Do you want to learn some quick and easy ways you can speed up Final Cut Pro X today?
If you want to learn that, stay tuned! Hey there I'm Mark Brown from
Editors Keys. Now if you're into Final Cut Pro X or filmmaking consider
subscribing to this channel because that's what we're all about! Now if
you're trying to edit 4k footage on MacBook Pro or an older Mac you know it
can really slow down sometimes. So in this video I'm gonna show you some
little tweaks you can make to Final Cut Pro X to make it run much faster than
ever before! You know we've all been there when we've tried to import 4k
footage into Final Cut Pro X you get it on the timeline you add a title or
something and it just slows down super slow so let's jump into the tips and
I'll show you how you can speed it up today.
Tip 1 - Now the first tip is to turn on better performance.
Go over to the drop-down box here and tick this option
now this just might be enough to make it run fast enough for you and it will
certainly help now you will notice it will decrease the quality of the footage
but it will certainly boost a performance.
Number 2 - after this
pull up your media import window under this transcoding section you can select
between two options now to help Final Cut run faster tick this box here to
create optimized media and this will basically create pro res files from your
original video footage and they basically run much faster in Final Cut
Pro 10 then if you're working with 4k or really high-end footage like red cameras
or the new Blackmagic camera tick this box here and underneath where it says
create proxy media when you close this down go to your drop down box here and
then you can switch from optimized original to proxy this will make your
entire editing process smoother and it will make it easier to edit but just
remember when you're ready to export switch back to the original tip 3
another useful tip to speed up Final Cut Pro 10 is to show your clips in this
mode now when you scroll to this section where your clips are they do have to
render a little bit first before showing you previews so instead
go over to this icon here and make it into ListView instead this
actually really helps speed up final cut and it's only going to render the little
film strip here at the top tip for this one is to change the clip appearance go
down to the bottom right of your screen and click on this icon here the one at
the far right will usually be the best option Final Cut Pro.
Tip 5 is to close unused windows so to close down the inactive windows that you're not using
at the time pressing CMD + 4 will close down your inspector and then
hitting CMD + 5 will close down your effects panels you know when all your
panels are open this will actually use a little more CPU so canceling this out
whenever you can can be a really efficient way of speeding up your
software and you know every little helps
Now finally Tip 6 is to make sure that
you use an external hard drive you know it can seem like an easy option to edit
from a folder on your desktop but this will really slow your computer down and
Final Cut Pro down when you're video editing and this really applies to all
video editing software you have to remember that if you're writing an
encoding media to your internally built hard drive of your Mac or your PC you're
reading and writing to the same disk that you're using for final cut and the
application to run so you really want to be writing that media to an external
hard drive and this will seriously speed up your editing workflow so there we go
I hope those tips have really helped you now if you know any tips that I haven't
mentioned here in this video please leave a comment below as I'd love to
hear from you and I can include that in a future video to help other people so
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