• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Color Flashes

  Posted by Kimberly Ruane on November 13, 2008 at 7:34 pm

  Hi all!

  Okay, we’re having trouble with our project.
  We’re getting color flashes on some of our clips when we’re watching sequences (yesterday pink, today green).
  When we restart FCP, they go away.
  Is this a sign of corruption?

  I rebuilt the project last week, and we’ve trashed the preferences.
  The FCP project is about 120 Mbs.

  Can anyone think of what’s causing this, and what we can do to fix it?

  And – maybe I should have asked this first – when rebuilding a project by cutting and pasting, do you have to go in to each individual sequence, cut everything and then paste it to a new sequence, or just cut the sequence from the old project and paste in in the new project?

  Thanks so much for any help!
  Kim

  Tom Meegan replied 17 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Tom Meegan

  November 15, 2008 at 12:38 pm

  I’ve found I start to get strange behavior when the projects become large. 120 MB qualifies as large.

  If you can break this into smaller projects things will probably stabilize.

  You can use either method to copy sequence from one project to another, but the later (cut the sequence, paste into the project) is easier, and avoids any confusion with sequence settings not matching.

  If you haven’t already, I would suggest making a back up of your project every evening after you work on the project. Keep these back-ups for the duration of the project. I usually add the date of the backup (111508 for example) as a suffix to the name of the project.

  This might seem a bit extreme, but imagine your pain if your project goes corrupt and you can’t open it.

  Best,

  Tom Meegan
  Woven Pixels, LLC

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