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Hello,
I imported footage into a project in FCPX. But they start glitching (the clip moves, then stops for less than a second and this for the whole clip). What can I do to stop this?
MacBook Air (2020 or later)
Apple MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020) version 12.2.1, FPX version: 10.6.1. I use the LaCie hard disk and it has over more than 850GB left, so for about 150GB in use.
I saw someone that said you need to change your media to 'optimized' or 'proxy media'. But when I import it like that, the files aren't imported.
I'm importing media from my LaCie drive to FCPX. I click the media import button in FCPX and I select the map with all the footage. Then I click import all. Don't know how else I can import the files?
How is the drive formatted? How is it connected to your mac? This is a hard drive and not an SSD, right? If you create a library and import some media using your ma’s internal drive, I am thinking that it does not suffer from the same problem.
Maybe the drive is slow and not formatted for the mac; FCP does not like drives formatted as FAT or ExFAT.
The drive is formatted in HFS+, it's an HD and is connected with a USB-C. I just formatted my drive to HFS+ because other apple community members said that that was the best option for editing and stuff.
And I could import the media using my macs internal drive, but my mac doesn't have enough storage for these clips, so if it's possible, I would like to import it from my drive. :)
What do you mean by timeframe? The proxy or optimized media doesn’t appear in the application. If there is optimized media available the application will use that. If there is proxy media, and you switch to Proxy Playback in the Viewer, the application will play the available proxy media.
Depending on the specifics of the media and how it’s stored you can use the leave files in place option when importing. Depending on the media the drive maybe not be fast enough for good performance.
So is everyone still piling on how this guy asked the questions are has anyone actually got an answer to why imported footage (proxies especially) become glitchy and unuseable. Having to constantly delete proxies and remake them until FCP decides it will make useable ones is getting old. Also, YOU CAN SEE PROXIES IN THE APP. Just turn all proxies on in browser and you will either see them or the red error box in place of the clip. Sorry for the salt but this is a big problem and every forum post I find is the same roundabout answers with no solutions.
The OP said nothing at all about glitchy or unusable proxies. They seemed to have a problem making proxies or getting them to appear. The description that was given seemed to indicate that they thought the optimized and proxy files would appear as separate items in the application.
I've not seen the problem you're describing reported before. Perhaps you'd like to start again.
We need information.
What mac, OS version, FCP version, what drive has your media, how full is it?
Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here.
Please give complete and exact specifications of your media? Where are you importing from exactly and how?
Saw this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei4x5mXEp6U
It's exactly like that, but the thing is, if I create proxy or optimized media, the footage isn't showing up in my timeframe.. :/
Final Cut Pro X - footage is glitching
