10.1 stability report thread

I updated on Friday ( mid project - serves me right) and have had some stability issues with 10.1. Nothing major but enough to delay project delivery. I thought it would be worthwhile to have a stability thread for 10.1 so those working in time sensitive environments can decide whether to update or wait for 10.0.1.

Here's the film I was working on, it's a mixture of dslr and 4khd epic at 120fps. Timeline rendering format was prores. It was cut on a 2010 MacBook Pro with native footage.



The most common crash I experienced was being dumped out of the program with no warning. No progress was lost in any crash, but on occasion I couldn't restart final cut without dumping preferences. The crash seemed to be related to certain frames on the timeline. There is footage near the end of the film where 120 fps is sped up 5 times to bring it back near normal speed. These clips then have stabilization applied. It's a big ask stabilizing 4k retimed footage but 10.0.9 was solid as a rock.

The other issue I ran into was exporting. I had multiple export crashes but didn't get a dialog telling which frame caused the issue. It crashed at similar percentage each time though, so again I'd guess the issue to be around retimed 4k in the title sequence.

Crashes are to be expected in the first release after such a big update, but it'd be useful to know if anyone else has experienced similar stability issues.

Rather than speeding up the clip did you try using the automatic speed function first.

No I didn't. I didn't know about it. Is it new? I'll have a look for it.

The point of the post is really about stability however. Regardless of the technique used. If the software was without issues, then red should be able to be retimed without dumping you back to the desktop.

It's not new, just the name has changed. It used to called conform. I can't test the stability problem because I don't have that kind of media, but I can't reproduce with 59.94 media.