Spinning Beach Ball then frequent crash when editing movie

Help! I have tried everything; the project I am working on is about 14 min. long, still pics only, with transitions; I had extracted the audio from the clips (a trick I learned after trying to export movies previously) and now when trying to delete the audio extracts, I get looooooooong hang times, and frequent crashes. Also, frequent crashes when just updating transitions, etc. Any suggestions? I have to have this finished soon, it is an anniversary video for my niece's folks.
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Hardware Information: ℹ️
    Mac Pro (Mid 2010)
    Mac Pro - model: MacPro5,1
    2 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon CPU: 12-core
    32 GB RAM Upgradeable
        DIMM 1
            16 GB DDR3 ECC 1333 MHz ok
        DIMM 2
            Empty
        DIMM 3
            Empty
        DIMM 4
            Empty
        DIMM 5
            16 GB DDR3 ECC 1333 MHz ok
        DIMM 6
            Empty
        DIMM 7
            Empty
        DIMM 8
            Empty
    Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
    Wireless: en2: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Video Information: ℹ️
    AMD Radeon HD 7950 - VRAM: 3072 MB
        LED Cinema Display 2560 x 1440
System Software: ℹ️
    OS X 10.9.5 (13F34) - Time since boot: 4:52:33
Disk Information: ℹ️
    HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH61N
    HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH61N
    Samsung SSD 850 PRO 512GB disk0 : (512,11 GB)
        EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
        Macintosh SSD (disk0s2) / : 511.25 GB (494.58 GB free)
        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
    ST2000DM001-1ER164 disk1 : (2 TB)
        EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
        Macintosh HDD (disk1s2) /Volumes/Macintosh HDD : 2.00 TB (2.00 TB free)
USB Information: ℹ️
    General UDisk
    Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub
        Logitech Apple Optical USB Mouse
        Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard
    Apple Inc. Apple LED Cinema Display
    Apple Inc. Display iSight
    Apple Inc. Display Audio
    RME Babyface (23483046)
    Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
    Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions: ℹ️
        /Library/Extensions
    [loaded]    de.rme-audio.driver.RMEFirefaceUSB (2.05 - SDK 10.9) [Click for support]
Problem System Launch Agents: ℹ️
    [failed]    com.apple.uhfu.ledcinemadisplayaudio.plist
Launch Agents: ℹ️
    [running]    de.rme-audio.RMEfirefaceUSBAgent.plist [Click for support]
User Login Items: ℹ️
    iTunesHelper    Programm (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
    Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
    QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
    None
Time Machine: ℹ️
    Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
         1%    WindowServer
         1%    Logic Pro X
         1%    coreaudiod
         1%    fontd
         1%    sysmond
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
    241 MB    Logic Pro X
    137 MB    mds_stores
    137 MB    Safari
    103 MB    com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
    103 MB    WindowServer
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
    29.92 GB    Free RAM
    2.07 GB    Active RAM
    573 MB    Inactive RAM
    1.77 GB    Wired RAM
    491 MB    Page-ins
    0 B    Page-outs
Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
    Apr 9, 2015, 11:37:27 AM    Self test - passed
EDIT:
Okay, apparently there *is* a little problem. This part here:
Problem System Launch Agents: ℹ️
    [failed]    com.apple.uhfu.ledcinemadisplayaudio.plist
I believed this was normal because my audio output was set to the external USB audio interface when I ran the test, but I ran it again with the sound output set to the Cinema Display, and this message still appeared. When I click the Information symbol, it says:
These are low-level parts of your operating system, usually provided by Apple, that run in the background while a user is logged in. Any failure that appears here may indicate a problem with your system.
I can't tell if there's a link to my Logic problem, however.
PS: I just remembered that I installed a system update for the LED Cinema Display which I downloaded from the Apple Support page. Maybe it has to do with that. It may have been an old update that was not needed.

My 2011 MBP has begun running slow with frequent 'spinning beach ball' events. I'm running Yosemite and wondered if I should of use the original install disk for maintenance.

My 2011 MBP has begun running slow with frequent 'spinning beach ball' events. I'm running Yosemite and wondered if I should of use the original install disk for a maintenance reinstall. I presume I'd have to download Yosemite again, though I'd be happy just using Snow Leopard again too.
Thanks for the help.

