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Final Cut Pro 5
I tried to open final cut pro 5 on my powermac G5 (non-intel) and I kept getting an error message saying “quit unexpectadly – won’t affect your Mac OS, etc…” then it asked if I wanted to retry but that didn’t work. I even reinstalled the software and that didn’t work. It used to work fine but I hadn’t used it in a couple years. what is the easiest way to fix this? thanks
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A similar thing happened to me recently on the same setup as you. Have you tried trashing your preferences? That’s what saved me. Could perhaps also try back-dating your version of Quicktime perhaps?
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Oh, and another thing to add is have you tried opening any other FCS software? Soundtrack, Compressor etc – are they working ok?
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I was able to open sountrack pro just fine.
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where would I go to trash my preferences? How and what date would I back date quicktime to? Thanks for your help
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Please give full details of your computer, OS and QuickTime. You cannot backslush to some versions of QT with some versions of the OS. They will require specific QT versions or later.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
To trash preferences go to User/Library/Preferences/Final Cut Pro User Data and then trash the file called Final Cut Pro 6.0 Prefs. (Have FCP closed when you do this).
Then re-launch FCP. Hopefully that’ll work. It’s a pretty standard thing to do if ever FCP is playing up, which is quite often. The only drawback is you lose all of your saved preferences. You can combat this by using a programme called Preference Manager, which you can tell to backup your working set of preferences so that when the time comes to trash them, you can tell Preference Manager to restore the ones you had backed up.
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I’ll give that a shot later…thanks. Is preferance manager a software I buy? I don’t mind losing my preferences as long as the documents I have on the desk top and songs in itunes doesn’t get wiped out.
And yes…the other programs do work, at least Sound Track Pro did when I opened it. I’ll let you know how it goes and thanks for your help
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Preference Manager is completely free. The cool thing about it is it can be used to back up and restore preferences for all of the Final Cut Studio software, not just FCP. I’ve also just seen that it’ll do the job of trashing preferences for you as well, which saves having to find them in Finder as I mentioned in the last post. Trashing FCP preferences only effects FCP, so all your music, project files etc are fine.
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It’s a powermac g5. with final cut 5. it worked great in the past but I hadn’t used it for 2 years. then I opened it yesterday and I got the message with an exlamation saying – Final cut quit quit unexpectadly, this doesn’t affect you mac os, etc..”
I go to retry and it still doesn’t work.
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how do I get to user/library/FCP….?
I’m lost here
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