• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP Project empty, but still huge file

  Posted by Dank_elly on March 1, 2007 at 2:04 am

  I have a project that conttinues to crash, it has multiclips, audio, plain old video, graphics, and sequences. Originally I thought that the problem was from having too many sequences in the project, or maybe too much media. The original FCP file was 450MB !!!! huge! I watched the file size change as i deleted the assets of the project file out. In total it dropped maybe 80MB after deleting everything! Don’t worry this is a duplicate… After deleting everything though my empty project file was still huge, 377MB!!!! Any ideas of cause or solution???? PLEASE!

  Bret Williams replied 19 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Debe

  March 1, 2007 at 3:20 am

  It sounds like your project file has become corrupt. You might do better creating a new project rather than trying to salvage a corrupt one.

  Try starting a new project and copying your current sequence into it, then save it as a new project with a new name.

  If that seems to work okay, then you can try to copy your essential clips and bins and other Browser items to rebuild the project file in a trim and fit form.

  debe
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  Bret Williams

  March 1, 2007 at 7:34 am

  Have you saved it and closed the project? The size isn’t going to shrink until the undo cache has completely cleared.

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