When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.
Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.
Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

Spinning beach ball for 45-60 seconds, then fine

For several months now, I've had the spinning beach ball issue on my Macbook Pro. Within the first 5 minutes after boot up, the spinning beach ball will occur, seemingly at random (no specific app or action), for 45-60 seconds. While this happens, the system becomes completely unresponsive. But after this occurrence within the first five minutes after startup, it never happens again and everything is fine - until I reboot of course.
I am running Snow Leopard and this problem was happening before I installed Snow Leopard, so that's not it. But one thing I did do, which I am semi-convinced is the culprit, is I replaced my hard drive with a Seagate 500 mb Momentus drive. The actual model # is SEAST9500420AS. I don't know for sure, but that's around the time this issue first started. I know there is/was a spinning beach ball problem with the newer Macbook Pros and they were attributing it to the hard drive which just so happens to be the same hard drive I now have in my Macbook Pro. There was recently an EFI update that seemed to fix the problem for the newer models, but mine is the first generation right when they went to Intel chips (bought mine in April, 2006). Problem is, if it is my drive, this new EFI update that fixes the issue on the new models won't install on mine.
I also did a verify disk and repair disk permissions, but that was no help. Another thing I found going through the discussion groups was that the problem could happen because both the Macbook Pro and the Seagate drive have anti-shock technology that could conflict with one another. So if you disabled the anti-shock on the Macbook Pro, it might solve the problem as it seemed to for some folks out there. But I did that and it didn't help either.
I'm thinking it's my hard drive, but don't know how to fix it. But it could be something I haven't looked at yet or thought of. I've been trying everything the last several months with no luck and it's been driving me batty! What's really strange is it only happens once and always within the first 5 minutes after start up. Anybody have any suggestions? Thanks.

I just finished doing lots of different tests to try to solve my problem. Didn't resolve it, but I did manage to eliminate some things and narrow it down further.
First I removed all my login items and restarted my computer. That didn't fix the problem.
So then I thought it might have something to do with Safari since that's one of the first things I open up when I start my computer and there are numerous reports in the discussions of spinning beach balls with Safari 4.0.3 which I have. So I purposely did not open Safari after startup. Problem still happened.
So then I thought maybe it has something to do with my internet connection. So I disconnected my internet connection and rebooted. Then I only opened programs that don't use online access. I leisurely opened up a program, did a few things in it, closed it, and then did the same thing with another program. Did some things with Finder. Purposely did not rush things. Waited 4-5 seconds after every operation's completion before executing another task. Never had more than one program open at any given time to eliminate any issue with two many resources open. You guessed it - the problem STILL happened. Not that it matters, but it happened when I hit Command-I on my hard drive icon to get the info pane. A fairly innocuous task. Froze up with the spinning beach ball for at least 45-50 seconds. Tried clicking a few other things while this was happening, but nothing. Once it freed up, a few things I clicked on previously suddenly became active and everything was fine again. Tried Command-I for a lot of different things with no problem. Response was instantaneous.
It pretty much happens 3-4 minutes into a session and then never happens again. And I think my test here eliminated several possibilities. Very frustrating. I hope this helps someone come up with a possible solution. Thanks.

Endless spinning beach ball / system crash report

I am now getting the endless spinning beach ball for about 5 minutes every time I go from one application to another. It's often if I've been in Word or Photoshop, & I go back to Firefox to look at emails; it spins & spins before I can do anything. I also had some sort of a crash yesterday while I was out of the room, so I wasn't doing anything. I came back to find the attached long crash report; it means nothing to me. Is there anyone out there who can interpret this? I had to save it in several screenshots as it was very long (& this isn't even all of it). Thanks.

Banks everywhere seem to try to encourage customers to install it, but in my experience (3 bank accounts) they don't insist.
Unfortunately, as I said earlier, it just doesn't seem to work well for many users of OS X (there are numerous threads on here about it). A couple of years ago I installed it when my bank started pushing it but immediately started having kernel panics. Removing it fixed things immediately.
Occasionally someone from Trusteer has appeared on here offering to help, but generally soon disappear when they start getting flack .

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