• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  can’t open file cut pro (at all??)

  Posted by Tom Adams on April 12, 2007 at 7:54 pm

  Hello,

  I manage a community tv studio and am using an 17″ imac with multiple users accounts and until today I have been able to work on fcp projects with no problem at all (for the past three years).

  But for some reason when i click on any one of my many project files or when I click on fcp app icon… it tries to open and then just closes… never makes it to showing the viewer/browser, etc windows…

  so, I logged onto a different user’s account to see if I could open up fcp there and ..presto, no problem whatsoever.

  I ran disk utility thinking permissions were off…but still no good. any hints?

  thanks

  Regards,

  Tom Adams – Director/Owner
  Reelife Documentary Productions

  “cool digital video stuff…not boring or dumb”
  in**@****************ns.com http://www.reelifeproductions.com
  Williamsburg, MA, USA

  1.4Ghz DP mirrordoor G4
  OS10.4.8, 1GB memory
  FCP 5.0.4, 850GB Graid external Firewire Drives
  Panasonic DVX100a & EZ1

  Tom Adams replied 19 years ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

• 

  Scott Shucher

  April 12, 2007 at 8:21 pm

  Trash the FCP preferences for your user. I’ll bet this fixes the problem.
• 

  Steven Lambion

  April 12, 2007 at 11:06 pm

  This is a big problem with OS X apps, when something like a preference file is corrupted or sometimes when you move an app from one computer to another, the Application when launched will bounce once and then close.

  Video Specialist
  Apple Developer
  Owner of GranitWorks
• 

  Tom Adams

  April 13, 2007 at 12:47 am

  oh yeah…I remember doing that with my old premiere projects back in 1998 (or something like that)…but I haven’t had to do that with FCP ever before. thanks for the reminder

  Regards,

  Tom Adams – Director/Owner
  Reelife Documentary Productions

  “cool digital video stuff…not boring or dumb”
  info@reelifeproductions.com http://www.reelifeproductions.com
  Williamsburg, MA, USA

  1.4Ghz DP mirrordoor G4
  OS10.4.8, 1GB memory
  FCP 5.0.4, 850GB Graid external Firewire Drives
  Panasonic DVX100a & EZ1
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  Tom Adams

  April 13, 2007 at 3:13 pm

  hey thanks. deleting the pref worked. don’t know why they got corrupted but whatever… thanks again.

  Regards,

  Tom Adams – Director/Owner
  Reelife Documentary Productions

  “cool digital video stuff…not boring or dumb”
  info@reelifeproductions.com http://www.reelifeproductions.com
  Williamsburg, MA, USA

  1.4Ghz DP mirrordoor G4
  OS10.4.8, 1GB memory
  FCP 5.0.4, 850GB Graid external Firewire Drives
  Panasonic DVX100a & EZ1

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