My rendering is so slow, even though I have moved my files off of the hard drive. There are 80 some gigabites left, so there should be enough room. Any thoughts?

I'm an audio guy so I'm not sure how FCP handles that, but does it have a separate setting for a scratch disk, maybe it's that disk that's a little too full..? Or maybe insufficient RAM, or a particular video codec..? I've linked a basic FCPX course to the thread, perhaps a FCP guru will notice and weigh in with some advice.. I also found these pages from Apple, maybe something helpful there..? https://support.apple.com/guide/final-cut-pro/manage-render-files-ver68a8c250/mac https://support.apple.com/guide/final-cut-pro/background-rendering-ver717f3ca3/mac https://support.apple.com/guide/final-cut-pro/set-storage-locations-ver7db6ffe77/10.5.3/mac/10.15.6

Hi Joe, Hmmmm. Where would I find the scratch disk?

It has 1 gb of ram

> It has 1 gb of ram.. Typo? I added links to some Apple pages, I think one of them was about where FCP stores stuff, but again, I'm an audio guy, I'm not sure if that even applies to FCP..

Slow rendering is usually due to a complex effect, though it could also be due to a full hard drive. There's no setting for a scratch disk, it'll just use the library's location for render files, if any. RAM probably isn't relevant, but you have more than 1GB! Essentially, make sure your library is on a fast drive with plenty of space and most effects will render quickly. 80GB is not a lot of free space on most drives, though.

Hi there Iain, I am trying to follow your directions. I have a really old mac. A imac g5. The hard drive has 233.64gb on it and I removed the stuff clogging it. I have 86.77 gb free. However I think I need to clear something else.

Thank you very much!

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but an iMac G5 is very, very old, and can't run the current Final Cut Pro. You might be running a very old version of FCP? Regardless, you're going to see pretty slow performance on a Mac that old. Clearing hard drive space will probably have minimal impact, and at this point you're almost certainly better off moving to a new Mac if possible.

Ok. Thanks! I am running fcp 6 on it because that matched what was on my television station 9 years ago when I edited my movie. I am just trying to get some simple editing done.