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Crashes
I’m running Final Cut Pro 4.5 on Mac OS 10.3.9 and am running into a lot of crashes. Mostly this will occur when I’m doing work with transitions, but it is not consistent. Working with one clip section heavily seems to trigger it more often, however I haven’t seen a pattern. The preferences have been resett and the Quicktime version is the one recommended. I’m not sure what else to check. Any suggestions?
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14 Replies
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There’s lots of reasons things go wonky, as you probably already know.
What’s your storage?
What model & speed Mac are you using?
What resolution are your working in?
Do you have any anti-virus programs running?
Can you give us a detailed description of you setup? RAM, video card…You’ve already mentioned FCP 4.5, OS 10.3.9, and (guessing) QT 6.5.2.
Just a start!
debe
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Modelinfo:
Power Mac G5
1.5 GB memory
Dual cpu 2 GHz Processors
GeForce FX 5200 64MB vid card
Upwards of 200 GB storage avail. on hard drive.No antivirus programs, and yes, QT 6.5.2. ‘Medium’ video quality in the playback settings.
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Is that 200 GB on a separate drive from the boot drive?
debe
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Yup.
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Dagnabit, you’ve got all the easy answers covered!
When you say the preferences have been reset, you mean the file has been thrown in the trash and regenerated by FCP? Did you use FCP Rescue, or the manual method?
I’m diggin’ deep into my poor little brain and not comin’ up with any suggestions other than run Coctail or MacJanitor or Yasu to clean caches, but that’s really reaching….
Or how about just cleaning out old render files from FCP?
debe
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I got rid of the preference files manually just chucking them in the trash and resetting everything myself. I have not cleaned the chaches yet, so I will try that. If anything else comes to mind I’ll be glad to hear it.
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Andrea & Debe: I’ve been having similar problems, incl freezing up in timeline at dissolves, especially during “Print to Video”.
G4 single processor, 1.47GHz, 256kb L2 cache, 2meg L3 cache, memory: 1.12 gig; speed 133MHz, OS X.3.9, FCP 4.5; quicktime 7.0.2
No media is on the startup drive BUT my boss insists on putting the FCP project files there, in a folder (is that bad?)Any tips on if I should go down to 10.3.8 / lower QT gratefully received: but I really want QT Pro capabilities & we’re in the midst of a project so really dont want to upgrade to FCP5.
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Project files should be on your boot drive, not a media drive, so that’s good.
You shouldn’t be using QT7 with FCP 4.5. That may be the problem.
Can you revert back to QT 6.5.2 Pro?
debe
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I take that back, they don’t NEED to be on your boot drive, they just shouldn’t be on a media drive. If you have a third drive for documents or whatever, the project file could go there, but since most of us have a boot drive and the rest are media drives, the default is that the project file ends up on the boot drive.
debe
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Is this a project that was started on a previous version of fcp and then updated to 4.5 ? I had similar experience when doing so… slow trimming, dropped frames (even on an empty part of the timeline! ), some random crash while browsing/trimming.
I don’t have a solution, but if my memory is right, some ppl got positive results by recapturing the media. But then you’ll need to watch out the speed changes becase half of them will be screwed…
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