FCPX 11 keeps crashing on me

[Mike Krumlauf]

Recently got a M4 Mac Mini and when I edit footage Ive taken on my RED Dragon 6k in a 6k Timeline, every once and awhile the app will crash. I dont have this problem with davinci studio so im wondering whats causing this? I wasnt having this issue on my M2 Mac Mini.

 

[markfpv]

Mike... hard one to answer with only the info you've posted...
Have you installed the latest version of the Red plug-in for FCP? (assuming you are using native Red files)?
I've no idea if Red is continuing to release updates... as it seems the most recent from a quick online search was from March earlier this year for their Mac workflow installer.

For what it's worth, I was having issues with FCP 10.8.1 crashing a couple weeks back ... which was very unusual for me... and one of my solutions was to delete older plug-in's that I was no longer using (one of them being the Red one). And that seemed to help.

 

[ahalpert]

That's no good! I think markfpv is probably right that it's plugin-related. I'm using the latest version of FCP and not getting crashed. Crashes have been exceedingly rare for me in FCP for a long time.

What do y'all think about the new magnetic mask feature?

 

[markfpv]

What do y'all think about the new magnetic mask feature?

I literally just upgraded to 11 yesterday - as finally in between projects to do so... and had a bit of play with it last night...
Might be handy / useful....too early to know for sure but will try and remember to report back if & when I put it to use. What say you?

 

[ahalpert]

I literally just upgraded to 11 yesterday - as finally in between projects to do so... and had a bit of play with it last night...
Might be handy / useful....too early to know for sure but will try and remember to report back if & when I put it to use. What say you?

I'm really impressed. I mean, so far it's not bulletproof. You can get some weirdness and flickering at the edges. But I've started using it to isolate subjects for different color corrections. For that application, it's not deadly if the edges aren't perfect and i just feather it in. Before I was using a combination of color masking and shape masking to do power windows like that and I think in most cases this will be a big step up.

I also tried it on a shot where I had to replace a background element (a soft-focus painting that was replaced with a photo of the painting). I had done it a few weeks ago by chroma keying out the painting and just got lucky that this particular painting was well-suited to that approach. I tried it with the magnetic mask and that worked too and would be sure to work with a greater variety of backgrounds.