Why is my rendering time extremely slow?
Hello everyone,
I have had Final Cut Pro for awhile now, and I started utilizing it more to edit videos, especially after I purchased my Phantom 4 drone. I have a Late 2015, MacBook Pro Retina 15" with 16GB of RAM, 1TB SSD, 2.6 GHz i7 processor, and AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2GB. I store my video files on a Local 12TB Pegasus NAS on a CAT 6A gigabit network. I have no issues playing 4k video from the NAS as my r/w speeds range from 800Mbps to 1.1Gbps. But when FCPX does background rendering or I output to compressor, the rendering time is RIDICULOUS. Background rendering a 30 second clip with basic effects can take up to 20 minutes. Finalizing a 4 minute video can take 1-2 hours. I monitor my Macs performance and the CPU is sitting at idle....... What is causing this! I remember iMovie can render faster....
MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)