final cut pro 11 - Playback is choppy with masks and effects activated
Hello everyone, I’m kinda disappointed by the new fcp update…
Working on macbook pro m3 max (the strongest one)
Everything on my actual comp was butter smooth before the update… now it’s all laggy when pushing play…. At first i noticed the problem only with shots denoised with Neat video plug in, and transitions..
So am i the only one experiencing (new) laggy playback with effects and transitions?
Could you Try this steps to help me out?
- Take a large file video (prores if possible)
- Drop It to your comp (any color profile)
- apply neat video to the shot
- wait for render, then play: everything is smooth
- now add a color wheel to this shot with a simple mask, play with the mask a bit
- wait for render and play
- its all laggy…
Lets try backwards:
- deactivate only neat video: render and play: all smooth
- deactivate only masked color wheel : render and play: all smooth
- activate both: render and play: laggy
They did something wrong with masks….
- Now , deactivate the color wheel mask, (keep only neat video activated)
- duplicate the shot
- add any transition between the 2 shots (native or third party)
- render and play: smooth
- do the opposite (deactivate neat video and activate the masks) -render and play: transition is laggy
My 2 cents, their new algorithm for masks is not compatible with any effects/transition added playback wise.
And That makes me very sad. What do you think? Can you reproduce?
Here is a video I did to show the results (macbook air M2 fcp10.8 vs Macbook apro M3 Max fcp11
