• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Slow Render And Crash On FCP 6.0

  Posted by Vick Sepetjian on December 20, 2008 at 11:49 pm

  EMERGENCY !!! PLEASE HELP. No , no big TV show….just trying to impress the new father in law. I’m doing a 3 minute music video on a brand new……..

  MacBook Pro 2.53 / 320 Gb / 4 Ram / Raid2 ( 1TB )connected to firewire 800 / using FCP 6.00 ( not .01,.02,.03 or .04 ) . All media is either Mini DV straight or enhanced with slight a motion effect.

  Was working great until later last night. Would make short clips ( 5 to 10 seconds ) and very quick renders….almost instantanious. NOW ….. freezes on render 90 % of the time ( have to Force Quit ).
  Already cleared out 4 preference files and trashed the trash. Computer is even freezing up sometimes now…..still has 194 GB. First Apple for me….so I don’t even know if it has its own hidden Caches I can clear out. Please don’t disappoint my father in law…….he won’t have a Christmas gift if I don’t finish by tomorrow. Thanx

  Bill Dewald replied 17 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  David Roth weiss

  December 21, 2008 at 12:05 am

  A few things…

  1) FCP 6.0 was buggy, so why the heck haven’t you updated? Do it…

  2) Have you trashed preferences? If not do so… If you don’t know about that download FCP rescue for free and use it.

  3) Go to Tools>>Render Manager in FCP try deleting the renders from your current project, then re-render.

  4) Report back here

  David Roth Weiss
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  Bill Dewald

  December 21, 2008 at 11:39 pm

  In addition to what David said, try repairing your permissions with Disk Utility.

  And be sure that you’re using your external RAID as your scratch disk. Writing renders to your system disk can cause big problems.

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