Final Cut Pro 10.6.5 is nearly useable
Checking with the rest of the FCP community to see who's experiencing unacceptable sluggishness with FCP, especially on a loaded iMac Pro.
Before anyone suggested reloading the OS, blah blah, That's been done and the OS has nothing to do with FCP taking hours for should take minutes.
System Specs are:
MacOS 13.3.1
Model Name: iMac Pro
Model Identifier: iMacPro1,1
Processor Name: 10-Core Intel Xeon W
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 10
L2 Cache (per Core): 1 MB
L3 Cache: 13.8 MB
Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled
Memory: 64 GB
System Firmware Version: 1968.100.17.0.0 (iBridge: 20.16.4252.0.0,0)
Also connected vie Thunderbolt3 is an AMD Radeon 6800XT in a Razer Core Chroma enclosure.
Back to my point... FCP is horribly slow to the point it sometime takes hours to process a minute or two of 4K video from my canon R5. As a matter of fact, I currently have a 3 minute clip that is exporting to MP4 and has been for 2 hours - and is only @22%!
If I make any changes to a video clip, FCP want to re-render all the clips.
It's beyond me how Apple could sell such a POC video editor when they've been developing this application for well over a decade.
Is anyone having the same experience and did you have to move to Adobe Premier?
I don't want to go off on a rail here but after years of shoddy products and decades of Mac use... I'm considering "alternatives" at this point.
iMac Pro, macOS 13.3
