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EMREGENCY – FCP won’t open!
…and the spot is due today, of course! Last night it was saying i needed to change the scratch disk after i had moved some files around (and i think mistakenly had deleted the render file folder…though this hasn’t caused problems in the past), but this morning FCP won’t even open. i’ve tried it from the dock as well as double clicking the FCP file project itself…
please help quickly if you have any ideas THANKS!
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when this happend to me i did the following:
click on library; go into preferences; find folder “final cut pro user data” & com.apple.finalcutpro.plist & Delete them. then open FCP. you have to choose all your preferences again & re-render everything but that at least worked for me.
mike
“Rage against the Dying of the Light”
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wow…amazing what a few moments of rational thought…and a cup of tea, will do for a bonehead like mine! thanks for your input, and i had thought of doing the prefs again right after sending my “emergency”. i am sorry for always wasting so much webspace here with my dumb comments and questions…
here is one other little ditty with this project, though. i’m using the clients avi files, which FCP doesn’t really seem to like. when i open the project anew (after trashing prefs), it says all my avi files are not optimized and advises that is use the lovely and talented Media Manager to optimize them. i skimmed through the manual a bit on MM and didn’t see anything regarding “optimizing”, so i’ve left it alone and all seemed okay yesterday. any ideas on avi optimizing?
thanks again…
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You could run the .avi’s through Compressor’s “Advanced Format Conversion” (first option under “Settings”) and select the format that exactly matches your FCP timeline.
-Todd Beabout
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very cool! i never heard that one before. do you know if it re-compresses the file or degrades it any way? just wondering if i should convert them, then go back to the original version for final rendering and output? actually, after the initial warning screen to go to MM, it has worked just fine…but thanks for the tip!
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Actually it is essentially the same thing. If you drop the file into a sequence FCP will render that into the format that matches your sequence settings. So you are in effect doing this preemptively through Compressor, and then working native in your timeline.
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios
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