Mac Pro running slow with FCP...

Hi, I have a Mac Pro OS 10.5.8
FCP version 6.0.1
I've had the computer about 8 months and edited roughly 45 hours of footage on it so far. I use an external hard drive as my scratch disk capacity 931 GB (359 GB available).
About a month ago I started working on audio editing with Soundtrack pro and the computer started doing a lot of thinking and subsequent crashing. Now it seems I can't upload clips any longer than 4 or 5 minutes without FCP crashing and loosing the clip I was trying to upload.
I tried calling Applecare and did an archive and install. I did the software updates. What are the next avenues I should try in order to get my computer up to speed.
I paid a decent amount for the computer, I would expect it be able to handle this type of workload. Any suggestions? Thanks so much!

Have you tried trashing prefs and repairing permissions? It could help.

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Premiere Pro on Mac Pro Running Slow

I just purchased a new 6 Core Mac Pro with 32GB RAM, Dual AMD FirePro D500s, 512GB Solid State Internal Drive and have it connected to a G-RAID 6TB Thunderbolt Drive and Premiere Pro is running pretty darn slow. There are certainly some things that are much quicker than my 2008 Core Duo 2.8 GHZ iMac (such as render times and export times) but if I past a simple effect like "Transform" on a 1920x1080 AVCHD clip on either my iMac or my Mac Pro I will get a red line above it and if I try to play it back it stutters quite a bit. I essentially have to do what I've been doing with my iMac which is either playing my footage at 1/2 or 1/4 resolution after effects are applied or just waiting until I'm completely done with my edit before applying effects (of course there's the option to render everything but this still takes a very long time on the Mac Pro and for a simple effect like Transform I'm very surprised that I would need to render just to play the clip back).
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Jim Curtis wrote:
Thanks, Jason, that's what I was wondering about. Generally, people post to forums when they have problems.
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I make about 60% of my living from Pr, and the rest from Ae and other apps (mostly Adobe).
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So about a week ago my mac pro was running fine as i worked for a few hrs. then all the sudden i was clicking through firefox and i got a rainbow, it lasted ten minutes and i couldn't close the program, when i tried to click anything else it froze as well. I restarted, it went to grey screen froze, restarted itself, the booted as normal and ran fine. Then all the sudden it did again later the next night while working in photoshop. I went through my programs, deleted firefox and msn msgr as culprits, worked ok, then did it again while in safari. I closed everything rebooted, ran ONLY safari and it got the rainbow again. I went and verified my permissions, had some issues repaired them. Same rainbows. I went and tried to verify disk and i got issues with incorrect block count. "volume bit map needs minor repair" "volume header needs minor repair" I rebooted in target disk mode, used my macbook pro to run disk utility and try to repair. Got the same "error: filesystem verify or repair failed." i'm really out of ideas at this point asides reformatting and hoping for the best. Anyone have another solution?

Jonny, Balto's response wasn't particularly helpful. Yes, we know the SBBOD means the processor is busy.
My MBP is doing some of the same things as yours. And unfortunately, the problem seems to be getting worse. I've noticed that when TM starts its backup it just locks up everything. Disk Utility and Disk Warrior are no help.
I'm onto wiping the HD and doing a clean install and see if that fixes things. Best of luck to you and hope someone gets back to you on a possible solution.

Macbook Pro running Snow leaopard can not share screen with Mac Pro running lion with "Back to my Mac"

Anyone else? When I use back to my mac, I can get access to the files on my desktop, BUT, I can't screen share. Screen share is sleected in settings and everything I know to check is set up right. Back to my Mac ir running on both machines using the same sign in.
Any ideas?
Jon

Once you get yourself back to Snow Leopard, if you still want to upgrade somewhat, I would suggest the following:
1. Get an external hard drive that you can use for experiments with new OS versions. You could partition it into 2 or 3 partitions. You could then clone your existing Snow Leopard system to one partition using Carbon Copy Cloner (well worth $40) or SuperDuper ($25).
2. Buy OS X Mountain Lion for $20, through the Apple online store (I don't think it's available through the App Store). Apple has decided to make it very difficult for anyone to get Mavericks unless they have already downloaded it.
You will receive two e-mails from Apple, one containing a PDF with a redemption code, and one with the password you will need to unlock the PDF. Using the code, you will download Mountain Lion from the App Store, where it will appear among your Purchased items.
After ML finishes downloading, its installer app will launch itself. When you see this launch screen, QUIT the install app immediately! Go to your applications folder, find the Install OS X Mountain Lion app, and copy it to a safe location outside of your Applications folder. Keeping one or more copies will allow you to reinstall without unnecessary aggravation if you later need or want to do that. At this point, you can re-launch the Installer in the Applications folder and let it run. You can install it on a clean partition on your external HD, or you can allow it to upgrade the Snow Leopard clone you created on your external drive, or you can do both. This should allow you to test how everything works for as long as you like.
3. If you left yourself a free partition on your test drive, try a clean install of Yosemite and set everything up from scratch (do not migrate anything). This will allow you to see whether your problems with it were related to something in your Snow Leopard system.

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My Mac book pro is running real slow since upgrading from leopard to lion. Takes up to a minute or more to boot up and open some programs like I Photo.

Perhaps you need more RAM or you do not have enough Free Space on your Hard Drive...
See this User Tip by ds store > Why is my computer slow?

Why is my MacBook Pro running slow with spinning rainbow icon?

I currently have a MacBook Pro 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GB running Snow Leopard that is a little over a year old and lately it has been getting really hot on the bottom right corner and will randomly have a spinning rainbow icon when I try to surf the web or multitask. It never did this until about 3 months ago. It now runs very slow at times. What is causing this and how can it be fixed? Thanks.

Go to the bottom of that window and click the submenu "CPU" to see the dynamic read-out of I/O [in and out]. This will give you an overview of the system activity. If you want to isolate one process, then click on it to highlight then look at the read-out.
If the numbers are low with no unusual spikes then you need to look elsewhere to discover the slow down in the system. It might be lack of operating room on the HD. Check your Macintosh HD icon in the upper right of the desktop: highlight and press Command + "I" [⌘I] for Info. If your disk is starting to fill up and there is not enough free space, that can slow down the works.
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Macbook pro running slow with an SSD

I have a early 2008 macbook pro with windows 7 and snow leopard on it. It has been running so slow and im am consistently getting that color wheel.
My display recently started to have the theater/stagelight problem. I don't know what it is and I want to know if my computer is dieing on me?

See if this FAQ helps: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/sbbod.html

Mac Pro running slow

I just recently added 2 GB of Crucial compatible RAM to my computer (actually I think it was New Year's Day). I noticed a sizable difference in how much better my programs were running. Now within the last few days, I'm noticing a slight delay in everything I do. Its kind of annoying. Any suggestions on what I might look for and where? I ran disk utilities lately and there were no permissions that needed repaired. I'm kind of at a loss as to what to look for or what to try next. I'm disappointed this happened after it had been running so well with the memory upgrade. Thanks in advance for any help!

How much free space on the startup disk?
Right or control click the MacintoshHD icon. Click Get Info. In the Get Info window you will see Capacity and Available. Make sure you always have a minimum of 15% free disk space.
Not enough free space can slow the drive down.

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