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FCPX Panorama Causes Crash

DogCatMSMac

DogCatMSMac

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Nov 21, 2014
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I'm trying to add a panorama created from several pictures to a video but if you attempt to add it to the timeline or even click on the panorama, FCPX crashes immediately. I have created another panorama which does not do this. Any idea what is going on or how to make the panorama usable? Thanks. Using 10.4.8 with latest Catalina.
 
What are the dimensions of the pano that works and the dimensions of the one that crashes FCPX?
 
The pano that works is 11855 x 3139, the one that doesn't work is 30844 x 3919. I see that although FCPX crashed the large pano did make it to the end of the timeline but about the left 25% was just "noise", not a picture. Perhaps there is a limit to size.
 
The large pano has now magically recovered the noisy 25% and has left me with a complete usable panorama in the timeline, this usable pano is 30844 x 3919, the same dimensions of the one that didn't work. However, if you even hover the cursor over the large pano in the library FCPX will crash immediately.
 
Sounds to me like your Mac is painfully underpowered to be working with images THAT size.
 
DogCatMSMac said:
I'm trying to add a panorama created from several pictures to a video but if you attempt to add it to the timeline or even click on the panorama, FCPX crashes immediately. I have created another panorama which does not do this. Any idea what is going on or how to make the panorama usable? Thanks. Using 10.4.8 with latest Catalina.
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What are the specs of your computer? As @lin2log mentioned, your computer might be the culprit as it might be under powered to handle something that large.
 
That image assuming it's 8bit/channel and and has an alpha included by FCP would be at least 500mb uncompressed in RAM. I wonder if some of the libraries can't handle the conversion from one format to another without failing.
 
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Here are the system specs and pano size. I'd appreciate recommendations on what specs you should have to deal with videos. I'm not a pro but wold like to get more into videos-
- 2017 5K 27" iMac
- 3.8GHz Quad Core i5
- 40GB of memory, 2400Mhz DDR4
- Radeon Pro 580 8GB video card
- I worked with the same pano in different formats with the same results, a 14.9MB jpg and a 21.1MB HEIC
Thanks!
 
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