• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Controls tab for Text crashes FCP

  Posted by Dan Shott on October 13, 2008 at 9:03 pm

  Hey everyone,

  If I create a new text element in Final Cut Pro and then click on the Controls tab, Final Cut Pro crashes. In searching the only thing I could find was to open up Font Book and resolve any duplicates. I tried this but FCP still crashes. Anyone else seen this/have any idea on what might be doing it?

  Mac Pro, OS X 10.5.3, FCP 6.0.3, QT 7.4.5.

  Thanks,
  Dan

  Dan Shott replied 17 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 8 Replies
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  Steve Eisen

  October 13, 2008 at 9:08 pm

  Use Live Type for your text.
  To solve your crash problem, repair your permissions.

  Steve Eisen
  Eisen Video Productions
  Board of Directors
  Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group
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  Dan Shott

  October 13, 2008 at 9:23 pm

  Hi Steve,

  Thanks for the quick respone. I tried repairing permissions but it doesn’t seem to have fixed the crash problem. We use livetype for some of our facier text, but for quick slates, ect the built in text feature works just fine.

  -Dan
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  Bouncing Account needs new email address

  October 13, 2008 at 11:19 pm

  Use the Boris 3D Title instead.

  It should be one of your built-in choices.
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  Dan Shott

  October 13, 2008 at 11:26 pm

  That’s what I have been using for my own titles, but unfortunately I’m an AE for about 35 editors who use a combo of the two, so I need to figure out why machine is crashing to work on their projects.
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  Kerik Ino

  March 8, 2009 at 1:18 am

  Was there ever a solution? Was it permissions or no?

  I am suffering from the same issue and feel the same way about wanting quick and easy type(not livetype).
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  Dan Shott

  March 16, 2009 at 6:34 pm

  Unfortunately repairing permissions did not fix the problem and I’m still looking for a solution.
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  Kerik Ino

  March 16, 2009 at 10:54 pm

  hi… in font book i deactivated all fonts with the exception of the apple system fonts. you can find a list of the system fonts on the web somewhere i am sure.

  then, using FontAgent Pro application i imported all of my fonts. Created two libraries. a system fonts library and then the rest of my fonts. Autoactivation was turned on, so if i open an application requiring a font that i do not have activated, it will activate that font. But for the sake of eliminating variables, all fonts were deactivated except system fonts.

  from there i used Smasher application and “smashed” all font caches.

  then i restarted and the issue was resolved. also, i did not have any other users on my system. might help to delete other users before doing this or maybe do the same process for the other user accounts first, then do the master admin and restart and log in to the master.

  good luck
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  Dan Shott

  March 18, 2009 at 7:37 pm

  That did it! Thank you so much for your help!

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