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I am using my brand new 14" M1 MacBook Pro to edit a wedding video with 2 1080p clips in the Multicam editor and it lags almost as much as my old 2014 MacBook. This is the one reason I bought this laptop, what is going on??
I'm using a 2021 14 inch MacBook pro with the M1 Pro Chip, 16GB of memory.
MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 12.5
bradencw Said:
"Brand new MacBook M1 Pro can't handle 1080p Multicam editing??: I am using my brand new 14" M1 MacBook Pro to edit a wedding video with 2 1080p clips in the Multicam editor and it lags almost as much as my old 2014 MacBook. This is the one reason I bought this laptop, what is going on?? I'm using a 2021 14 inch MacBook pro with the M1 Pro Chip, 16GB of memory."
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Troubleshooting Lagging Apps:
Redownload this app. It may be a corrupt install.
Troubleshooting a Lagging Mac:
A. Try Safe Mode:
In Safe Mode, login items do not run, and corrupt system files(i.e. caches) are intentionally reset as a way to fix issues
B. See if your Hard drive is Failing:
What to Try:
C. Remove Login Items:
While in Safe Mode, remove all of your Login Items, and then restart the Mac. Go Here: Change Users & Groups Login Items Preferences on Mac - Apple Support
bradencw Said:
"Brand new MacBook M1 Pro can't handle 1080p Multicam editing??: I am using my brand new 14" M1 MacBook Pro to edit a wedding video with 2 1080p clips in the Multicam editor and it lags almost as much as my old 2014 MacBook. This is the one reason I bought this laptop, what is going on?? I'm using a 2021 14 inch MacBook pro with the M1 Pro Chip, 16GB of memory."
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Troubleshooting Lagging Apps:
Redownload this app. It may be a corrupt install.
Troubleshooting a Lagging Mac:
A. Try Safe Mode:
In Safe Mode, login items do not run, and corrupt system files(i.e. caches) are intentionally reset as a way to fix issues
B. See if your Hard drive is Failing:
What to Try:
C. Remove Login Items:
While in Safe Mode, remove all of your Login Items, and then restart the Mac. Go Here: Change Users & Groups Login Items Preferences on Mac - Apple Support
I'll leave this up so it can hopefully help other people: It turns out FCPX was lagging because I was completely editing off of an external hard drive. Once I copied the project onto my internal disk it performed perfectly fine.
That a drive is EXTERNAL should not present an issue.
That a drive is SLOW is so consequential that Black Magic (Video editing software developer) reached outside their area of interest and developed a disk test to quantify whether a drive you connect is fast enough for full speed editing at a particular resolution.
Black Magic disk speed test has become an important general purpose tools for anyone fiddling with drives and concerned about speeds.
Brand new MacBook M1 Pro can't handle 1080p Multicam editing??
