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circuitt

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well I finally got FCPX. Mainly for family moves and stuff nothing serious.
Got a 2013 Mac Pro 8 core D500, 64 gb ram. Once it finished installing I loaded up a few videos recording on my iPhone.
Starting messing around and then I get nothing but a beachball. Have to force quit, when when I relaunch the app same thing. I can't do anything. I have a ton of AU's from logic and waves, etc.. took a while to load when scanning all the AU's.
Wondering what it could be.
 
iPhone 6 can't do HEVC, so that's not it.
When you import the media, try choosing "Proxy." There are lots of options...
 
Yeah I'll try, I honestly have no idea what I'm doing. Perhaps it's the audio units ? Got an error on start up. Maybe I'll post it.

kohlson said:
iPhone 6 can't do HEVC, so that's not it.
When you import the media, try choosing "Proxy." There are lots of options...
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kohlson said:
iPhone 6 can't do HEVC, so that's not it.
When you import the media, try choosing "Proxy." There are lots of options...
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In my experience FCPX has a pretty steep learning curve. It is very capable, but it's not very "new user friendly". Take some time to find some getting started videos on YouTube. Once you get started, keep a browser window open (hopefully in another screen) and when you want to know how to do something, into google type: fcpx 10.3 what-i-want-to-know

The first part of the search phrase is to make sure you get advice on the how to do things in the latest version, which both added some functionality and rearranged some things.
 
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circuitt said:
Yeah I'll try, I honestly have no idea what I'm doing. Perhaps it's the audio units ? Got an error on start up. Maybe I'll post it.
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I had to ditch the NI Replika AU, it was causing errors in FCPX. So it's possible.

Since we have no idea what you did ("messing around" doesn't exactly narrow it down) it will be next to impossible to solve the problem.

With importing the video(s), did you import it to the library? did you leave them in place? did you generate optimized or proxy media? Are the files on an internal or external drive? what kind of drive is it? what are the drive's read/write speeds? what were you messing around with? etc? etc?

Ripple training has a free tutorial that get's you going, http://www.rippletraining.com/articles/getting-started-final-cut-pro-x/
I can recommend their core training as well, for me it was money well spent.
 
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Yeah I had to get rid of the NI Replika Audio Unit as well, kept crashing on start up.
just spat out a wall of text that looked to be some type of error report.
I held down command and option and cleared Preferences, seems ok so far.
I set skimming to on, imported 5 clips from my iPhone and just tossed them in the time line and then
it would freeze (beach ball) when I hit play or started skimming around and would have to force quit.
I just hit the import Media button on the time line, navigated to my video clips on my external HD. I believe it was set to optimized when I imported.
I set my Media on a Thunderbolt external (OWC thunderbay 4) Just selected one of the Spindle drives I have in there maybe 100/120 mb/s. I have a couple SSD's in there too but those are all for Kontact, Sample libs etc.. for my audio stuff.
Crossing my fingers that the preferences reset did the trick.
 
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Let's hope the reset fixed it, what you are describing should work flawlessly.
Have fun with fcpx, once you get the hang of it, it's excellent.
 
Heruhur said:
Let's hope the reset fixed it, what you are describing should work flawlessly.
Have fun with fcpx, once you get the hang of it, it's excellent.
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Ahhh... crap started doing it again.
Added a title to the beginning of my time line that synced to some music I imported and now it freezes every time I open it. AIFF file. Clearing prefs does nothing now. Booo hooo
 
circuitt said:
Ahhh... crap started doing it again.
Added a title to the beginning of my time line that synced to some music I imported and now it freezes every time I open it. AIFF file. Clearing prefs does nothing now. Booo hooo
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As a test, you could copy your AU's from the components folder to a temporary folder and see if one of those is the culprit.
 
Yeah Might try that, read something about using a different user account to see what happens.
just crazy when you have a brand new mac and a fresh copy of FCPX and it crashes all over the place.
granted my system is restored from a time machine backup of my old system. so worst comes to worst I can reinstall OSX and a million programs, but Id rather not. using Sierra , maybe I should downgrade to el cap?
 
