Final Cut Pro is slow all of a sudden

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Final Cut Pro is slow all of a sudden

Using a 2020 MacBook Air with M1 chip, Final Cut Pro is slow all of a sudden. Any little change (pause, move clip, fast forward, etc.) in the timeline I get a spinning beachball lasting 2-15 seconds. With hundreds of these little moves in any hour, more than half of my time is spent waiting. I feel as though I'm missing something. Not using an external hard drive. Library is 300mb total. Background rendering is off. Using optimized media. I would greatly appreciate your help! Below is my etrecheck report:

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MacBook Air 13″, macOS 13.2

Posted on Mar 10, 2023 9:27 AM

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terryb

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Mar 10, 2023 10:01 AM in response to RoyGlysseo

Thank you for posting the Etrecheck report. Nothing jumps out at me as unusual. Maybe others will spot something.

Whenever FCP crashes or starts acting strangely an easy thing to try is resetting the preferences. Hold option and command while launching FCP and choose Delete Preferences. It will open the default Untitled library. Re-open the library you were working on, set the preferences back to the way you like them (disable background rendering, reset Import to Leave Files in Place, etc.) and see if the issue has been resolved.

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RoyGlysseo Author

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Mar 10, 2023 10:28 AM in response to terryb

I'll do that. Can spilled water gradually slow a computer? I spilt water on my MacBook keys a month ago. I let it properly air out, cover off, for one day before I turned it back on. Might this be a cause?

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terryb

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Mar 10, 2023 10:41 AM in response to RoyGlysseo

Water and electronics don't usually mix very well, but I'd think it would be a dramatic failure not a gradual thing.

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Final Cut Pro is slow all of a sudden

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