• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Can’t Open some FCP Project Files after changes have been made and saved

  Posted by Randyp on September 1, 2005 at 7:30 pm

  I’m working on a ten minute promotional video using FCP HD 4.5. The project uses a lot of short clips, 3 to 6 seconds in length and lots of transitions and applied filters from FCP and Boris Red and Boris Continuum. There are many tiles from Live Type. A number of these clips and titles are grouped in nests, and the nests have transitions and filters applied to them as well.

  I’ve had a problem where I cannot reopen my project file after I save a version of the project after working on it for hours, close FCP, and shut down the computer. After restarting, I cannot reopen the project file. I can start FCP by itself, but the project file begins to load, and stops short in the process. I get to send a bug report to Apple telling them about my crash.

  I have had to go back through the Autosave vault (I have my project autosaved every seven minutes because of this problem) until I find a copy which will open, and recreate all the changes I’d made since that point. I did this twice yesterday and today with the same problem. It is not progress to re-re-re-create changes already made. Frustrated is a mild way to describe how I feel about this.

  I’ve tried taking render files and media offline; I’ve run Disk Utility and FCP Rescue; I’ve totally dumped preferences and the FCP POA Cache; I’ve even reinstalled FCP HD 4.5, but none of these have helped my project file to reopen.

  My video files are stored on a Medea 1.2 TB RAID. I’ve tried reseating the cables.

  Any ideas?

  Randy

  Randyp replied 20 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Debe

  September 1, 2005 at 9:06 pm

  Any chance you have imported footage, like unconverted MPEG or anything like that?

  Did you ever have a clip go all green-n-pink-n-pixely on you?

  You’ve already done all the things that would normally be recommended to solve your problem. This makes me think that it’s a piece of corrupt media, rather than FCP doing something wonky.

  If you can track down a piece of corrupt media, dollars to donuts deleting it will solve your problem. Then you just need to re-import it & convert it to a file FCP likes instead of whatever native codec it may be. I’d try exporting it out as a self-contained QT movie with the same settings as the rest off your sequence and then re-import it in. Then I’d delete the original import and get is as far away from my system as possible!! Or better yet, convert it in something else, like QT Pro or Cleaner if you’ve got it.

  That is, if you an isolate the corrupt media.

  Otherwise, I hope someone else has a better solution for you!

  debe
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  Tom Matthies

  September 2, 2005 at 1:33 pm

  I’ve had the same thing happen. I got around it by opening an autosaved version as well. I could reproduce the problem, everytime, by adding a fade-up transition to a PSD graphic on the top layer. (Doctor, it hurts when I do this… Well, don’t do that.)
  Nothing I did would open the original, saved version.
  Not a good trend…something’s getting corrupted in there.
  Tom
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  Randyp

  September 15, 2005 at 6:31 pm

  I still haven’t solved this particular problem, even though I eventually wiped the hard drive and reinstalled everything (backing things up first, of course.) After reinstalling, I ran into a render problem. See my posting “Troubles when rendering in FCP HD 4.5” from September 14, 2005 to find out about that.

  Randy

  Your are:
  1. Untalented but excessively persistent
  2. Unbelieveably stupid
  3. An artist
  4. All of the above

  Normal Rockwell

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