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Final Cut Pro HD 4.5 won’t open. Bypass audio plugins?
I just had to reformat my computer and now I cannot get FCP to open. I am mainly an audio person and so I have a lot of audio plugins being used with MOTU’s Digital Performer and Logic Pro. These include Wave Platinum Native and Native Instrument’s Komplete 3, among many others. So, what happens is this. The program starts to open and then starts looking at the audio plugins. After approximately 15 minutes of going through them, it stops and a window comes up asking me if I want to report this to Apple, try to Reopen the program or just stop. I have done this at countless times over the past 4 days and it never makes it through all the audio plugins. I have started from an external drive and rebuilt my disc and repaired disc permissions, many times. I have had Techtool4 repair the disc, I have had Disk Warrior repair and rebuild and I have even had Norton Disk Doctor look at it. Nothing I do can get the program to boot. I have zapped the PRAM. I ran the Apple Pro applications program. I am at a loss. I just reinstalled FCP 4.5 and that did not help. By the way, LogicPro and DP both work with all the plugins installed, so I don’t think that it is the plugins. Does anyone have any ideas? Can I bypass the audio plugins on startup and add them in after the program opens? If that’s possible, do you think that would help? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Dual 2.5GHz PowerPC G5 with 6.5 GB memory running OS X V10.4.4 /Waves 5/DP 4.6.1/Logic Pro 7.1.1 -
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Through some help from the Creative Cow web-site and some other discussion threads, I figured it out. The offending audio plug-ins were Amplitube and Reaktor and Reaktor5. All were in the HD/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components folder. I had rebuilt and repaired everything countless times so there truly was nothing left that was corrupt. It was just a matter of finding the incompatible components and placing them in another folder on my desktop, so I could access them again when I need to use them in my sequencer programs. Once I removed the offensive plugs, FCP went through everything else (still slowly) and approved them. FCP finally opened and on the consequent loads, everything happened much faster.
Someone (Apple?) needs to devise a way for audio components to reside in a folder and be flagged in such a way as to tell an App NOT to try to load those specific components. Like I said in my earlier post, Logic Pro and Digital Performer have no problem loading those components, only FCP. And, they’re not components that I would ever see myself using in FCP.
I hope this helps someone else avoid 3 days of frustration and no clear answers to be easily had.
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Hi There:
I am having the same issue. I read your post about moving the IK components. My question is, do you have to drag back those components every time u want to use them in logic? I am also an audio person and I use final cut just for small video edits but my main application is Logic. I don’t really want to drag components to the plugins folder every time I want to use them in Logic. Did u find a way to open Logic and Final cut without having to mess around with the components?. I hope my question makes any sense. Thanks a lot!
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This was 4 years ago – hard to remember. Basically, I think that I created a folder with the offending plugins and kept them on the desktop to be used when and if I wanted to use them in my audio programs. I don’t remember if there was some method to stop them from being scanned by FCP, sorry. Also, I am about to install the latest version of FCP – very curious to see if this issue has been resolved …
Dual 2.5gig G5 with 6.5 gigs RAM. Running OSX v 10.4.6 Digital Performer 5 Aurora Igniter X Final Cut Studio 5.1
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Hi there: Thanks for the reply. Just to let you know, I had this issue with the latest FC Pro version which is 7. I moved the IK plugins and it worked. I am going to try to find a way to skip the plugins scan on FC. With logic I am able to do that using the AU manager. I hope FC has a similar feature. Anyway, thanks a lot! Ah by the way my system is a macbook pro Intel i5, 2.4 Ghz and 4 GB Ram
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I’m having the same problem today, September 30, 2010, in FCP Version 7.0.3. Also primarily an audio person on Logic, there’s no problem with Logic, and if there were, the AU Manager would take care of it.
I’m not familiar enough with FCP to know whether or not there is AU Mgr-equivalent.
Anyone know?
Thanks
TW
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