You may have a corrupted render file. It could be loading the corrupt file over and over even though you have deleted the original file. It may not be but the answer it is worth a shot. First turn off auto render in the preferences. Then delete the render files from the project. Right click on the .fcpbundle in the finder. Select show package contents. Delete the Render Files folder.
 
circuitt said:
well I finally got FCPX. Mainly for family moves and stuff nothing serious...Got a 2013 Mac Pro 8 core D500, 64 gb ram. Once it finished installing I loaded up a few videos recording on my iPhone....Starting messing around and then I get nothing but a beachball. Have to force quit, when when I relaunch the app same thing....just crazy when you have a brand new mac and a fresh copy of FCPX and it crashes all over the place.
granted my system is restored from a time machine backup of my old system. so worst comes to worst I can reinstall OSX and a million programs, but Id rather not. using Sierra , maybe I should downgrade to el cap?...
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Sorry about the problems. It should work perfectly. I am editing a 10 terabyte documentary on a 2017 iMac 27 using FCPX, and it generally works very well. I have several Thunderbay 4 units; they are very good.

Here is some general advice about resolving FCPX issues. You have already done some of these but read and apply what makes sense: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203477

Also, is there any possibility you are running out of space on your system drive? By default FCPX puts the library on your boot drive and also by default imported media goes into the library -- a so-called "managed library". If creating optimized media, this is about 6x or 7x the size of the original media and all that by default goes inside the library. An OS and all apps should handle out-of-space conditions gracefully but in the real world they may destabilize and crash.

For 1080p H264 content you don't need proxy or optimized media, and you can import that with "leave files in place". IOW you copy the video files from iPhone to your hard drive, then set FCPX preferences to import with "leave files in place". You also normally do not need background rendering so you can usually turn that off.

For 4k H264 content you will usually need to create proxy files and switch the viewer to proxy mode. This is for performance reasons. Just remember to switch it back to optimized/original before export, else the output file will be at proxy resolution.
 
Thanks, I uninstalled FCPX going to reinstall and try with another user account. Could also be one of hundreds of AU plugins I already had pre FCPX that's messing it up. I have a 512 SSD with 300+ gb free.. the six video clips I imported were no longer than 20-30 seconds a piece so maybe 3 minutes in length max.
 
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Well I tried everything in the book, reset permissions, nvram,smc, switched users, memtest for 24 hours, disk utility repair, reinstall OS, safe mode, reinstalled FCPx. I just said screw it and nuked the HD and did a fresh install and it seems fine no Beach balls and or freezing so far. Installing all my audio software, Abelton,NI Komplete,mashine library's, Logic, metric halo ULN8 console, etc will take days to get configured again but I guess it's worth it for a solid system. Perhaps it's from my time mashine back up, I was on El cap on my old Mac then went to Sierra and restored from backup to my new Mac Pro. All well...
 
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Well I tried everything in the book, reset permissions, nvram,smc, switched users, mentest for 24 hours, disk utility repair, reinstall OS, safe mode, reinstalled FCPx. I just said screw it and nuked the HD and did a fresh install and it seems fine no Beach balls and or freezing so far. Installing all my audio software, Abelton,NI Komplete,mashine library's, Logic, metric halo ULN8 console, etc will take days to get configured again but I guess it's worth it for a solid system. Perhaps it's from my time mashine back up, I was on El cap on my old Mac then went to Sierra and restored from backup to my new Mac Pro. All well...
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Good Luck . . . .
Hope all the plug-ins will install correctly.
I did a fresh install of High Sierra a month back and I had to get through a sh*t load of errors with plug-ins on studio one.
Had to get rid of a few vst's that didn't work anymore (or created conflicts). (the AU's worked, but some older projects still used the VST's :-( )
 
circuitt said:
well I finally got FCPX. Mainly for family moves and stuff nothing serious.
Got a 2013 Mac Pro 8 core D500, 64 gb ram. Once it finished installing I loaded up a few videos recording on my iPhone.
Starting messing around and then I get nothing but a beachball. Have to force quit, when when I relaunch the app same thing. I can't do anything. I have a ton of AU's from logic and waves, etc.. took a while to load when scanning all the AU's.
Wondering what it could be.
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I've had problems before where the AUs were the culprit. In recent versions of FCP X, it has been fixed. However, it might be worth a try to move all of your AUs into a temp folder and launch Final Cut without them. You'll have to put them back in when using DAW software or else they'll be gone. Let us know if they're here:
~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components
 
Zwhaler said:
I've had problems before where the AUs were the culprit. In recent versions of FCP X, it has been fixed. However, it might be worth a try to move all of your AUs into a temp folder and launch Final Cut without them. You'll have to put them back in when using DAW software or else they'll be gone. Let us know if they're here:
~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components
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Yeah I tried that too, renamed the folder to plugouts.
I just did a clean reinstall , and now it works like butter alongside all my audio stuff. I don't really trust time maschine anymore, second time it's let me down. But I only get a new Mac every few years so I should be good for a while. What a hassle though.
 
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