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FCP Takes 5 minutes to fire up after crash – Urgent!
Recently, one of my editors had FCP lock up while simply trying to access the File menu. After a Force Quit and reboot, FCP will now go through the usual loading process, but hangs at the end with the loading screen still up, then a beachball. If we wait several minutes it will eventually load FCP but isn’t functional and a Force Quit is required.
What makes this even more strange is that the same thing happened on a different machine several months ago, and in the end nothing fixed it, including a full reinstall of FCP, except a full and total reinstall of OSX from scratch. This tells me that there is some file somewhere that is the problem, which not only gets corrupted, but isn’t removed or replaced when reinstalling FCP. Could be wrong, but that’s my hunch.
Now for specs. The only third party ANYTHING we use is Perian and Flip4mac. No other plugins etc. Footage is pulled from a shared RAID (connected to Leopard Xserve) via aggregated dual-gigabit ethernet. It is running Leopard 10.5.5 with all latest updates installed, and is running FCP Studio 2 with all latest updates. It has a secondary internal drive for Cache files etc., is a quad-core Mac Pro with 8GB RAM, properly paired.
Also, we already tried the usual – deleting preferences, Repair Permissions on the drive etc. and nothing seems to fix the problem. When deleting prefs we may have missed something but I deleted the com.apple.fcp.plist (whatever it’s called) as well as everything in the “final cut preferences” folder, all within the userprofile/library/preferences folder. Did I miss something?
ANY help would be greatly appreciated, I need this machine up and running but “the Google” isn’t helping.
Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
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4 Replies
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Try either DiskWarrior or Drive Genius or both. We had similar problems on a machine here and Drive Genius fixed it. We used the defrag on the boot drive while launching from the disc. This can take a while.
Have a wonderful day.
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Also, try uninstalling Perian. That has caused some issues in the past. The beautiful thing abotu Perian is the uninstall and reinstall process is so easy from the sys prefs.
Jeremy
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Brendan,
Do you by any chance have a Kona card installed? I ask because I recently had very crazy crashing behavior that took me quite some time to track down. It ended up being corrupted Kona drivers, and the problems went away as soon as I uninstalled and reinstalled them.
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
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While most of our machines have BlackMagic Decklink cards, the two machines this happened on just so happen to have no third party cards of any kind installed. In fact, they are both very much stock configurations apart from OWC RAM (8GB) and the Perian/Flip4Mac combo.
Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
http://www.splitvisiondigital.com
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