Final Cut Pro version 10.6 extremely slow!!!

@Burnes Hollyman -- The free version of Etrecheck is what's used to help users like you figure out what's going on with their systems.

Currawong wrote:

This will not work. Once you open a library in 10.6, it upgrades the library, and 10.5.4 will refuse to open it.

One alternative is to open a backup version of the library, as already suggested.

Another is to open the library in 10.6, export XML of the library using version 1.9 XML, and then opening that XML in 10.5.4.

Hi, Tom! Yes, glad there are data-only backups. However, my issue is that my media rides with the Library and not on a linked folder. This is because some 90% of my media is AVCHD, and at the time it made sense, on importing, to copy those files to my Library, since I couldn't put my hands on the AVCHD footage as individual files.

If I had to do it all over, I'd import the AVCHD files and then, right away, convert them to Optimized ProRes files, which I could then put on a linkable folder and not copied to the Library And then I'd delete the AVCHD. Too late now, as I have some 32 hours of AVCHD.

So for me, having the data-only backups in 10.5.4 is of no use, since the media is copied — and therefore also updated to 10.6 — to my Library.

The Apple FCP Manual is great, but wish there was also a Best Practices manual to lay out the implications of the many choices we have to make. Those implications are not always obvious in the Manual.

Thanks!

I'm using an Intel iMac from last year. It looks like I'll have to create a new library with the older version and re-import everything that I'm not too far into and re-do it.

The main issue I'm having is when a project is opened, it takes a few minutes to load. It seems that as project complexity increases, the length of time it takes for the initial load goes shooting up.

I have 2 Macs, one is older i5 16 GB RAM with Big Sur, the other is monster M1Max 32GB RAM with Monterey, both face major FCP 10.6 problems (takes extremely long time even for simplest tasks rendering, loading, impossible to use ). The irony is that I just bought a brand new m1max specifically for FCP editing :)

I am one of the older Macs with the problems (2015) using 10.6. I was hoping for a new release. Bottom line? 10.6.1 is out today but unless you meet the new specs, it is the end of the line for you and upgrades. Face it, the old machines served us well. Time to get up to date. My new max tricked-out MacPro will arrive the first week of Dec. and my woes will be gone. So let Saigons be bygones! Good luck!

Complete joke is beyond true. This is the most ridiculous thing ever Apple. Please fix.

I have 4K footage from Sony A7III (simple mp4 files)

playing in a 4K timeline I get audio sync problems with frequencies and beach balls like every single movement. Cut, beach ball, trim, you guessed it. Anything I do.

so what do I do? Scale down and play proxies.

did a 25% proxy and still no good playback. This is almost impossible to work with. Just a joke. Takes nearly five seconds or more to play after I press space or L and takes longer to stop. This is the worst update I’ve ever got.

if I had to keep my object tracking in another program til this bug was worked out, I would have. ****.

My Specs

MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017)

Processor 2.9 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7

Memory 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3

Graphics Radeon Pro 560 4 GB

Intel HD Graphics 630 1536 MB

Storage 44.95 GB Available of 500GB SSD

IS FCP 10.6.1 A FIX FOR ALL THE PROBLEMS OF FCP 10.6.0? Let's bring clarity to this issue.

ONLY FCP 10.6.1 user comments, please. We all appreciate the problems with 10.6.0 which have already been discussed on this thread.

I have been following/commenting on this thread but don't have a complete picture of how the latest FCP 10.6.1 upgrade is performing. Sounds like it is still a mixed picture. We all know 10.6.0 does poorly on machines that don't meet the Apple minimum requirements below as well as some that actually do meet them in some cases.

(See below for Apple's FCP 10.6.1 minimum requirements)

What experiences are users having with the 10.6.1 upgrade who meet or exceed Apple's minimum requirements below?

It seems some say it's better yet others still have problems. Can people provide insights on their 10.6.1 upgrades and state what machine, year, RAM and VRAM, chipset/# of cores (Intel, M1, M1+) you have on your machine? This information is critical for everyone's understanding of what is going on. Again, not interested in 10.6.0 experiences which have been repeatedly reported on here already on this thread. ( I have them as well but I am on a machine that doesn't meet the Apple stated requirements below. The new maxed-out machine is on its way to me).

This might add some clarity to the discussion. If you read the requirements for FCP 10.6.1 from Apple (see below), and don't meet them, then your problems are to be expected and feedback from you is not being requested. Only FCP 10.6.1 users thank you.

But if you DO meet the minimum requirements below and still have problems with 10.6.1 please report them here.

It will help all of us.

FCP 10.6.1 Minimum System Requirements

• macOS 11.5.1 or later
• 4GB of RAM (8GB recommended for 4K editing, 3D titles, and 360° video editing)
• Metal-capable graphics card
• 1GB of VRAM recommended for 4K editing, 3D titles, and 360° video editing1
• 3.8GB of available disk space

Hi All, I reported directly to Apple here: https://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html. I'm in the middle of a miniseries and pulling my hair out. In the activity monitor the CPU percentage that FCP uses shoots up to 100% at any simple operation like dragging a clip. I only have some adjustment layers with some color and LUT info. For the ret no heavy noise reduction puligns or whatsoever. Apple help!

Please use feedback to report what you’re seeing.

Agreed - I do not think it is Monterey. I am on Big Sur (11.6.1) and FCP 10.6 is unusable. Waveforms take hours to load, every edit results in rendering from scratch. This is a complete joke.

There’s should also be a 10.5.4 version of the library on your Time Machine drive.

4k video from GoPro & iPhone. See the progress in instrument

Mine is a 2017 MacBook Pro, 4gb ram on Big Sur. So this problem appears to stretch across different models of hardware as well as OS.

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