Working in an environment like this is impossible. The only way we can store students work on networks properly is by using disk images which screw up all the time. The software is also still far too buggy for professional environments. The amount of times I have encountered corrupt projects and backups is stupid.

The software has major potential and I do love it. But working in an environment with software that doesn’t screw up work randomly is more important to me. They are making improvements with each update. But there are major missing features and too many bugs still. I hope it gets sorted because I want to use this software and for it to work properly! It has massive potential.

My guess is that you are VM swapping to satisfy malloc calls (memory allocation requests). This is normally the result of too little physical ram and or too many running applications and is particularly bad on applications with constant media needs (ie disk data access) Lion and mountain lion have far more VM persistence (makes them “snappier” when launching) which requires more physical ram. Shouldn’t really be a problem in this day and age where RAM is dirt cheep (see crucial.com)

At any rate if you are legitimate, No, this is not normal behavior FCPX is an amazing application, groundbreaking. Truly next generation. It is what all editors will be like in 5 years (yes I know avid and adobe are poo-poo’ing now but remember that samesung and goooogle also poo poo’d siri as useless and “you should talk to other people not to you phone” right up until they cloned it.
However it is going to be a long time before anyone can match FCPX’s “story centric” magnetic timeline and real time operation.

And if you are another of the Adobe/Avid trolls, Eff off, think about what you are attempting to do… Keep people away from the best story editing tool available today, at any price.

Poor Randy.

As a long time Apple fan, it is easy to take miracles for granted.