Beach ball for 2min 6 times an hr.

Anyone know why I get the Beach ball for 2min 6 times an hr.? Editing ProRess 422

3.2Ghz Quad
6GB RAM
G-tech 7200rpm Drives

Lion
FCP 10.0.3

Really? 6Gigs is not enough, even when working with proxy files? Because I get the beach ball with proxy or full PR 422 files. If it's going to solve the problem i'll go tomorrow to buy more RAM. It's driving me crazy!
Please advise

Like I said, I have 6GB (3x2). Can I buy an 8GB card and add it to the empty slot or do I have to pair up and buy 2 8GB?

More details please, amount of footage, codec, project length, event size etc

Steve Connor
"FCPX Agitator"
Adrenalin Television

You are not using your system drive for media are you?

Are your drives in raid 0 or 5 config?

Fast drives are a must and raid 0 or 5 is really the way to go.

Also invest in DiscWarrior. You may have corrupted directories on your discs, DW will fix this most of the time and speed things up. This happens a lot. I DW my discs every couple months just as maintenance.

Olof Ekbergh

I've found longer sequences can slow down very quickly, if you can, split into 2 projects and see if that helps, also turn off background rendering if you haven't already

Are you using any third party filters or effects?
Steve Connor
"FCPX Agitator"
Adrenalin Television

Slowdowns because of compounding timeline complexity (not length) is unfortunately still an issue not resolved with FCP X. See here:

http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/335/21342

I haven't seen any amount of RAM, CPU or GPU, or even HD speed helping. Resolution of the project also doesn't effect this.

To find out if it is, check the size your "CurrentVersion" file for both your event and your project. AND ALSO ANY EVENT you have in your Final Cut Events folder — even if you are not accessing media from it. I have found that if any of these approaches 80MB things slow down. Can you report back on the size?

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

It has to be an I/O or RAM issue. I switched to proxy and it has gotten allot better. I doubt is the drives because i never had this issue with FCP 7 using these drives.

I have 6GB 3X2GB. Can I buy an 8GB or do I have to buy another 2GB module?

This is an unfortunate bug. The FCP team does know about it, but it wouldn't hurt to give some feedback or even call them about your specific situation. I would request that they make a better solution for "loading" events and projects. It shows not only a problem with the database handling but also that need a built in solution for "ejecting" events and projects.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

16GB RAM seems for me to be a must.

And I also played with media on an SSD and suddenly FW800-Raid0-RAIDs seem so slow...

I'll monitor the console to see, but I doubt is the HD.