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machenryr

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Jan 25, 2016
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I'm new to FCPX so please bear with me. I shot three videos yesterday of my bands rehearsal. Three takes of the same song. 4 camera shots, one camera for each musician. I started a new event and dragged all the clips in there. I multiclipped the first take. No problem. Suspiciously fast. Worked.

The second take took longer to multiclip. Oh, one of the clips from a specific camera took a lot of time verifying the clip. But eventually it worked. Opened it into a new project, trimmed the beginning, started editing the views. About 3 minutes in many of the views are blank. There IS video there. I figured it needed to wait for transcoding. I opened the background task box. After 29 hours it still hasn't rendered or finished. I decided to walk away from it. I just now opened. I get a warning when I go to quit - background tasks haven't finished. Are you SURE you want to quit. So now I'll quit. I figured something got hung up. Perhaps quitting will fix it.

Now for my question - Is there anything I have to do to hurry this along? New 2019 7,1 Mac Pro 16 core 160 GB ram.
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Oh yeah. I'll try rebooting MP because quitting FCPX and restarting didn't fix it.

Also I hit play and I get a spinning beachball for 10 seconds, I hear a click and it doesn't play.
 

MSastre

macrumors 6502a
Aug 18, 2014
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I'm new to FCPX so please bear with me. I shot three videos yesterday of my bands rehearsal. Three takes of the same song. 4 camera shots, one camera for each musician. I started a new event and dragged all the clips in there. I multiclipped the first take. No problem. Suspiciously fast. Worked.

The second take took longer to multiclip. Oh, one of the clips from a specific camera took a lot of time verifying the clip. But eventually it worked. Opened it into a new project, trimmed the beginning, started editing the views. About 3 minutes in many of the views are blank. There IS video there. I figured it needed to wait for transcoding. I opened the background task box. After 29 hours it still hasn't rendered or finished. I decided to walk away from it. I just now opened. I get a warning when I go to quit - background tasks haven't finished. Are you SURE you want to quit. So now I'll quit. I figured something got hung up. Perhaps quitting will fix it.

Now for my question - Is there anything I have to do to hurry this along? New 2019 7,1 Mac Pro 16 core 160 GB ram.
[automerge]1590844416[/automerge]
Oh yeah. I'll try rebooting MP because quitting FCPX and restarting didn't fix it.

Also I hit play and I get a spinning beachball for 10 seconds, I hear a click and it doesn't play.

Most people keep background rendering off, then render manually when needed. For the best help with FCP X go to Apple's Final Cut Pro X Forum. Some very helpful experts there.
 
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