• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  major crash issues

  Posted by Nate01 on December 2, 2005 at 7:21 am

  Hi all-

  I’ve run into a crashing problem with my current FCP system that I cannot get past.
  I am running FCP 4.5 on the latest version of Tiger and working on a feature documentary with 200 hours of footage captured at offline (Photo Jpeg) resolution.

  FCP has been crashing (unexpectedly quitting) or stalling/getting hung up (beach ball) frequently and inconsistently and just for a half of the day today. It would happen every two to 20 minutes randomly- not consistently on the same footage, not consistenly during the same action.

  I trashed my preferences, deleted an “-av” files from my external media drives, repaired disk permissions, then disconnected the external drives and just ran final cut to view some media that I’ve kept on my internal HD (only one in there- 150 gb). Viewing this footage caused an FCP crash as well, so I know it’s not an external drive issue. Then, I reinstalled FCP, repeated a lot of the previous steps– no dice. Then reinstalled TIger. Crashed again.

  I left my edit suite without solving the issue.

  The hardware:
  G5 Dual 2ghz
  2 gb RAM
  2 External lacie firewire 800 drives (a 160 and a 250 gb)

  I have heard this may be a RAM issue, but the cards are practically brand new and came from apple.

  Any ideas?

  Thanks,
  Nate

  Nate Smith
  nh******@***il.com

  Nate01 replied 20 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Frank L. jr.

  December 2, 2005 at 12:26 pm

  What version of Tiger are you running?
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  Nate01

  December 2, 2005 at 1:23 pm

  I’m not in front of the system, but I believe it’s 10.4.3.

  Also, the only ‘change’ I can remember to the system was that the power was accidentally shut off at the breaker to the entire set-up yesterday. All of the problems started after this.

  Nate

  Nate Smith
  nhpsmith@gmail.com

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