Final Cut Pro version 10.6 extremely slow!!!

Your system drive is full. Minimum 10%, better 15% free space.

Post an Etrecheck report from https://etrecheck.com, which will provide information about what might be going on. Use the "Additional text" button at the bottom of the reply box to paste the report. 

Please post an Etrecheck report from https://etrecheck.com, which will provide information about what might be going on. Use the "Additional text" button at the bottom of the reply box to paste the report. 

To All on this thread, here's a video I found where our Canadian friend demonstrates many of the issues we're encountering:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y0Bv_M7X2E

As Tom and Terry said, run Etrecheck and post its report here so we can help.

You should completely uninstall Google Chrome.

Also Clean My Mac may have “cleaned” too much.

Can you do a Clean Install of you OS on an external drive, boot from that and test FCPro there?

Al

Yes, I installed FCP 10.6 on both OSs, Big Sur is still good, takes 5 seconds. Two of my other MBPs on Monterey take between 5 to 10 minutes loading library in FCP.

I just upgraded to the MacOS 12.1beta, unfortunately, this issue is still there. I think Monterey 12.0 is good, but 12.0.1 is not.

This is the worst update to FCP in a long time. Rendering a 7 minute file takes 5 times as long as before. I am also getting dropped frames in playback, something that has never happened before. I am still on Big Sur so it is not an OS issue. Very disapointed.

@TransGoJobot, Thank you very much for reporting the findings of your testing. If you haven't already, please also send this to Apple so the FCP team has more data points to fix the issue. https://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html

Ok but others are also having this issue. I would definitely agree my performance is abnormal, however, it’s possible there have been a couple of folks having this same issue. May do a hard reinstall of fcp. Sometimes that is a good fix.

my main goal was just to promote it’s a thing. Kinda like all those people who have abnormal **** downs on their M1 Mac. Yes it’s abnormal, but doesn’t mean it’s not happening to folks.

just like my iPhone X … abnormal green screen, or the iPhone 6 Plus, abnormal for a phone to bend but it did. See what I mean. Lol

MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016)

2.9 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7

16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3

Radeon Pro 460 4 GB - Metal Compliant

Same issues in FCP 10.6 as well as 10.6.1

Extremely long load times and very long audio waveform render times. Stripped FCP 10.6.1 down to the bare bones removing all plugins and effects both video and audio. No change.

Mac OS 12.01 and even something higher.

Working on FCP 10.6.1

2020 M1 Macbook pro

16Gb ram

Mac Os Monterey (12.0.1)

Even now the FCP is working very sluggish, even a single 1080p 30 fps video on timeline gives frame skipping. Scrubbing in the timeline is very slow. Rendering takes ages to finish. An 8-minute video with some simple cut in 1080p 30fps with h.264 took around 30 mins to render out (Not exaggerating, literally happened) Give the Color wheel even for Extending the Clip's endpoints. I don't know what more issue it should have, Very disappointed updating it.

Hi all,

The slow rendering issue can make FCP really useless. It is a scandal.

I have a brand new Mac Pro 2019 with 2x graphic cards, 96 GB RAM etc. I am working with thunderbolt 2 and 3 drives and a SATA drive via thunderbolt adapter (I never use more than 70% of a disk). This combination works very well for me. I have worked with a Mac Pro (Late 2013 = cylinder) since years and was very happy with FCPX in last years. I am waiting since 1,5 hour right now for rendering+exporting of a 1 hour 1080p movie (yes, with a lot of FX, etc.) and it is now at 63%. This is really unacceptable and far more than frustrating. As I've said, the machine is new, I have installed everything clean. Even with new downloads from AppStore etc.. My experience (I am editing since mid 1990s and working with FCP since 7.) whispers to my ear that the issue has nothing to do with filled up disks or some FX or some file formats. This is directly related to FCP. (It is now 1h 45 min and rendered is 66% of the 1h timeline!)

Sorry for the long message.

umit

Well I ran etrecheck and it seems that Final Cut crashes and maybe Colourfinale could be the culprit but I'm no whizz kid when it comes to looking at all that computer jargon

Guess colour finale pluggin is a good place to start

There should be a database backup created at the time the library was updated. It’s in your backups folder.

What I’m saying is if it’s software it can be fixed. If it’s hardware we can’t help. But I don’t think it’s hardware. Usually the first place to start is with an EtreCheck report.