Final Cut Pro not working

It's still an issue because it's not been fixed. I have no idea what it takes to get it fixed, but considering the size and complexities of the problems that have been reported, I'm sure it's going to take more than a week or two to rewrite a couple of million lines of code. I'm not hysterical about this, however much it ****** me off, because I've been around the editing software rodeo for a long, long time, going back to when it first started.

Coincidentally, I have recently started using DaVinci Resolve alongside Final Cut Pro and find it absolutely mind-blowing.

Once more I have full control of everything, I'm also free to make mistakes (!) and there is no need to make roundtrips to apps like Logic, Compressor and Motion, not that I ever do much of that!🙄

Colour correction and chromakeying are on another level.

If I want good results in a hurry, Final Cut Pro is unbeatable but for pure editing power and choice, DVR is way out on top.

How Apple can continue charging £250 for FCP when DVR is free is somewhat bewildering.

Of course anyone paying Adobe upwards of £20 per month must be out of their minds.

I have grown very used to FCP and that is why I forked out the cash for buying it. But if software is unusable then one must look elsewhere. And DVR sounds like a good alternative. Curious what people make of Premiere Pro. Back in another lifetime when I still used Windows that was my software of choice. I also find it a steep price but that is more principle than any real budget issue. Afraid it is my loss, doubt Apple would resubstitute my investment. Looking forward to leaning a new software, bound to learn new skills in the process.

I have similar issues. Deleting preferences doesn't work. Transcoding gets stuck. Everything is slow. Tried creating new library still same issues. Slow slow slow. Im not sure I'd Apple realizes that creators have deadlines and budgets.

So true. plugins which used to work with 13 inch macbook pro m1 don't work anymore. Does Apple not share their new design with vendors or the vendors are not compatible? I will try keeping other projects open.

I appreciate them fixing it, but I wouldn’t really say nearly a month was particularly quick! Having to downgrade to Big Sur to make it work was a massive ball ache and a huge loss of production time. It’s my own fault for automatically upgrading to Monterey without really thinking, but I really shouldn’t have to think about Apple‘s own software compatibility with its own operating systems.

I just downloaded 10.6.1 and even though the transcoding went okay but export was terribly slow as much as 3X of Big Sur. So its still very painful. Thank you apple. :-( I hope we are not becoming Microsoft.

It’s much better but I’m still experiencing slow load times for projects and libraries. Several minutes to open a project.

and also when copying and pasting certain things, in this case it took a few minutes to paste an image. I’m wondering if 6.1 is being considered as the complete fix or if they’re going to improve on this.

Yea done. But I’ve just option > ]

an adjustment layer to trim it (I sometimes use these to set I/O points

for export.

and it’s been 20 minutes of spinning wheel. So I’m gonna guess 6.1 hasn’t completely fixed the loading issues.

I'm not yet convinced that 10.6.1 has fixed the problems. There seem to still be problems on this forum and Facebook FCPX groups. I also saw the guy from Midland Pictures on YouTube still having issues with audio waveforms. He actually seemed to think it had fixed the slow rendering, but it looked painfully slow to me. My M1 Max arrives next Monday, so I'll try it on that before I upgrade my production environment from Big Sur to Monterey. Something tells me this isn't everything fixed. On the release notes for 10.6.1, there's no mention at all about Monterey, and that's the only differing factor on my system as far as I know.

Copying the last working version of my large library to a separate drive as long as Time Machine has it.

Who knows how long they need to fix this fiasco. And Time Machine has not proven to be very reliable in the past either...

Libraries and projects are much faster to work with and loading times are much better. I'm still getting some random crashes though. 2 in the past hour. 1 just dragging a clip, 1 while playing back an mp4 file. So not sure what's going on, but clearly more work to do. At least I've managed to do some editing today!

It is not working for me as well. ! apparently it opens after sometime, then when i try to open any library it freezes .. I have work to do this week I can't wait for this and this is my only workstation :((((

Millions of people are using FCP and iMovie in Monterey.

You say you "lost" FCP and iMovie, and it seems that you have a thread about that; I hope you get it sorted out.

For most users it was a rather smooth upgrade, despite the normal bugs of an initial version.

Final Cut is still broken! Started libraries from scratch. When I move multiple projects to another library it sometimes crashes and then the projects are in the final library folder but not listed in Final Cut.

You then need to restore from old FCP backups... and even after that one those libraries is now behaving like the old 10.5 libraries.