What To Do When Your Mac Slows Down

Posted on by Jeff Riegel, Producer/Editor

by Larry Jordan

Editing video is one of the hardest things you can do on any computer because it requires every piece of hardware and software to work at their best. If your system was working well, but is now slowing down, it’s time to figure out what’s changed.

Are you seeing slow render times, choppy playback, dropped frames or unstable software? Are you suffering through a long bout of SPOD (you know, the “Spinning Beachball of Death”). The more precisely you can define the problem the easier it is to find a solution, because there are a lot of places to look.

[Read on my friends. This article is guaranteed to help!]

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For two decades, Jeff Riegel was a senior level Producer/Editor for the Department of Defense and various government contractors in Northern Virginia. Outside of the workplace, Jeff keeps himself busy with the creation of festival worthy documentaries "Tori Nelson: Fighting for Her Future" and the once nominated and two-time Emmy award winning "A Journey of Education and Remembrance." His short film "The Great Realisation" captured the eyes at 18 international film festivals with various winning honors; a poem that takes on heavy themes such as fevered capitalism, man-made ecological issues, digital addiction during the global Covid blight. Jeff is looking for funding investors and co-producing "The Lost Clipper," a two+ decades project about the first hijacking in U.S. history and the search for those 15 lost souls abducted in 1938, the true first act of war with Japan. Filming takes him to Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii, Canada, and locations across the U.S. (see www.LostClipper.com) He enjoys creating media-marketing social networking campaign for personalities such as 13-time world boxing champion Tori Nelson, Netflix's "Narcos" personalities Steve Murphy and Javier Pena, and renowned landscape photographer Frank Lee Ruggles. Jeff is eager to attack any project head-on. Jeff's Motto: think beyond convention...and consider it done!