• Apple Final Cut Pro

  Black magic driver(s) crash FCP X constantly

  Posted by Bret Williams on February 29, 2016 at 10:02 pm

  Black magic has had a few updates to their drives since El Cap, but none of them fix the crashing issue. If I’m outputting via ultra studio express while editing, you can expect X to crash hard without warning in 5 minutes or so. And the odd thing is that any render files associated with motion titles and templates get trashed too. Sometimes that’s a half hour of rendering down the drain. REALLY ticking me off about now. BMD could give a rats…

  Jeremy Garchow replied 10 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  Jeremy Garchow

  March 1, 2016 at 1:06 am

  FCPX 10.2.3 really sucks at video out.

  I don’t have crashed, but lots of freezes. Airplay is much better at this point, and that’s saying something.
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  Don Walker

  March 2, 2016 at 7:49 pm

  New drivers are out today! I’ve been having some video freezing issues, hope to see an improvement.

  don walker
  texarkana, texas

  John 3:16
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  Don Walker

  March 2, 2016 at 9:21 pm

  [Don Walker] “New drivers are out today! I’ve been having some video freezing issues, hope to see an improvement.”

  Don’t bother, worse than before. I may buy a AJA T-tap or IO before the day is over!

  don walker
  texarkana, texas

  John 3:16
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  Bret Williams

  March 2, 2016 at 10:06 pm

  I actually went back a driver (so that’s 2 back I guess now) just to drop the crashes from once every minute to about once every five. I have figured out that playback won’t crash it. It’s when you’re actually editing/trimming. So I basically have been editing with it off, and toggle it on for client playback. I have a hot key (f17) to toggle it on/off. Can’t set it up in FCP X, but you can map it in system prefs keyboard shortcuts.
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  Bret Williams

  March 8, 2016 at 6:31 pm

  I’m looking at the Ttap as well. 10.6.1 driver didn’t solve any issues for me either. I can play back, as long as that’s all I’m doing. No scrubbing, trimming or anything. But I always forget to turn the monitoring back off.

  Having an external is extremely helpful for motion graphics. You can see the 100% view on the external, while you’re zoomed in to 500% on the screen to create a mask or whatnot. I miss having that capability, plus the crashing is making me nuts.

  I blame El Cap.
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  Jeremy Garchow

  March 11, 2016 at 4:44 am

  I caught your cold, Bret. Things are crashy now.

  I think 1080psf23.98 is less crashy than 1080p23.98.

  Crash report points to Blackmagic drivers.

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