Logic Pro X is stuttering video

I hope they fix this ASAP. To top it off, and it may be related, Logic is also giving me the pinwheel of death once the stuttering gets too severe. This has occured during playback and the sequence will still play and MIDI works but you cannot control Logic or quit other than a Force Quit. 😠

Grrr! Maybe it is time to upgrade my DP...

Same here, exactly Chris! Crashes a lot, BUT at least it saves 🙂

Hi all,

I found a workaround, not a solution:

I use 4 monitors (3 for Logic and 1 TV out). As soon as I work on only one screen + TV out, video is fine, no stuttering at all. Once Logic mixer and piano roll are opened on the other two screens, video starts chopping.

At least you can present your work in LP10 to the producer/director, but don't open too many windows at the same time!

To me it looks like a general graphic engine problem. Quite shameful for Apple...

I am using a dual monitor setup and it stutters several times a session unfortunately. Two nights ago I thought I might have a trouble free evening...nope. Stutters and one crash. I usually get one crash an hour which reminds me of my flirtation with Cubase. I'm thinking of dusting off my DP and upgrading it at this point despite the fact I am in the midst of a project.

Chris

Same here, 4 displays! Negative here, closing Piano roll didn't give any better results!

But I agree with you, believe the problem comes from quicktime or graphical performance issues.

Really hoping for an update that makes us all happy.

Sascha

10.0.4 and still no sign of these major SMPTE/ video bugs in LPX being addressed! I posted the following to the Apple Feedback Form.

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Hi Apple.

I would just like to let you know that I am suffering serious video playback stutter in Logic "Pro" X 10.0.4

The bug is exactly as described on this Apple discussions thread and I believe it may be related to the start time SMPTE bug discussed on this Logic Pro Help thread and demonstrated in my screencast.

I am working on a BBC drama series and these 2 bugs are making use of LPX almost completely unworkable.

I also do a lot of technical consultancy for other British composers and will have to vehemently advise against any media composer transitioning to Logic "Pro" X until video start times & video playback work reliably.

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Thanks William,

Same here, starting a feature film right now...better safe than sorry and going back to L9.

PLEASE APPLE, HELP!

Actually, I seem to have found a temporary workaround thanks to Mike Shapiro over on Logic Pro Help - even though his post comes about 3 years before LPX, it still seems to work 🙂.

I'm running LPX 10.0.4 and Mavericks 10.9 and the following seems to have (mostly?) resolved video stutter.

1) In Finder, duplicate the video file provided by the editor

2) Open it in Quicktime 7 (you'll have to find this on the internet or copy it over from an old OSX installation if you don't already have it)

3) Use the Movie Properties inspector (Cmd-J) to remove the audio track

4) Save as a new file with "(No Audio)" suffix

5) Pull that into the Logic Pro X project - Tada

(I suspect this is un-important, but the codec in my resulting (non suttering) .mov video file is "AVC Coding, 640x360, 25fps, Millions of colours")

If you need the audio track from the video file then simply temporarily load the original video file that has the audio into your LPX project, choose to extract audio when opening the movie. This will leave you with the video files audio track as a Logic track, then remove the video again and load up the "(No Audio)" video file.

Hope this helps some of you. It seems that this particular bug definitely has something to do with the way Quicktime audio playback is interacting with LPX.

My temporary workaround for the video start time/ SMPTE drop frame bug is to punch into record (on any track) temporarily after adjusting the project start time which seems to snap the SMPTE timecode back in line.

This worked so far! Tonight was the first session with no stuttering or hangs after I removed the audio track m

Chris

1) In Finder, duplicate the video file provided by the editor

2) Open it in Quicktime 7 (you'll have to find this on the internet or copy it over from an old OSX installation if you don't already have it)

3) Use the Movie Properties inspector (Cmd-J) to remove the audio track

4) Save as a new file with "(No Audio)" suffix

5) Pull that into the Logic Pro X project - Tada

Thank you! It's really to work!!

It seems that everything's working fine with last update- logic X.05, even when an audio track in quicktime !

YO !

This helped with video freezing and lag. Thanks William!

1) In Finder, duplicate the video file provided by the editor

2) Open it in Quicktime 7 (you'll have to find this on the internet or copy it over from an old OSX installation if you don't already have it)

3) Use the Movie Properties inspector (Cmd-J) to remove the audio track

4) Save as a new file with "(No Audio)" suffix

5) Pull that into the Logic Pro X project - Tada

However, Apple, I really need that sync track on the movie. Scoring music requires being able to offset the movie for each cue and to hear the sync audio it's easiest to monitor it off the movie. To extract it to a track in Logic and edit it and sync it up for every cue is a giant PITA. Feedback sent via Apple Feedback Form.

Hi guys, I just figured out what is the cause for bad playback. If the framerate of the project isn't the same as video's than the video playback is bad. Just go to File>Project settings>Synchronization... and there change the fps to the right one, that matches the video's.

Don't worry if you don't know your video fps. You can always experiment in logic as there are not many in options and most common are 24, 25, 29,97 and 30. Or you can find programs that can tell you fps of video file.

I hope this works as it worked for me.

An easy way to figure out the framerate of your video is :

open video in quicktime, press Apple I (Information) there you will get your framerate info 😮!

The problem we have been talking about was serious stuff that apple fixed with their latest update!

Hi

It is working for me. It seems that it is actually the only solution that is working.

Thank you very much.

Best regards

Thierry