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FCP & Type – Unexpectedly Quits
New to the COW more or les just to post this FCP question.
I’m running FCP 6.0.5 on Mac OS 10.5.6When I add type to a sequence, and try to enter the Controls tab, to edit the text/type, FCP quits unexpectedly every time.
Anyone else had this issue? I suspect it is related to my font cache somehow, but I’m not quite sure how. Are certain typefaces or families no good for FCP?
Appreciate the help.
erikino
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[kerik ino] “Anyone else had this issue? I suspect it is related to my font cache somehow, but I’m not quite sure how. Are certain typefaces or families no good for FCP? “
Yes, I had this as part of an overall issue with my Mac Pro last year. Basically my Font Book tool stopped working and all 2,000 fonts that I have on my machine were active at all times. Even temporarily removing 1500 of them did not stop FCP from crashing so there might have been one or two fonts that were causing the issue.
This all started after I used Time Machine to Restore my machine one time. Thus I would never recommend anyone actually use Time Machine’s Restore function on an FCP system.
I ended up completely erasing my MacHD and starting over the past Christmas break and since then, I’ve had no issues. So my guess you either have too many fonts active, or you have one or more “bad” fonts that are causing FCP to crash.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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Forgot to mention, have you tried Boris Title 3D? This worked perfectly fine when I was having the issues with the Text tool so I switched over to that. See if that works for the time being.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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