Brendan Donohue
June 30th, 2011, 11:43 AM
Alright, so here's my issue...I am running FCS 3 on a 15" MBP (late 2008), 2.53ghz, 8 GB of RAM, 512mb video card...I upgraded the RAM to 8 GB a few months ago and my computer has been running great! FCP has been cutting through footage very well...even the clips that have Magic Bullet on them play sharp with very little stutter and no pixellation..I have been editing off a OWC 1tb external hooked up via firewire 800 with the above setup..has been great up until this week...
So I decided to get FCP X to see what the hype is about...installed without realizing there was a procedure to get both FCP7 and FCPX running on the same computer..after install, I was unable to open FCP 7..freaking out, I immediately uninstalled FCP X using app zapper...when I opened up FCP 7 I noticed that my preferences had been trashed automatically..plugin favorites were gone and the my actual (third party) plugins themselves had been uninstalled/trashed as well. I re-installed my plugins and reset all my preferences (including RT settings) and when I brought a project up to edit, I noticed that FCP was running pretty slow, alot slower than it has been (it's not unusable or anything, just noticeably slower)..this became fully apparent when I played through a clip with Magic Bullet Looks applied and it was all choppy and pixellated...much like it used to run when I had only 4GB of RAM on my computer...it almost seems as if my computer/FCP isn't addressing my full memory anymore...
So far I have repaired permissions (disk utility), reset PRAM and NVRAM, did a full un/reinstall of FCS 3, used Onyx for system maintenance, took out the physical RAM chips and re seated them, all to no avail...I may just be paranoid but I almost feel like my whole system has slowed down since this debacle..startup seems slower as well as opening applications, but may just be imaging that...definitely not imagining the FCP slowdown though!! It was literally running fine one minute and then all the sudden it wasn't
I guess I'm just trying to see if anyone has experienced anything along these lines in regard to FCP 7 or if there is some fix that I'm missing completely that I didn't turn up by searching the forums..this is really frustrating me, I just want FCP to be back to running smooth like it was last week!!
So I decided to get FCP X to see what the hype is about...installed without realizing there was a procedure to get both FCP7 and FCPX running on the same computer..after install, I was unable to open FCP 7..freaking out, I immediately uninstalled FCP X using app zapper...when I opened up FCP 7 I noticed that my preferences had been trashed automatically..plugin favorites were gone and the my actual (third party) plugins themselves had been uninstalled/trashed as well. I re-installed my plugins and reset all my preferences (including RT settings) and when I brought a project up to edit, I noticed that FCP was running pretty slow, alot slower than it has been (it's not unusable or anything, just noticeably slower)..this became fully apparent when I played through a clip with Magic Bullet Looks applied and it was all choppy and pixellated...much like it used to run when I had only 4GB of RAM on my computer...it almost seems as if my computer/FCP isn't addressing my full memory anymore...
So far I have repaired permissions (disk utility), reset PRAM and NVRAM, did a full un/reinstall of FCS 3, used Onyx for system maintenance, took out the physical RAM chips and re seated them, all to no avail...I may just be paranoid but I almost feel like my whole system has slowed down since this debacle..startup seems slower as well as opening applications, but may just be imaging that...definitely not imagining the FCP slowdown though!! It was literally running fine one minute and then all the sudden it wasn't
I guess I'm just trying to see if anyone has experienced anything along these lines in regard to FCP 7 or if there is some fix that I'm missing completely that I didn't turn up by searching the forums..this is really frustrating me, I just want FCP to be back to running smooth like it was last week!!