

When you edit in your timeline and you add a clip that uses a different codec that you're editing in, or you add a color adjustment, keyframe an image, add lower third and other items that require rendering for playback in high quality, the render indicator (a light gray dotted line) appears below the ruler at the top of the timeline. Rendering is the process of creating temporary video and audio render files for segments of your project that Final Cut Pro can’t play in real-time. You can switch the mode in the Preferences > Performance > Advanced Settings dialog. If you are on macOS 10.15 or newer, you can also check if using Metal instead of OpenCL offers better performance. We have created this video for more guidance: If you need a more accurate measurement (for example, before starting a several hours render), you can also measure the time needed to fully process a short project with Neat Video in Final Cut and adjust settings accordingly. The ‘Check speed’ button is helpful for a quick speed estimation. Try experimenting with the slider and see what value gives you better result. On the other hand, giving Neat Video too little GPU memory will make the filter itself slower. Allowing Neat Video to use too much GPU memory may cause the denoiser and other GPU users (including Final Cut) to hinder each other, which will lead to some extra slowdown. When the test is complete and you see the best speed Neat Video can achieve on your computer (please keep in mind that the number of the FPS in this test shows the maximum speed that Neat Video can reach without the overhead of Final Cut and other effects using the same resources), click the Accept Best Combination button.Īlso check the GPU memory usage reported in Preferences > Performance page. In FCP X's Inspector panel, go to Neat Video’s Options window, then to the menu Tools > Preferences > Performance > Optimize Settings… and click Start.

That will allow the denoiser to achieve the best performance. Every time you start working on a new project that needs denoising, it is worth making sure that Neat Video is set to use optimal hardware parameters. Things always work better if you get the main settings right from the beginning. The good news is there are ways of making video editing less annoying and more enjoyable for you. Neat Video maybe not very fast itself, but there may also be other components that can cause an extra slowdown still. If some components of the project are especially slow, then this can cripple the responsiveness of Final Cut as well.If available computing resources (CPU cores and GPUs) are not used efficiently, then the speed of processing suffers too.A shortage of those resources can cause an additional slowdown in processing of each frame. Working with large resolution video requires more system memory and more GPU memory.If you start playback, then Final Cut will skip frames because of that as well.
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Final Cut cannot update the preview quickly enough anymore and you have to wait. If the processing time of each individual frame is large, then smooth playback and quick update of preview becomes technically impossible.
