• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Final Cut Crashing and Not Fully Force Quitting

  Posted by Alexander Atkins on April 19, 2009 at 8:49 pm

  I am running Final Cut Studio on and 3.06 GHz 4GB RAM 24″ iMac.

  I am working on a short film shot in 1080 24PA, editing in a 1080i60 sequence.
  I am running my project off of two G-Tech external hard drives, one of which is connected via Firewire 800 to the machine, and the other daisy-chained to the first, also via 800.

  I am having incessant problems with the application Not Responding. When I force Quit, application windows close, but the program does not fully quit until I manually shut off both externals.
  This tends to happen when I quickly switch between sequences, but also has begun happening when I’m just playing back a RAW clip. It seems to be getting worse.

  I am trying to finish this project in the next two weeks, and, of course, this is driving me insane.

  Any help would be much appreciated.

  Jeff Demello replied 16 years, 10 months ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
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  William Carr

  April 20, 2009 at 6:27 am

  Daisy-chaining two G-Raids on a single firewire bus and editing 1080 footage on an iMac may be overreaching the performance of your set-up.

  If it’s a short film maybe all its media will fit on one external, but make sure there’s at least 25percent room to spare. So trash prefs and then try connecting and using a single G-Raid.
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  Rafael Amador

  April 20, 2009 at 8:29 am

  I would start by running DiskWarrior in all my HDs.
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  Arnie Schlissel

  April 21, 2009 at 1:52 am

  [Rafael Amador] “I would start by running DiskWarrior in all my HDs.”

  Me too. If one HD is getting wonky, that could easily be causing this type of problem. Also, check your cabling. Swap the cables out with other cables that you know work properly. It’s also possible that one drive has a wonky FW port, so try all possible cable/port combinations to see if the problem persists.

  Arnie
  Post production is not an afterthought!
  https://www.arniepix.com/
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  Jeff Demello

  July 3, 2009 at 7:08 pm

  I’m having the exact same issue on different configurations:

  1) Quad G5: Latest FCP, Latest OS
  2) MacBook Pro: Latest FCP, Latest OS
  3) PowerBook G4: Latest FCP, Latest OS

  I will get a “Spinning Beach Ball of Death”. I try to Force Quit Final Cut. The Final Cut windows will disappear, but in the Force Quit Window it still shows “Final Cut (not responding)”.

  I’ve tried trashing both the Final Cut and Finder preferences, but to no avail.

  Any other ideas?

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