FCP X freezes

Everytime I write a text in the inspector FCp X freezes. I have to force quit and start again. But I could never edit the text once it opens again.
I just bought FCP X and I am really liking it except it slows down my computor alot and fcp freezes regularly ! Can you help me find why this is happening ?

Don't type into the inspector, double-click the title in the viewer and type directly in there.
If you can increase your RAM, that would be a good move.
Andy

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Stopping the camera/disconnecting it from the computer/turning it off keeps the machine frozen, and pressing the escape key doesn't work either. My PB has just recently been formatted, with a fresh install of everything.
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I spent 2 days trying to get it to digitize properly. I trashed all 4 preferences in the preference file of the user pane at least twice. I turned off the "stop at drop frame" option. I safe booted the machine and repaired permissions. I went back to the user pane and told it to "Warn me after capture". I played with all those settings with no joy. After changing the setting to warn me after capture I digitiized 3 clips sucessfully and the forth clip and beyond had timecode breaks again. Again I checked the tape frame by frame and there are no breaks. I tried to capture 1 clip at a time, without success and Logged and Captured also without success. Actually there were a couple clips that had no breaks but the software completely ignored the Out Point I had set and ran 5 minutes over before I aborted it. As a further test I went back to Media100 and the capture went off without a hitch. On the clips that were successful the audio sounds like crap. The audio drop outs were enormous. Mixdown helped only marginaly.
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I think it's safe to say that FCPX wasn't tested throroughly for use on anything.
with that out of the way, there are many variables as to what might cause your problems, but I don't think it's the mac mini as long as it meets the specified minimum requirements (especially the graphics card).
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Old comedians joke: Doc it hurts when I move my arm like this...then don't move your arm like that
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x

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http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/specs/
Check the spec of your graphics card. If it's listed here, it's not suitable:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4664
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