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

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

10.0.8 = 01 second

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

10.0.8 = 05 seconds

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

10.0.8 = 3 seconds

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

10.0.8 = 34 seconds

Pixie Dust: FCP 10.0.7 = 3min 27secs to render / complete system freeze at 46% for :45 secs and a complete system freeze at 94% for 1min 15secs.

10.0.8 = 35 seconds

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...and one business day before my iMac is due to be delivered 😉 Phew!

@jonuk85: everything works fine, sir; the issue was solved for good 🙂

@Thunkster: FCPX (or any other Apple apps) do not use CUDA, they use OpenGL.

Thank you Apple engineering and anyone else who helped put this to bed.

The upgrade works fine here. Back to work.

Thank you Apple guys!! You can hear us!! Thanks for listening!!

Ditto thank you Apple. Still managed to get through a major project with the issues and will be very happy to have FCPX in fine form.

Everything so far is workin like a charm now, no stuttering of the system while rendering, no lock ups, and at last having spent this much on the machine really feels like it is paying off.

This has been a pain to have to wait for, and frustrating how little progress information Apple have been willing to share, but relieved it is over!

It all sounds marvelous, we'll have to see now when I get to the studio on friday and start working on a new project

I can confirm the following for my Late 2012 iMac, 2GB 680MX Graphics, 32GB Ram, 750GB Flash Drive, OSX 10.8.3:

FCPX 10.0.7 Pixie Dust - 2min 10 sec to render (with significant stuttering)

FCPX 10.0.8 Pixie Dust - 25sec to render (with no stuttering)

Problem solved!

Thanks Apple

Im here in my videostudio, but the apple update app store **** can't seem to find any updates for Final Cut, this is highly weird? what to do?

What version are you using? Are you logged into the App Store with the Apple ID that purchased the software? Is it listed on the purchased page? Move the app to the trash and try to re-download.

Got the latest 10.0.8 now, thank god for no more freezing problems, but still on top specs it takes time to render, so there must still be a bug, this is not so funny anymore when you buy an expensive **** computer with all that power that it is suppose to help with and still acts like a cheap *** machine

Hmm, I'm not finding anything "slow" now, but its all relative. Sure, things are not instant, but knowing what's needed to be done by the software, I'm not finding FCPX "slow". What I did find was that much of the time, the disk speed even with the hybrid drive was acting as the bottle neck for many operations, so I invested in a fast external USB 3 256GB SSD, and now when all the assets and temp project files can work from that, things are significantly quicker.

Of course with an app this complex and with all the different types of media and configurations and tasks expected of it, Milage will vary so its possible you've found something specific that's afflicting you which I'm just not seeing, but you might want to do some work to investigate what's happening when you find something is "slow" as it might not be a "bug", but something specific to your config/files/workflow. The difference with the issue we were all having before was that it was consistent, reproducible and affecting some basic functionality.

Anyhow, good luck getting to the bottom of your issue and I hope I don't come across whatever it is as I'm quite happy with the speed etc across the board with FCPX now.