Just About ready To Chuck FCPX

[New2012MacForMe]

Ok, I think I've officially had it with this program. One problem after another. $3K for a new computer and another $300 for FCPX and I still wish I was editing on my 6 year old HP with Pinnacle Ultimate Studio.....

Latest problem is that FCPX freezes and computer needs a hard re-boot everytime I try to use titles in the application. Anyone know how to solve this? It happens either with optimized or proxy files. There is no background tasks going on. I simply move the title over to the timeline, double-click on it and it freezes. Next time I opened FCPX, I had a few seconds before it froze again. On the third try, I got smart and used those few seconds to delete the title - this time no freezing.

This issue makes this program unuasable to me and I might have to ditch it soon for something else if I can't find a solution.

Running on a late 2012 model iMac, i7, 16gb, 1tb fusion, 2gb video - editing on the fusion drive within the admin account.

Thanks

[MacBoobsPro]

Give Apple feedback so they can fix it.

[DelisleBA.info]

Your cpu is still under warranty, right? No way this should be happening. Call Apple or visit them.

[New2012MacForMe]

The problem seems to be happening to a number of people. I'll report it to Apple, but that won't solve my immediate problem. Not sure what the CPU has to do with it. The computer is fine, it's just the program that I am having problems with.

Is there anyone else out there that has had this issue. If so, how'd you fix it?

[isethx]

i actually have this exact same issue. no fix. i have to hard reboot.

[mBox]

What kind of files?
When you work with Proxies are you at ProRes Lite or?
I work with R3D converted to ProRes4444 at 4K resolution running on numerous MBP from retina to as old as 2009 Uni 17".
Ive been through the beta days (earlier than 10.0.4) solid and nothing that bad occurs.
I guess we will need more info as to what exactly is going on.

Cause I can say the same about my Avid MC and Premiere Pro at work as far as crashing constantly goes

[daybreak]

Having read this post and been following its progress it seems to me one thing lead to another problem.
What i can gather "Pixie Dust Title" which i never hear off seems to be the culprit? Is this an After effect template?.
When i started with FCP-X i did have a few crashes with titles. I put that down to Apple's new software. Later on a more advanced update i performed the same task and they worked fine.
I maintain when working in FCP-X and a task makes you work crash leave it for a couple of days and try again.
Not much help but i always say Why did it do that". Make a note and search all forms of internet on the subject.
FCP-X is not the best application in the world but very powerful and time saving.

[hltjr]

FCX started going screwy on me after I purchased and started using a new external FW800 hard drive as of 01/01/13. Then it started requiring a reboot while working on events/projects that are on my internal hard drive. I blamed it on my older MBP, but it seems like it's happening with even newer machines. I'll continue to send the report(s) to Apple and hopefully all will be well soon. Thanks for sharing people.

[StevethePirate]

The problem is you're using FCPX.

[Zwhaler]

Originally Posted by isethx

i actually have this exact same issue. no fix. i have to hard reboot.

Originally Posted by New2012MacForMe

Ok, I think I've officially had it with this program. One problem after another. $3K for a new computer and another $300 for FCPX and I still wish I was editing on my 6 year old HP with Pinnacle Ultimate Studio.....

Latest problem is that FCPX freezes and computer needs a hard re-boot everytime I try to use titles in the application. Anyone know how to solve this? It happens either with optimized or proxy files. There is no background tasks going on. I simply move the title over to the timeline, double-click on it and it freezes. Next time I opened FCPX, I had a few seconds before it froze again. On the third try, I got smart and used those few seconds to delete the title - this time no freezing.

This issue makes this program unuasable to me and I might have to ditch it soon for something else if I can't find a solution.

Running on a late 2012 model iMac, i7, 16gb, 1tb fusion, 2gb video - editing on the fusion drive within the admin account.

Thanks

Have you tried calling Apple?

[blackmoses]

Originally Posted by New2012MacForMe

Ok, I think I've officially had it with this program. One problem after another. $3K for a new computer and another $300 for FCPX and I still wish I was editing on my 6 year old HP with Pinnacle Ultimate Studio.....

Latest problem is that FCPX freezes and computer needs a hard re-boot everytime I try to use titles in the application. Anyone know how to solve this? It happens either with optimized or proxy files. There is no background tasks going on. I simply move the title over to the timeline, double-click on it and it freezes. Next time I opened FCPX, I had a few seconds before it froze again. On the third try, I got smart and used those few seconds to delete the title - this time no freezing.

This issue makes this program unuasable to me and I might have to ditch it soon for something else if I can't find a solution.

Running on a late 2012 model iMac, i7, 16gb, 1tb fusion, 2gb video - editing on the fusion drive within the admin account.

Thanks

Does this happen with any font? I would suggest running verification in Font Book and seeing if you have any bad fonts.

Also, am I correct in assuming you're running FCPX 10.0.7 (latest version)?

[New2012MacForMe]

Thanks for all the replies and comments.

Blackmoses, it's not the font, it's the Pixie Dust title that came with FCPX. For the few seconds I have before it freezes up, I don't even have enough time to get into the title to change the font. The same font however works fine on other titles. And yes, running the latest version with all updates.

