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Abnormally slow FCP problem
My Final Cut Pro this morning is running extremely erratically. When I load it up it freezes on the Splash screen as if it has crashed however after about 5 minutes it will eventually load up Final Cut Pro. Then anytime I click on anything it gives me the spinning wheel for five minutes but it never actually crashes as long as I wait long enough. I’ve tried trashing preferences, I’ve tried reinstalling FCP. Nothing works. I haven’t done any recent updates or anything else that I feel would trigger such a reaction. Any ideas?
Pete
These are the settings in my system. FCP 5.1.4, Quicktime 7.2.1, Mac OS 10.5.6
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5 Replies
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just spitballing here –
Is your system drive full? Otherwise healthy? Have you repaired permissions lately?
Also – QT 7.2.1 seems kinda old to work with Lep. Just an observation – there’s no science behind it.
What do you use for media storage?
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FC 5.1.4 works great with QT 7.2. Don’t update QT.
What I don’t know is how it works QT 7.2 with Mac OSX 10.5.6
I guess that QT 7.5 will work better , but if you update QT you may start to have troubles with FC.
I haven’t update to 10.5.6 because it seems that is giving lot of problems.
Running DiskWarrior or TechTools my hep you to make your system work.
Cheers,
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FWIW, I’ve run 5.1.4 with 7.5 with no trouble.
But, I don’t think its a QT issue. Check the health of that system drive.
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figured out the problem. I was using a kynopis box for my FireWire connection. And was swapping the FireWire between the box and my camera constantly without powering down the computer first. I reset the preferences for the kynopis box and now everything works perfectly. Word of advice to anyone out there with a similar set-up. Always turn off your computer before switching your FireWire chord.
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had the exact same issue, but was solved by trashing the cache folders.
1. Trash Prefs, using this tool
2. Locate the folder “Final Cut Pro Documents”, should be on your scratch disc.
3. Inside it, locate the thumbnail and waveform cache folders, and trash them.
4. Empty the trash.
You should be good to go. if things still arent working out for you, use this tool to remove FCS and do a clean install.my solution and tools used can be found here, at the bottom of the post;
https://www.uncarvedblog.com/files/17e6d3fd887301579e655aa7cb9d7b3e-37.phpThe cup is half full and my shirt is half wet
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