the top of this post. But the issue is not the application (alone), I know for a fact since I was on the latest version already and all was great until I upgraded to Monterey. Don't know don't care whether it is the OS or the combination with the app.. That's for the experts to figure out and fix. And fix they will, just hope sooner rather than later.

Haha! That's me too. The thought of going back and restoring Big Sur. But it is just more than I'm willing to tackle right now. I'd rather just tough it out until an update comes. I'm tempted to try the Monterey betas but I suspect it will require a fix to Monterey and FCP.

I'm having similar issues. I have a large stable FCPX library that is a large feature doc edit with 13 TB of clips external and the library is over 4 Gigs with about 150 events and many projects. I sent a cloned drive to an editor and her's is very very slow and stuck loading.... 4 days of trying everything and it is still rarely get beyond loading after hours and hours.

My system that is what this entire edit had been being worked on from is a macbookpro Mid 2015, 2.5 GHZ i7, 16 GB ram, AMD Radeon R9 2 GB, running macOS Big Sur, 11.6.1 with FCPX 10.6 it is stable and loads fast, like in a minute. then click on something, and it takes another minute or two, loading... then it runs quite well.

I sent a clone drive (G-Tech 20 TB with 5 TB free) with a duplicated library on it to a remote editor. She moved the library to the desktop and has the CACHE going to a separate drive. It opens and all the media is there linked, all path names are identical, but it typically takes hours stuck loading. sometimes finally opening, other times, after hours, a force quit is done, because it just stays stuck "loading"

The machine that is really slow and stalling is running Monterey 12.0.1 and FCPX 10.6. The machine is an iMac late 2015, 4GZ quad core intel core i7, 32 GB ram and an AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4 GB.... So the machine is much faster, more ram, faster graphics card with more memory. We tried the entire list of 12 items from the apple site, like trashing preferences, reseting NVRAM and so on, (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203477) reinstalled FCPX. I sent a new Library, with render files deleted, as a disk image, encrypted and compressed then sent by a google drive upload... still the same. Not working. Sent a small library that contains just one event of the big library, and that opens and operates fine. All clips link to the external drive without issue.

Monterey says it wants an Autumn 2015 iMac. Hers is late 2015. Some say Monterey could be the problem. It seems a pain to get her system back to Big Sur. But could that do the trick? Have to wipe the drive clean and start over with Big Sur. The last system was Catalina so there isn't a time machine back up of Big Sur, but seems like this should be tried?

Any ideas? Thanks!

It's comforting to know that I'm not the only one with serious Final Cut Pro issues. A whole library of work on an external hard drive and I have never seen Final Cut crash so much, tried all the troubleshooting in the world. Nothing is working. It will open some files without a problem and not open others. It will hum along for a bit and then if I import a png file it will give me the spinning ball of death. I love Final Cut, but this is enough to make me try Premiere.

I've used Final Cut Pro since version 4, and I can't quite believe this.

I shall never trust another Mac update again.

Over two weeks I've been waiting and I still cannot use Final Cut after the Monterey disaster.

We depend on our videos, so I have no alternative but to find an application that works (if I can).

I feel totally let down.

This will doubtless be deleted, but I had to say something, I'm so angry.

I feel the same way to and the issue has not been documented anywhere but here. I have never updated this quickly and paid a great price for it, you get the feeling they care about the M1 users and no one else and they certainly aren't rushing to fix the issue. Im starting to rediscover Adobe PP.

And what's been done about it in all those weeks, Tom?

There are people here who are unable do their jobs because of this fiasco.

It's shattered my faith in Apple. We've spent many thousands of pounds (UK) with apple over the past twenty years, and you can't help feeling they don't care about computers and professional software any more. Only phones and tablets.

I'm just another unhappy user like you. We're all just FCP users here. No one on this forum can delete anything. Only the moderators can. I have no idea what you wrote, but I guess it was something that violated the terms of use. I certainly didn't delete it or have anything to do with getting your message deleted.

Mac support is enormous. The only ones who really know about the problems are in pro apps support.