Juan0322
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Q: Beach Balling

I'm I the only one that has to edit like "walking on egg shells" or FCP X hangs and beach balls. I've upgraded ram, I'm using event manager, I'm using fast drives, I've upgraded to 10.0.3 and Lion. I'm even using proxy files on a Quad Xenon and Raid 0 drives. What else can i do? Why does it hang so many times per session?

Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon. 6 GB

Posted on Feb 22, 2012 12:01 PM

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Q: Beach Balling

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  • by andynick,

    andynick andynick Feb 22, 2012 11:34 PM in response to Juan0322
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    Feb 22, 2012 11:34 PM in response to Juan0322

    FCP X 10.0.3 runs very well on my 2009 MacPro 2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon with 16 GB RAM and ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB

     

    First, check the spec of your iMac against the system requirements:

    http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/specs/

     

    Particularly your graphics card. If it's listed here, it's not suitable:

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4664

     

    If you are getting crashes, there is some conflict on the OS. Create a new (admin) user account on your system and use FCP X from there - if it runs a lot better, there's a conflict and a clean install would be recommended.

     

    Other ways to improve performance:

     

    Keep projects to 20 mins or less. If you have a long project, work on 20 min sections then paste these into a final project for export.

     

    Hide Waveforms at all times when you don't need them (both in Browser and Storyline / Timeline). They take up a lot of processor power.

     

    The biggest single improvement I saw in performance was when I upgraded the RAM from 8 GB to 16.

    Andy