FCPX painfully slow and jumpy playback

No slo mo, but most everything is at 60fps, and I do have plugs to drop the sample rate to 30 and 15 on just about every clip except for two.

I did what Tom and terryB suggested, the library bundle size is still the same:

I also moved a copy to a local SSD, and did the same with the deleting generated files, colsolidating, and not creating the render files in the background. File size inthe same on the local storage. It also plays back the same, unworkably slow.

ANy thoughts?

Thanks

yikes, ok i can give that a go.

I don't really need any AUs open in fcpx. Any audio work I do would be in a DAW anyway, and frankly I find it kind of annoying even seeing all these audio plugins in my video program lol. I'd love it if there were a way to disable them from FCPX permanently and leave the available for DAWs that use AUs.

I'm not using topaz on any of these clips (I didn't even know it had plugins!)

Thanks!

Ok, somehow between yesterday and today, the library is down from 500+G to 290MB. That now seems totally reasonable to me. It may have been the Library files as Luis suggested, but either way the library size seems to make sense now.

However, the playback is painfully jumpy and slow still, whether I'm working from the network drive or the copy I moved onto local storage. (the media/clips are still on the network drive even when I open the library from local storage.) here's a screen recording of how jumpy it is, vs the exported file:

screen recording of slow playback in fcpx:

https://youtu.be/J7HFiiFFTeo

compared to the exported file:

https://youtu.be/vc8YbiGUIZU

I opened up an older project on the same network drive that has a comporable amount of plugins and it plays back a bit jumpy, though not nearly as jumpy as this...

Any ideas?

One additional bit - I noticed that when I added a new clip on top, with no effects or plugins or masks or transformations, it plays back fine with no dropped frames or jumpiness.

I think this indicates that the computer is just struggling to keep up with all the plugins?

Ok, I went through and removed the effects one be one to find the culprit. Each removal stage cleaned up the playback just a bit, but the biggest impact was tossing out the scene removal mask. After that, the whole thing played back cleanly and nicely as it should.

I can experiment with this, but does anyone know if creating a new compound clip will print the effects? (ie like rendering in a DAW) so that the processor doesn't have to do that on each playback and just plays the clip? Or is it just a wrapper for viewing convenience?

If not, I suppose I will have to open each clip in a separate project, process the scene removal mask, export the file, and re-import to my music video as a new clip. Which would work, it's just more tedious.

Maybe it's also time to start thinking about a new machine? I'm working on an M1 mac mini with 16GB RAM. I don't really want to move up to a mac studio, as i have the mini racked in a nice enclosure in my recording rack.

Could look at and m2 mini, are they that much better than the m1?

For audio I've always tended to max out the RAM, but maybe i should also be looking at graphics cores if I'm struggling to get videos playing back nicely?