Performance Struggles

[flickh]

I finally figured out what to drag where to get this working in FCPX - I couldn't drag anything to the drop zone, I had to click "Import Media File" and find the clip there. But it works great, other than my computer struggling with the playback. I'm on an M1 Max Macbook Pro with 64GB Ram... but playback of my 4k BRAW files are unwatchable, plus the whole thing is freezing up, or rather, continuing to play but unresponsive.

Are there any tricks for performance improvement, before I run out to buy a new MacBook?? I was hoping to wait for the M5.

I switched to "Better Perfomance" but it's still barely better. I imagine rendering proxies would defeat the whole purpose? Would Gyroflow play the lightweight Proxies but stabilized with the BRAW data? Only one way to find out, lol...

Failing that: Right now my plan is to turn off stabilization until I've done an edit, then re-activate and render the timeline. I'm not sure how workable this is at the moment...

[flickh]

Nevermind, of course Proxies are not available with all this recursive drop-zone abstraction! Rendering the timeline, or toggling the stabilization on and off seems like the way. But of course it is not easy to edit if you can't see whether your hand-held footage is stable enough to cut into the movie, haha.

[latenitefilms]

I assume you're using BRAW Toolbox? Have you tried using the BRAW Toolbox Media Extension that has Gyroflow built-in?

[flickh]

Ah, I rewrote my post after I figured something out and didn't remember to include that info. Yes, I'm using BRAW Toolbox as an extension but I don't see Gyroflow anywhere within it... that's why I paid another $12 or whatever for the Gyroflow Toolbox plugin.

[latenitefilms]

See: https://brawtoolbox.fcp.cafe/media-extension/

[flickh]

Ah ok - that is easier isn't it? Thanks. But I'm still confused - did I still need to buy Gyroflow toolbox for that to work?

Why did I get instructions about importing everything as compound clips with the audio in a different file, in a folder I had to choose - creating generated black solids with the effect applied? Feel like I spent a whole day struggling with this workflow, which is what the interface kind of guides you into. I feel like the terrible performance was related to that convoluted workflow.

But I still can't actually make Gyroflow work, except by adding it as an effect. What am I doing wrong? I walked through my process here, sorry if I am mumbling a bit... basically the Gyroflow effect works if I add it to the clip, but in the RAW interface built into the clip via metadata button, it does nothing.

https://vimeo.com/1187556416/07caf560e4?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci