Slow transfer from camcorder to FCE

I did some more testing. Disk speed test on the internal HD showed speed in the 700-800 MB/s range. Speed test on the SD cards showed 33 MB/s write and 45 MB/s read. CPU loading test with the "yes" Terminal command showed all cores maxing out well with the fan ramping up!

I tried to unplug the second screen, quit all other apps, rebooted, passed a Disk Utility "Verify", repaired permissions and checked for updates.

Nobody talked about progressive. For the record, my footage is 60i.

It is matched. If it wasn't and the computer had to work harder, it would shows in CPU useage. The Activity monitor app is showing that the system is just slightly above idle while transfering.

There is something holding back the throughput, not a performance bottleneck affecting this system.

The same transfer on my Macbook Pro is taking a long time but the CPU is maxed out while transfering, so you know it's doing something!

The iMac is at my job, so I'll have to double check on monday. What I do know is that both installation were from the same original Apple DVD installation disc, which is version 4.0. The Macbook was updated to 4.0.1 by Software Update, but the iMac was updated by an update file that was made available by someone elsewhere in this forum, since it's my understanding that the updater is no longer available from Apple.

I did bought Final Cut Pro-X and plan to eventually use it in my workflow, but there is some learning curve and I have two projects to finish before I have the chance to fully master FCPX! 🙂

Hi!

I checked that this is version 4.0.1. Actually, it wouldn't import without it, like you said.

I let the thing import overnight and in the morning I found the process had stopped itself with a red ! on the file icon.

I will contact Apple support.

The plot thickens.

I'm no longer able to Log and transfer any long clips on my Macbook Pro, a system that has worked great for the last 5 years, including on long clips.

I'm getting the same issues as on the new iMac : transfer slows to a crawl and abort with a red exclamation point after a couple of hours.

Trying to assess if there is a problem with my SD card, I used Disk utility to create an image file from the card. The copy went fast, about 20MB per second. I then mounted the image and proceeded with the Log and transfer in FCE from the disk image, to no avail.

It's like both my FCE installations have become lazy with long clips. I can't understand for the life of me what the h*ll is going on! I need this to work, I have projects in the queue and clients waiting! 😟

This is the kind of shoddy app behavior you'd expect on Windows...