16" M1 Max MBP - Memory Leak after opening FCPX
I work in Final Cut almost daily and today ran into an issue where FCPX started heavily crashing with little to no effort or work on my new M1 Max MBP. I looked at activity monitor and noticed FCPX is using ALOT of memory and eventually after a few minutes of just being open, not even editing, it gives me an error that I need to force quit the app as it has run out of application memory.
Having just edited the same project a few days ago - and not installing any additional plugins or anything over the past few days I'm really unsure how or why this issue started but i'm trying to get to the root of it as it is certainly impeding my ability to work. I know moving over from my old Mac to this one I do get warnings about out of date plugins - so I'm not sure if its any of these. I'd love to find and fully remove these if possible but tracking them down and fully removing them is quite the challenge as I dont know where some of these get installed/are stored.
I have tried to delete render files for the project I was in as well as cleared and reset preferences on opening up FCPX and the issue persists.