That's why we've prepared this handy list of Final Cut Pro X shortcuts. Instead, you can focus on what's important. After all, you don't want to juggle menus while you're trying to playback your content. Since Final Cut Pro X features a robust array of options, shortcuts become almost necessary.
For when you're looking to seriously step into production from start to finish, Final Cut Pro X will help you transition. With it, you can not only edit video, but also experience powerful control over audio, motion graphics, and delivery. I’d love to be proven wrong and shown a simple Clover setting that gets my 280X working as well under HS/10.4 as it does with El Cap/10.3.4.If you're looking to video edit on macOS, Final Cut Pro X should be your go-to. Why do High Sierra and FCPX 10.4 slow down rendering so dramatically? I suspect that both are optimized for Metal rendering rather than Open_CL like El Capitan and FCPX 10.3.4 are, and GPUs like the 280X don’t perform as well for Metal as they do for Open_CL. Since FCPX is what I mostly built this rig for, I’ll stick with the OS and FCPX rev that works best for what I do. On my system BruceX finishes in under 15 seconds on FCPX 10.3.4/El Capitan, and takes over twice that time on FCPX 10.4/High Sierra. Sierra, High Sierra, and especially FCPX 10.4 all slow down the 280X, especially when it comes to Final Cut. I’m staying at El Capitan and FCPX 10.3.4 for now. At least for Open_CL, which is what FCPX 10.3.4 is all about.Īnd yes, I said OS X, not macOS.
Just run the 280X OOB/vanilla, without any injection or DSDT/SSDT edits - it’ll show up as “79xx” in About This Mac but you’ll get the best performance this GPU is capable of under OS X.
For my system, I get the best and most stable performance by NOT ticking the “Inject ATI” box in Clover’s Graphics section. If that doesn’t solve your problem, look at how Clover is set up to handle the 280X. BruceX pins the processing as it begins, and if your power connections are even slightly intermittent, your card simply starves when the current draw shoots up. Unplug them and firmly reseat them again, and see if that fixes the BruceX crashing issue. If you’re seeing slow rendering and/or BruceX crashes, something’s wrong.įirst thing I would check is the power connectors on the 280X. If you’ve got an R9 280X properly configured in Clover, you’ve disabled the Intel HD GPU in BIOS, and you’re running FCPX 10.3.4, you should be seeing BruceX benchmarks of 15 seconds or less, and extremely fast rendering of all Open_CL jobs (be aware that some plug-ins lean more on the CPU than the GPU). I'm backing out of this until I can see that you are prepared to spend some time doing some legwork to actually provide proper information. We know nothing else about what you have done. You also have stated that the BruceX benchmark crashes, but with no error logs. You think the 280X graphics card is slow using FCPX based on no evidence. The people who get the best response and help are those who make things as easy as possible, they provide clear a summary of what they have done, they post simple concise error logs, they try to anticipate the information that might help the responder. The list of things that could help us help you goes on and on but you seem very reluctant to provide any of it. We don't know what you have installed, how you installed it, what your configuration is, what error message you got when FCPX crashed, what exactly were you rendering, what OS you installed. I certainly do not class myself as the expert on this subject, but I do my best to help as other people have helped me in the past. I have two of them and have written extensively on them and how they work on this forum. I know that the AMD 280X cards work very well with a Z98X and a Z87X motherboard. Snow Leopard Laptop are not providing any information to help us help you. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide