Final Cut Pro X freezing on top spec new 27" iMac, help!

I have installed 10.8.3 and tested FCP X 10.0.7 on my 3,4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 iMac with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX. I've completed a 1-hour, title intensive, program with no significant issues since receiving my iMac several weeks ago.

The following are results of applying each title (length 5 seconds each) to a 1080 30p timleline.

default title: 03 secs to render / no other system or app performance issues

Boogie Lights: 05 secs to render / no other system or app performance issues

Ornate: 04 seconds / no other system or app performance issues

Far Far Away (a render hog) :31 secs to render / no other system or app performance issues

Pixie Dust: 3min 27secs to render / complete system freeze at 46% for :45 secs and a complete system freeze at 94% for 1min 15secs.

Without the system freezes it might have only taken 1min 30secs for Pixie Dust to render - which is a very, very long time. The system freezes that occured before 10.8.3 included the cursor freezing and there seemed there was no recovery, even after an hour, apart from a hard restart. Since 10.8.3 the system freezes but the cursor still functions normally. Also, as I indicated above, the system recovers if you are patient and give it a couple of minutes - for a 5 second Pixie Dust title.

This is an improvement for me but I was hoping for more. The 10.8.3 update doesn't mention GPU improvements although that was part of the developer focus in the pre-release versions.

Same here, I updated to 8.3 and the only good thing is, it doesn't lock up completely so I have to restart.

It still studders and stops when rendering and is sloooow. I just don't have time for this. I've gone back to my old G5 and FCP 5.04. At least it works. It's been three months now and all we have is a band aid.

Ciao iTeppy!

Yes I'm Italian end you can help me!

How can we get in touch without creating problems in this thred?

Where can I write you?

GRAZIE

I want to understand better the problem and the solution you are training to do. I think that if we talk a little in italian is better to understand for us. But on this forum I can't contact you privatly...

None of you after you have installed the 10.8.3 has also installed new drivers for the video card upgraded to the new iOS 10.8.3?

This is the link

http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-5.0.45-driver.html

Perhaps even more improves the stability

If you have, tell us your impressions?

How can we do?

Does FCPX even use the Nvidia CUDA attrabutes?

No. FCPX & Motion use OpenGL.

Thanks Hirschkorn, I just wanted that to be clear.

I hope they are still working on this problem.

They really are 😉

Hello guys, anyone of you have installed the update to 10.8.3?

For Joseph Tame ... At Apple as they took the reply that FCPX still freezes?

They did not release anything?

mario

I did update mine to 10.8.3 and no problem so far. Of course I would not dare to use Pixie Dust 😝.

Even if you'd use it, it won't crash - it will just freeze from time to time and will take a long (4-5x) time to render. Anyway... fix coming soon 😉

we hope the fix comes soon guys!

Now even I upgrade to 10.8.3 because under present conditions it is impossible to work with.

Any use of title, iMac freezes as he tries to render

I updated to 10.8.3

I must say that things have improved a lot.

Today, all day I tried different effects and titles

without any crash.

Hirschkorn says the car slows down the rendering process for some titles, and sometimes seems to hang, but just wait a few minutes and sent again.

Important thing has never frozen.

When I upgraded to 10.8.3 GTX 680 video card has asked me to also update the drivers. I performed the operation. For now all ok.

Expect however confident the optimization by APPE ....

mario