FCP 10.1 Crashes Daily

Absolutely the latest hardware and software - still no saving this buggy code from crashing daily. Running FCPX 10.1 on MacBookPro with 16GB ram and 1 TB flash disk. Clean computer - with a licenced copy of Microsoft Office and eval version of Adobe Photoshop. FCP crashes daily - sometimes 5 or 6 times - have it captured on my cell phone if anyone cares to see it.

Letest version has many stupid bugs: downloaded Extra Audio content gets lost - requires a restart to get it back - which is uber annoying since the software crashes so often. Must avoid looking at the video effects - doing so seems to cause a crash (memory leak?); especially so, if timeline slider bar (can’t recall what the proper term is) is hovering over an applied effect, looking at the effects in the effects browser will causes the Mac and/or FCP to crash soon thereafter. There are other annoying issues as well, but the crashing is the ABSOLUTE WORST.

Apple - PLEASE fix this!!!!!! Don’t make me go back to Windows…I’ve been suffering since Windows 3.11 and am sooo disappointed with FCP. I LOVE My MacBookPro and it’s phenomenal retina display. I even love using Mac OS Maverics! But FCPX is not usable in a professional environment due to the frequent crashes.

And PLEASE don’t issue any more buggy software releases unless your testers have thouroughly tested them!! Do not do what Microsoft does - I want to use the software I paid hard-earned $$$ for - not debug it for you. I purchased this computer and FCPx ONLY for video editing and so far I’m very disappointed….

FCP runs well when it runs, and has a lot of great features over Priemere, but the crashing is not acceptable. This (crashing) is such a huge problem that your software engineers have removed the “SAVE” button since FCP keeps a continuous back-up of the work (== HUGE WASTE OF HARD DISK CAPACITY). For example, my 26GB of videos (rendered in HD1080p) consumed ~300GB of disk space (due to FCP converting all imported files to 4.2.2 HD format), and another ~150GB of garbage (intermediate back-ups) over the past two weeks of editing home videos. My 1TB HDD is half full already and I’ve only had this system for 3 weeks!

James Larson about Final Cut Pro, v10.1