Q: Final Cut Express 4 Playback problems on El Capitan
Hello,
I have been using FCE 4 for many years, and it's worked flawlessly until i upgraded to El Capitan. Now, when I have more than 2 video timelines concurrently/overlayed in use (i.e., 3 or more), the post rendering playback becomes useless: i.e., choppy, dropped frames/packets, etc. Prior to El Capitan, I could use FCE "System Settings" for "Playback Control" set to:
However, now, in order to get any sort of useful playback, I have to use:
Ok, this gets me moving forward again, but this is really annoying.
I have a reasonably beefy machine (and again, no issues prior to El Capitan):
I've read through the discussion here and there seems to be mixed results with El Capitan and FCE, but they all seem to center around either:
- Import
- Just generic application launch and use.
My install is "working" fine, just the rendered playback does not. Is it possible that its something besides an incompatibility between FCE and El Capitan?
Anybody have any ideas or thoughts?
Thanks
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), 27", Late 2012, 24G, Core i5 @2.9GH
Posted on Jan 26, 2016 4:33 PM


