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My Macbook Pro is very slow for light video editing

Hi Everyone,


My Macbook Pro is very slow that I can't use iMovie to edit simple views. The audio and video is always slow even when I watch a saved movie using Quicktime. I tried to quit everything and run only one app, but it's still slow. I tried to verify and repair my disk, I tried to look at what's taking most of my RAM space, but still I hate using this laptop now. I know it got high performance hardware, but it's not performing very well. Please help me ..


Hardware Information:

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)

MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2

1 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2-core

8 GB RAM Upgradeable

BANK 0/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported

Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g

Battery: Health = Normal - Cycle count = 214 - SN = W02154A10D3LC


Video Information:

Intel HD Graphics 4000

Color LCD 1280 x 800


System Software:

OS X 10.10.2 (14C109) - Time since boot: about 5 hours


Disk Information:

TOSHIBA MK7559GSXF disk0 : (750.16 GB) (Rotational)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 729.00 GB (184.20 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB

Untitled (disk0s4) /Volumes/Untitled : 20.30 GB (1.09 GB free)


MATSHITADVD-R UJ-8A8 ()


USB Information:

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller


Thunderbolt Information:

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus


Configuration files:

/etc/hosts - Count: 15


Gatekeeper:

Anywhere


Kernel Extensions:

/Library/Application Support/Roxio

[not loaded] com.roxio.TDIXController (2.0)


/System/Library/Extensions

[loaded] com.globaldelight.driver.BoomDevice (1.1 - SDK 10.9)

[not loaded] com.roxio.BluRaySupport (1.1.6)


Launch Agents:

[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist


Launch Daemons:

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist

[loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist

[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist

[loaded] com.tunnelbear.mac.tbeard.plist


User Launch Agents:

[failed] com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-[...]@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist


User Login Items:

iTunesHelper Application (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)

Boom Application Hidden (/Applications/Boom.app)

Dropbox Application Hidden (/Applications/Dropbox.app)


Internet Plug-ins:

FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 18.0.0.232 - SDK 10.6

QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

Flash Player: Version: 18.0.0.232 - SDK 10.6

Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10

o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.41.0.0 - SDK 10.8

googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.41.0.0 - SDK 10.8

JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 21 Check version


3rd Party Preference Panes:

Flash Player

Java

Perian


Time Machine:

Time Machine not configured!


Top Processes by CPU:

4% WindowServer

4% coreaudiod

2% softwareupdated

1% Boom

1% com.apple.WebKit.WebContent


Top Processes by Memory:

2.33 GB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent

604 MB kernel_task

451 MB softwareupdated

98 MB mds_stores

98 MB opendirectoryd


Virtual Memory Information:

1.62 GB Free RAM

6.38 GB Used RAM (2.36 GB Cached)

0 B Swap Used


Diagnostics Information:

Aug 31, 2015, 11:54:46 AM Self test - passed

Aug 31, 2015, 08:33:05 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/SecurityAgent_2015-08-31-083305_[redacted].cras h

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1), i7 8GB ram

Posted on Aug 31, 2015 8:05 AM

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Aug 31, 2015 10:11 AM in response to JBrealow

When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.

These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

☞ In the Finder, select Go Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select

SYSTEM LOG QUERIES All Messages

from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select

View Show Log List

from the menu bar at the top of the screen.

Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.

Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.

Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.

The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.

Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.

Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.

Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

When you post the log extract, you might see an error message on the web page: "You have included content in your post that is not permitted," or "The message contains invalid characters." That's a bug in the forum software. Please post the text on Pastebin, then post a link here to the page you created.

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