Fcp 10.6.3 freeze on big projects

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Pod770 Author

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Fcp 10.6.3 freeze on big projects

Hello everyone,

my FCP is freezing a lot on big projects …

i have constantly to divise the project in 2 or 3 to avoid the problem…

i have a MacBook Pro 16 M1Max, 64go ram

i’m working on one project, on an external ssd of 2to, formated in Mac OS, 1.6 TO of videos all in h265 (some from Sony As3 4:2:2 10bit, some from Sony a7c, Dji mavic pro, canon r6).

everytime i have a timeline of more than 20/30 minutes (not a lot of effects, some transitions, a LUT from colorfinale), it begins to freeze randomly. Sometimes when I want to copy an effect between to vids, sometimes when I open another project, sometimes when I copy a bunchs of vids from a place to another. Then I have to hard quite, and when I restart it can work normally for 5/6 mins or more, or freeze immediately when I’m doing the action again.

So I have to make projects of 20/30 mins, then bind them together to have my one big projects of 2/3h each.

The library itself always is at 50gb approximately (I erase render files because I don’t want the SSD of 2To to be full)

I have no freezes on export

I don’t have chrome

The only thing I have « bad » is cleanmymac which I only use for the app telescope who can tell when the cache of my dropbox is taking too much space.

This is a really big project, but I know fcp will act the same on other smaller projects when I have a timeline of more than 1 hour

I use fcpx from the first hour, I never had this kind of problems before passing on the m1max …

Do you think putting the library on the internal drive and letting the videos on the external drive can help ?

(I’ll try on the next project)

It’s so frustrating and making me loose a lot of time !

Thank you so much for your help

Ps : sorry for my English, I am French

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 12.4

Posted on May 22, 2022 11:39 PM

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Answer 1

May 23, 2022 12:24 AM in response to Pod770

Whenever there is a crash you need to delete FCP preferences.

It is possible that cleanmymac has borked your system.

How much free space is there on the system drive?

Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here.

Use the “additional text” button and paste the report into the text box.

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Answer 2

May 23, 2022 1:02 AM in response to Pod770

In summary: you have disabled system security, and are running cleanmymac all the time.

These are two things that you should fix.

Most of us here consider cleanmymac to be malware, and we have seen my systems borked by it.

Security updates disabled - Security updates are disabled. This computer is at risk of malware infection.

Apple security disabled - Apple security software is disabled. This computer is at risk of malware infection.

This is never a good idea.

Unsigned Files:

Running app: /Applications/CleanMyMac X.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/CleanMyMac X Menu.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/CleanMyMac X HealthMonitor.app

Running app: /Library/DropboxHelperTools/Dropbox_u501/dbkextd

Login Item: /Applications/CleanMyMac X.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/CleanMyMac X Menu.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/CleanMyMac X HealthMonitor.app

Login Item: /Applications/CleanMyMac X.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/CleanMyMac X Menu.app

Having this creepy thing running all the time... ouch!

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Answer 3

Tom Wolsky

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May 24, 2022 2:11 AM in response to Pod770

You probably need to do a clean install after you remove CMM. The application has damaged the system for pro apps. Clean install means wiping the drive. Reinstall the OS. Migrate only the users. Install FCP and gray from there. .

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Answer 4

May 23, 2022 11:34 PM in response to Pod770

Have you tried restarting your Mac?

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Answer 5

Tom Wolsky

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May 23, 2022 4:35 AM in response to Pod770

For a more granular view of your drive space I would recommend Daisy Disk. Also Final Cut Library Manager to see and control space used by FCP.

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Answer 6

May 23, 2022 4:11 AM in response to Pod770

You don't need CMM to show you your big files as the Mac already has an inbuilt system.

Select About This Mac from the Apple menu and click on Storage.

Wait a minute or two whilst everything on your computer is listed.

Then click Manage and the image in the second screenshot will appear with the places containing all your folders and files displayed on the left.

Click on any of them. My example shows Podcasts and there is only one. If I had clicked on Documents there would have been hundreds with the largest files being at the top of the list.

You can then work your way through them and delete those you no longer need.

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Answer 7

Pod770 Author

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May 23, 2022 12:55 AM in response to Pod770

Thanks

I already have deleted FCP preferences few days ago.

i have NEVER used cleanmymac to delete automatically files, do an analysis system and all that thing that clean my Mac can do really wrong (I had bad times with old macs with CMM, so I really know that I cannot use it), I really just use it like a finder. It shows me big folders on my system and I only eras manually de Dropbox cache once a while. That’s all.

on the system drive I have more than 600go

FCP has full disk access

here is the etrecheck :

EtreCheck

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Answer 8

Pod770 Author

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May 23, 2022 1:18 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

ok I'll get rid of clean my Mac right now.

I'm constantly working with Dropbox, so I cannot get rid of it.

for the updates, I check every time manually.

i do it like that because DropBox had a problem with the last update, so I unchecked the security updates just for the time Dropbox makes an update for there app. but it is ok now.

So i have checked back the security and apple security updates.

Also, the external SSD is in thunderbolt 3

Write is at 1500 MB/s

Read at 2600 MB/s

Etrecheck V2 :

etrecheck V2

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Answer 9

Pod770 Author

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May 23, 2022 4:16 AM in response to Ian R. Brown

Thank you ! I thought it was only to see documents, but I found there how to see also folders. thanks

i erased this morning CMM, but I still having the same issue.

I already did a clean install of FCP few days ago when I updated to 10.6.3

and I did not used an old Time Machine save of my Mac when I received my new MacBook Pro.

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Answer 10

May 23, 2022 4:23 AM in response to Pod770

The name Documents is a bit misleading as it contains all your iMovie/FCP Libraries and any other videos etc. on your computer . . . in fact it contains most of the big files you will have.

It has nothing to do with your Documents Folder.

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