Can’t Work on Project – CRASH

[Fred Roberts]

Hello-

Tried booting in 64bit, although I thought that was the default for Lion?
Seemed to work at first, didn’t crash for a good amount of time, then crashed.

FCPX opens fine if there are no projects and events. Once I put the ONE project I am working on back in the Projects folder, crash happens. No corrupt files found. I’m using a LaCie Rugged 500GB external with nothing else on it except the Events and Projects folders. No system file on that drive, nothing.

It’s insane.

Now all I can think of is that suddenly my system can’t handle what it’s being asked to do.

iMac (2009), 2.93 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 120, VRAM 256 MB

I’m about ready to loose a job here.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Fred Roberts] “FCPX opens fine if there are no projects and events. Once I put the ONE project I am working on back in the Projects folder, crash happens. No corrupt files found. I’m using a LaCie Rugged 500GB external with nothing else on it except the Events and Projects folders. No system file on that drive, nothing.”

Ok. Is it still crashing when rendering?

[Fred Roberts]

Thanks for your reply. Still crashing, just as it starts to render.

I’m able to uncheck background render, then of course it’s ok. But no ability to edit.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Fred Roberts] “I’m able to uncheck background render, then of course it’s ok. But no ability to edit.”

Fred-

Please try and be specific as possible.

So, you can uncheck background render and no crash, but when you start to edit, it crashes?

Or are you saying without background editing, you can’t edit?

[Fred Roberts]

Yes when there is no background rendering, no crash. Any attempt to render, or export the entire project, causes a crash with the error message I posted above.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Ok.

One thing at a time, I know it’s tense at the moment.

Do you know which clips are retimed? Have you tried taking the retime off?

What format is your media?

[Fred Roberts]

Good advice. I am loosing my mind a bit.

If I load the project to try and remove any effects or titles that might be causing the problem, it crashes. Turning background render off seems to not prevent the project from rendering once I load it into the timeline. This short period, from when I load it to when I try to make changes, is enough time for it to crash.

All the footage is there of course. I just can’t access it to try and troubleshoot.

Thanks.
Steven

[Fred Roberts]

Good advice. I am loosing my mind a bit.

If I load the project to try and remove any effects or titles that might be causing the problem, it crashes. Turning background render off seems to not prevent the project from rendering once I load it into the timeline. This short period, from when I load it to when I try to make changes, is enough time for it to crash.

All the footage is there of course. I just can’t access it to try and troubleshoot.

UPDATE: Now it appear even while opening FCP with NO projects in the Projects folder, it crashes. I opened the program with no Projects, but with Events for that project. I’ll try with no events.

Thanks.
Steven

[Jeremy Garchow]

Ok. No Events?

[Fred Roberts]

With no events, and just the project, it crashes. Same error message in crash report.