How to fix long export time in Final Cut Pro

I’m a wedding photographer and videographer. I’ve worked with MacBooks for years. My previous laptop was a 2020 with 1TB of storage, but it took quite a while for render and export time. I upgraded to a 2022 MacBook Pro with the M2 chip and am finding that the render/export is hours long for a video less than 10 minutes long. Now, some videos have taken me long in the past, but I’m not sure why it’s being so excessive. I have it set to render in the background and I don’t have any 3rd party effects added (unless you count a conversion LUT for my Canon LOG footage which has never previously given me issues and should be fine per Apple tech). Yet I’ve been stuck at about 65% for HOURS. I’m wondering if it’s my laptop, Final Cut, or something else. I’m exhausted of running into this issue. It shouldn’t be this long.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 14.2

Posted on Dec 31, 2023 11:04 AM

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