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Hi all,
I have a Macbook Pro 13inch Early 2011, 320 HD, OSX 10.8.3 2.3 GHz with 4 GB of memory. I use Final Cut X about once a week for editing, but it's literally frying my laptop. When I open it, I can't have any programs running. FC and my laptop become slow and unresponsive about once every ten minutes. I save all of my projects on my external HD and I have the background rendering turned off. Is there any solution for FC being this slow? I'm doing the editing to save up for a 15 inch MBP, but for now I have to use my 13inch. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Put your events and projects on an external Thunderbolt or Firewire 7200 RPM drive.
Maintain at least 25% free space on your boot drive.
Use proxy clips.
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