• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP project file won’t open

  Posted by Deren Abram on February 28, 2009 at 9:15 pm

  I have an FCP project file, that just won’t open completely (nor will backup project files and autosaves).

  It starts to open and pauses at 42%… goes non-responsive for a few minutes and then continues as if things are okay. Once everything appears to open, I get the spinning wheel-of-death that just stays for hours until I give up. I can see the open project file and timeline, bins, etc. but end up force-quitting after an hour or so of FCP “not responding”.

  FWIW– Yesterday, I was able to open it once by opening a very small project and then the larger. But once I started working on it, after just a click or two, the death wheel returned and was non-responsive. I’ve tried to reopen this same way (and other ways too… usually by repeating c’mon, c’mon, c’mon) but now only really small projects open.

  Any suggestions for a workaround to get it open?

  Mac OSX 10.5.6
  Dual 1.8 GHz PowerPC G5
  4 GB DDR SDRAM
  Mac HD

  FCP Version 6.0.3

  Deren Abram replied 17 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

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  Zane Barker

  March 1, 2009 at 2:04 am

  Try deleting the preference files.

  There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
  Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!
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  Deren Abram

  March 1, 2009 at 7:58 pm

  Thanks Zane… No luck. Any other ideas?

  Mac OSX 10.5.6
  Dual 1.8 GHz PowerPC G5
  4 GB DDR SDRAM
  Mac HD

  FCP Version 6.0.3

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