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Boris Text 3D crashing FCP
I struck out with this issue on Apple discussions so thought I’d check here…
This started as a missing Text editor. When I’d open the controls tab and try to open the Boris text editor, the pop-up window was nowhere to be found. I trashed my prefs but that didn’t solve it. Now, whenever I try to open the text editor, all of FCP crashes. When I try to restart FCP, the start-up crashes and it never opens. Trashing the prefs DOES solve that start-up issue and I’m able to get into FCP. But still can’t access the Boris text editor window. It’s almost like it’s hidden on another phantom monitor, but I don’t see it when I mirror my displays. Any ideas?
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4 Replies
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Did you trash the Title 3D and Title Crawl prefs? It’s easiest to do this with Preferences Manager. The most likely cause of this is a corrupted font. You might want to look through your fonts folder and see if any of the fonts has a generic blank icon. That’s usually and indication that it’s damaged.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
To expand on Tom’s message, the first thing I would recommend you try would be to trash the Title 3D preferences – the file is called ‘com.borisfx.Title 3D’, and is located here –
Macintosh HD :: Users :::: Library :: Preferences Delete this file with FCP closed, and as a good test, try creating a new Title 3D effect in a new Project or Sequence. If this does not work, go into the Font Book application, disable all but a small handful of primary fonts, and try again.
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In my experience, Title 3D has trouble with lots of fonts open at once on your system. Shut them down and see what happens.
Have a wonderful day.
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You nailed it Tom…bad font. Thanks for the idea.
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