Feeling much better about the program lately. Just staying away from that title. The real test will come over the next week or so as I edit a bunch of home videos that need cleaning up. We'll see if I discover anything else.

Thanks again.

[mrcliffsr]

Just want to say I'm having the same problem with my new iMac 27 and FCPX. Also have the same issue with Motion 5. Just doing a simple title zoom, the thing stutters, the play back speed falls to about 5 or 10 fps. then it freezes.
Can't move the cursor. Have to do a restart.

My old PPC G5 running FCP 5 has been fine and I'm afraid to put this new one in my work flow.

[coldsweat]

I'm having system freeze issues too!

Seems to be related to Final Cut Pro X & 2012 iMacs with a 680mx graphics card and is being discussed on the apple fcpx forums

https://discussions.apple.com/thread...art=0&tstart=0

Hopefully there'll be a fix soon!

[SurfCity1]

Just a note of solidarity. My brand new 27" iMac is doing the exact same thing. Not only with the Pixydust title, but all of them...randomly. It makes FCPX almost unusable. Complete hard locks the entire system. Crash report doesn't show anything, and the only way to get going again is a hard reboot.

Heading to an Apple in the next few days.

[4God]

Ah, should've known...graphics card issue.

[harddriveowner]

The freeze happens to me far too frequently. I not only reboot but turn off my 2 external Firewire 800 hard drives that I keep the video files in. When I clean out the 'system' completely, FCPX works fine.
I am still using a 2009 Mac Pro with 16 gigs of ram and Lion.
I do not blame OSX. It is FCPX.
As for the people who say just get rid of FCPX, I will say that when it is not freezing, it is faster than lightning compared to FCP 7. Is it possible that the problem might be the firewire connection with the external drives.
The question I have is would the freeze happen if the external drives were thunderbolt drives. Does anyone have a thunderbolt set up yet?
I am still waiting for the new Mac Pro but someone must be using a new iMac or laptop with a thunderbolt extenral harddrive.

[New2012MacForMe]

Haven't tried it with thunderbolt only. Originally I was using it with no external drives. More recently I picked up a 1tb WD usb 3.0. With or without the external drive I get the same issue with that one title. Now that I am steering away from that one title, everything works great and it really does fly.

[mantic]

Looks like i'll be sticking with FCP 7

[steve123]

Like you, I was having a very frustrating experience recently that was resulting in fcpx crashes and system instability. It culminated in a repeating fcpx crash at start up and I could not do anything before the crash. I inspected the crash log and i think I recall I saw it was connected to a thumbnail. So I deleted the thumbnails and lo and behold, fcpx started up again. I surmise there is something that can go wrong when rendering thumbnails that can corrupt them.

So it may be helpful to keep in mind that another weapon in your arsenal is to delete the render files and/or thumbnails if your are experiencing frequent crashes.

Regarding Pixie Dust, boy am I glad I did not use it! I was looking at it just yesterday but decided to make my own effect in Motion. The result is much better and there are many more options and styles.

FYI, Alex4D has a sparks template you might want to look at too.

[jaduffy108]

Originally Posted by New2012MacForMe

Haven't tried it with thunderbolt only. Originally I was using it with no external drives. More recently I picked up a 1tb WD usb 3.0. With or without the external drive I get the same issue with that one title. Now that I am steering away from that one title, everything works great and it really does fly.

Dude, stop the madness and get CS6. All this pain and suffering, which will continue btw, over $300.??? (or get Avid MC6 on an edu discount). And...if you desire to work in multi-user, broadcast post environments as an editor...all the more reason to get off of FCPX. I prefer Avid due to its media management, but Premiere CS6 is a very good NLE.

[tbrinkma]

Originally Posted by jaduffy108

Dude, stop the madness and get CS6. All this pain and suffering, which will continue btw, over $300.??? (or get Avid MC6 on an edu discount). And...if you desire to work in multi-user, broadcast post environments as an editor...all the more reason to get off of FCPX. I prefer Avid due to its media management, but Premiere CS6 is a very good NLE.

Yep, sure. Because the solution to an identified issue with a $300 software package, which can apparently be completely avoided by not using one particular title, is to go out and buy a $1,899 software package (CS6) instead.

[rseredyn]

Hi everybody

I use iMac 21.5'' 2,5 GHz I5, 8GB RAM, with FCPX 10.0.7
Mainly I use Mac to middle long projects (10-50 min movies, 1920x1080p, 25fps, ProRes codec).

After half year of using FCPX I have impression that the big problem is RAM management system. I bought "Memory clean" in AppStore. I revealed, that when I use FCPX (intensive changes in clips, changes of effect / generators etc) the structure of RAM changes: increase the inactive part of memory, even when I leave the projects.
I clean up the memory very often and I think, the freeze effects are rare.

Rafal

P.S. I don't have shares in Memory Clean's produrer and it isn't advertorial.

[sudhir22]

you can solve to get apple feedback.

[nzreg]

As a matter of interest, after reading this topic I fired up FCP 10.0.6 running on a mac mini 16gig ram 2.3 ghz core i7, intel hd graphics 4000 768mb with osx 10.8.2.
Loaded pixie Dust onto a clip in the storyline and rendered lightning fast with no issues.
Hope this can be of help to someone