Final Cut Pro X Spinning Beachball

You did not mention the format of your video?

Has it been converted during import? Compressed video is very demanding on the cpu so performance should be much better if clips are copied and converted during import.

Sorry, Don't know how to edit my own post.

Another thought...

Take a look at the Activity Monitor utility to see what else is going on? I once found a PPC app using 99% of my cpu!!

The footage is large, 1920 x 1080 24p and no it was not converted. Conversion was one of the things we were'nt supposed to have to do anymore? So I should go ahead and convert it as I did for fcp 7? It's a pain but if it will get me rolling again that will be a price I'll have to pay for now.

Do others find if you convert the footage you can use fcpx without it slowing down or is that just a small improvement?

Monty

Without conversion we can get to work with simple timeline cuts, but when using effects and transitions things will slow down.

Remember that playing back compressed files puts a strain on the system let alone trying to process it in real time. That's the nature of compressed video. It is possible to convert the files after importing them so do so when you go to lunch or whatever.

FCE, iMovie, and FCP would not play any of my files at all without conversion so this is an improvement.

You just discribed what happens without converting the footage. It starts out fine but after about 3/4 minutes of video it just starts crawling real slow.

Any rumors of a fix, a fast fix.

How can a first class company like Snaple not know this?

Monty

Am having similar problems with my MB Pro. Working with the Ripple Training materials. I had a couple of FCP crashes early on, then they went away. Now that I’m into the later work with looks, generators and titles, FCP is crashing and taking my machine with it. What is repeatable is trying to audition a lower third title with different fonts. Scanning the title thumbnail puts the title on screen but not composited over the movie. And it takes everything away when I try to scan over other fonts.

I’ve been with FCP since 1.0. It is pretty much always the same. Wait til the point one or point 2 release. Why Apple insists of releasing things to serious people as good to go when they are really mid term betas escapes me. Adobe got that right with Lightroom. Would that Steve get this bit of it.

Hello all, after installing Lion, I experienced the same problems you all described... Very slow reactions, ( a little bit faster when you put off the background rendering), multiple crashes, (for example when you change the transformation-parameters on a text effect it crashes over and over again when you try to render the effect...)

This last 30 days have been realy disapointing for me as for you all I guess... I don t want my money back, I just want it to work like it shoud do... Let's hope Apple isn t only interested in ipad and iphones...

My Mac is an Imac 24" 3.06GHz intel core 2 Duo, 4Gb Ram, 4850 Ati Radeon version (feb 2009)

This has got to stop, very few people have a fcp x that is working properly, are there any rumors of an emergency fix. This is such a big deal.

Jim Ewing wrote:

Why Apple insists of releasing things to serious people as good to go when they are really mid term betas escapes me.

Because you are "paying" beta testers, not a bad deal... eh? (for Apple)

Also, they know that most people will stick with them... no matter what.

pancenter-

Forgive me, I may have had an out-of-body experience thinking that Apple realized the error of there way and was stopping everything so all their energies could be focused on fcp x...

But that is going to happen isn't it. lol...

This seems to be be mainly a Lion problem. Ever since the upgrade my MacPro 12-Core 2.93GHz 6 GB RAM has been brought to a stuttering halt in FCPX by a Timeline and a couple of audio tracks on a 5 minute project. It is almost uneditable. If you look at the stats you see the CPU is usually less than 5% enaged but the whole of the RAM is in use, and stays that way even when nothing is rendering and no other apps are busy. It looks to me like a memory utilization/release bug.

montywent wrote:

This has got to stop, very few people have a fcp x that is working properly,

How do you know?

The posts on this forum, artical's, other websites, competing manufacturer forums, the Conan O'Brien's TV show even chimed in, google searches. The petition sign-in site, just to name a few.

I don't know. I would say the sum of the complaints equate to a problem beyond normal.

I do know mine doesn't work and no one has offered a confirmed fix.

I am running a Mac Pro 12 core with 48Gb ram on OS 10.6.8

FCP X is unusable for a simple 30 minute project. I get the spinning beachball for ages at random times and rendering stops at 50% - then nothing. The synchronise clip is totally random and useless.

I had only recently moved from FC Express to FC Studio at great expense (inc. buying this Mac) and now I have had to buy FCP X as there was no upgrade.

Not good enough by a country mile Apple - I plan to crossgrade to Avid - how do I claim my money back?

It upsets me that we are into August with no updates. What's going on apple?