Q: FCPX 10.1 Very slow on iMac and lots of spinning beach balls

Hi Guys...

Im in the same boat, but with a MAc Pro....3,1....24 gig ram, 8 core 3.2

Getting the slow movements around time line, and zooming,etc.....

Working with long projects ( 50 mins).....

I thought it was my Graphics card GTX 680 ( 4 gig) being a CUDA card......

BUt after reading this post, Im not so sure.....

Ive been battling with getting a new MAC PRO, but £4000 and it may still be teh same......

Im now really thinking of dumping FCX and moving over to Premiere..... which will be a sad day.....

Please Apple, fix this problem ASAP!  I'm finding that FCPX 10.1.1 is very near unusable. Each task takes 2 to 3 seconds to perform - constantly sticking. When dragging a video or graphic onto the timeline FPCX seems to thingk about the process rather than doing it. I've tried a few of the suggested solutions but to no avail. Help!!!

I had the same kind of issue on my iMac 3.4Ghz i7 with 32GB of ram. Everything I was doing on my FCPX 10.1 was slow... I then realised that when you CLOSE THE INSPECTOR window FCPX works faster.

Thanks Steven, I have the same configuration as you do, and so far your suggestion seems to have helped. Kinda weird, tho, that you'd have to close the inspector to get rid of some stick bugs. Thanks again.

I was plagued by a 25 second startup time on a new Mac Pro, with lots of spinning beachballs. Previous startups were 2 or 3 seconds. If I turn off the network (mine is a new Airport Extreme 802.11 ac), the startup drops to a couple of seconds again.

Would someone else see if this can be reproduced?

C.

I have a similar issue with my U-Verse router/gateway ethernet connection..I unplug (now I have an on/off switch) the ethernet and the startup is indeed 2/3 sec instead of 20/25 sec.. The FCPX is searching for libraries and seems to get stuck (hanging) with the U-Verse device..

Final Cut had been working fine until yesterday. Now I'm getting beachballs for every little thing I do.

When trashing preferences for Final Cut X, are all of the following files to be trashed or only some of them?

com.apple.FinalCut.CreateDisc.plist

com.apple.FinalCut.CreateDisc.plist.lockfile

com.apple.FinalCut.LSSharedFileList.plist

com.apple.FinalCut.LSSharedFileList.plist.lockfile

com.apple.FinalCut.plist

com.apple.FinalCut.plist.aL95VzL

com.apple.FinalCut.plist.lockfile

com.apple.FinalCut.UserDestinations.plist

com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist

com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist.lockfile

You should use Preference Manager to delete the preferences. It not only knows what to delete, but can also throw away some cached preferences. Under Mavericks, it appears that simply moving the preference files to the trash is not enough. PrefMan takes care of everything.

www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman

Thank you, Luis.

Fixed. Day and night. 180º. Healed. Race horse. Everytime I moved the cursor I'd get the bubonic beach ball. Preference Manager cured FCPX in 3 seconds for me. You should know that I'm running 10.0.9 on 10.8.5 Mnt. Lion in case it doesn't work for you.

notoze, did you do anything with Preference Manager other than trash your Final Cut preferences?

As I have reported in https://discussions.apple.com/message/25325256#25325256 and

https://discussions.apple.com/message/25324655#25324655 I've been dealing with a fubar event in one of my libraries. Yesterday I solved the problems by the following procedure:

1) Export an xml file of the fubar event

2) Export and xml file of each of the projects in the fubar event

3) Create a new library

4) Import the xml file of the fubar event into the new library

5) Import each of the xml files of the projects in the fubar event into the new library

If you're experiencing incessant beachballing I suggest you do the procedure above and see whether you get the same relief I did. It might be relevant that the fubar library was created from events and projects that were created prior to the existence of libraries.

Thanks to Ahmadallah Hemid for suggesting the above procedure.
https://www.facebook.com/ahmadallah.hemid

Nothing else

I'm having serious problems with beach balls as well. Sometimes it will be something as simple as pressing the J key, to back a clip up after playing it. It's absolutely rediculous how much time I'm wasting sitting and waiting for Final Cut to wake up.

It would be a great relief to even hear from Apple that they know about the problem and they are taking care to fix it.

I generally have less than 40gb of material, encoded with XDcam 35, working on my 2.66 Ghz i7 MBP with 8 gigs of ram, of an internal 7200 data drive (boot drive is internal SSD). It's been plenty fast before, but lately it's been horrid. Not sure but it seems to have slown down with FCP 10.1 and Mavericks.

My present project is about 350 clips of Prores LT. The timeline doesn't have more than 2 dozen clips and I'm getting beach balls.

I just trashed the prefs, and it may have helped, but it's not a panacea.

Apple, please help.