Why is FCPX so slow?

The whole computer churns to almost a halt. Using the most up to date 17i Mac Book Pro with 8GB memory. Just done exactly the same project in a trial Adobe Premier and it sped through! I cant edit with a client on FCPX as its embarasing! I want to use FCPX but cant!

Hmm what codec are you using? Are you optimizing and making proxy media when you import media? You really have to import using proxy and optimization with projects longer than 10 minutes. Also you should have 16GB of RAM minimum. Another thing that helps is to put the media on a drive seperate from the boot/system drive and you want the media drive to be fast as can be. I'm currently edting a feature in FCP X with 4 drives in a RAID 0 configuration on a 2009 mac pro.
The experience is pretty snapy when you edit without any audio waveforms displaying and playback in Proxy mode.
Seems that apple was not really upfront about what kinda of setup one needs, but we can find out on these forums what an editor really needs.

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omar.m wrote:
Somewhere else, I was told that disgruntled Apple users where going to Adobe and leaving FCPX
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omar.m wrote:
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omar.m wrote:
Why does FCPX have a bad reputation?
I've read that it's not backwards compatible with previous version
That *****! But... doesn't effect me as I'm coming in as a new user
Because when it was released many features that editors were relying on/accustomed to were missing (XML support to name only one at random) which caused many to switch to Adobe or Avid. That fact that some of these features were added back in subsequent updates didn't really seem to repair the damage.
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