Really slow export after upgrade 10.0.0.6

I agree. I feel Apple is trying to make improvements to this software it's just going to take time. I like the concept of Final Cut X however I feel they have taken a step backward by removing some great features or should I say basic features/functionality.

Thanks Tom for all your help. Hopefully it will remain stable through my next project. This is going to be a big test to see how Final Cut X performs.

Blessings,

Lance

cyborgjeff wrote:

Same for me, i leave the Mac alone... Is it possible when the computer switch off screen, he didn't continue rendering if i'm not doing something on the computer.

I think you may have a good point here. It could be that when the screen is turned off also the gpu goes to sleep or is throttled down somewhat - this would impact heavily on rendering and exporting. I don't know if that is the case.

I'm not a big Apple user, so i can't really compare with windows environement, but during rendering, when i look at the activity monitor, FCPX announce 110% of processor, but screen monitoring only show 3 green digit sometime 4.

If your mac has 4 cores (physical or virtual), then one might go up to 400%, so 110% is not all that much.

Hard drive usage during a complex render is practically undetectable. It is so brief and so intermittent. How long does it take to call up a single frame or a couple of layered frames of video information or a few samples of audio?

Absolutely shutting down system resources like letting drives go to sleep, which is a major cause of failure, will effect render capabilities. Many people have the system and drive set to power down. In fact that's the default setting in the OS. That will completely botch up a render or an export. It's especially important to be aware of for external drives that are not controlled by the system and whose dive software is normally set it spin down if there is little activity. That's why there is software like Disksomnia.

cyborgjeff wrote:

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So why takes it so much time without any computer activity when i do it starting from project created in 10.0.0.5 ? and what to do ?

I don't know why, but at least your very question suggests a possible way to avoid this problem.

-Open your old project, select all, copy.

-Create a new project.

-Paste everything into the new project

-Render, export, etc

Does it now work as fast as it should?

Apple does not "listen in" on these forums. They do listen when feedback is provided through the application or a bug is reported in bugreport.apple.com.

The problem here is that there is too few information to be going on. You are experiencing a very annoying situation, but so far it is not clear what is causing it. It certainly is not unique to you, but it does not seem to be a widespread problem, or we'd be hearing a lot more complaints. I still think there must be something specific to your setup - maybe something in your project - that contributes to the problem.

cyborgjeff wrote:

After that, what's the best ? Trying to find a 10.0.5 from a friend and change with my Apple ID parameters OR Uninstall & ReInstall FCPX 10.0.6.

Another option: if you can test an export of your project on someone else's computer with 10.0.6 to get an indication of how much of the performance hit is FCP as how much may be related to your system configuration.

I've got another thread on this version's stability vs, previous versions, so I feel your pain. I can roll back if necessary. But am currently testing on a different OS to see whether that makes a difference.

One thing I have not experienced so far is slower exports…but I always work in PR 422. A half hour 2 cam show with every clip color-corrected and a fair amount of graphics exported faster than real time…and I had an orange bar for the entire time line. (But there are plenty other oddball things going on.)

Anyhow, I would definitely try a reinstall. I'm not sure this is absolutely necessary, but I use Digital Rebellion's FCS Remover(they need to change the name) to make sure I don't miss any files.

Good luck.

Russ