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Final Cut Pro Academic unexpectedly quits
I am running Final Cut Pro Academic on a Mac G5. I have 7 other systems with the same set-up, and they all work fine. Although, when I try to open Final Cut on this computer, it quits before I can do anything. I never get past the initial load up template. I opened it via Terminal, and after the initial open sequence it reads “Pro; quit logout process complete”
Any help?
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5 Replies
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First, trash your preferences and then see if the application loads. Not a project, the application itself. If not, where exactly in the load process does it fail?
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” -
Ok, trashing the preferences didn’t help. Either that or I didn’t do it correctly.
This is what it reads in Terminal:
Last login – Friday Feb. 20th, 2009 9:15 – onttyp1
/applications/final\cut\pro.app/contents/macOS/final\cut\pro; exit
Welcome to Darwin!
comp-4:~timdench$ /applications/final\cut\pro.app/contents/macOS/final\cut\pro; exit
logout
[process completed]So it never gives it a chance to do anything.
It closes before any windows or aspects of the program show up.
The only thing to show up is the toolbar and the small template that appears in the middle of the screen that displays all the basic Final Cut information.
Immediately after, it quits. -
If you’re not sure how to trash your preferences, please describe exactly what you did, or get a preferences utility like Preferences Manager.
The tool bar appears? So you’re pretty late in the loading process. You should see the splash screen. Do you get that where it says Final Cut Pro Academic version? Watch that screen closely. Words appear on it telling what it’s doing. Where exactly does it fail? If it fails at some other point please describe exactly where it fails. I don’t care what it says in Terminal. Read your application splash screen.
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” -
Trashing the preferences solves probably about 90% of the buggy FCP problems I see day in and day out (I’ve worked in 2 academic computer labs with 60+ stations).
Depending on your version, Preferences Manager should work- https://www.digitalrebellion.com/pref_man.htm or good old FCP Rescue- https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/
And don’t try opening your current project, just open the application (after trashing the prefs). It’s possible, although I think unlikely, that your project could be corrupt.
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Hi,
I know that this is an older post, but we have just started seeing FCP 7 quit when we hit the “log” button during L&C.
Prior to this, it was working fine. We don’t know what has changed.
Do you have any thoughts on what we should do/try to figure this out?
If someone had made changes to system preferences, could that cause it? I know that someone had used the computer for some sound editing and had made a few changes – but he doesn’t think he touched anything other than the sound preferences….
Any thoughts? We shot footage in HDV1080i60 as usual…Not sure what has changed….
Thanks much
Dianne
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