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Constant Final Cut Crashes
I recently purchased a new Mac Pro. I have been having very frequent crashes on the machine. At first I assumed that it was the result of having to work on a large HDV project via firewire. However, I am now working on a DV based project and again am having crashes.
Here are the symptoms. If I scroll around the sequence rapidly the machine freezes and crashes. Numerous sequences open at once causes crashes. Now I am aware that these are red flags but I have my old G5 set up and am able to work on the project fine with no crashes at all. Also, it takes a very long time for the project to open – much longer than it does on the G5.
I tried reinstalling Final Cut Studio and yet I am getting the same performance problems. And to reiterate, I’m not having any of these problems on my old G5 with a dual processor. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here’s the specs on my new system:
Mac Pro
2 x 3.2 GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon
8 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTPlenty of space on the start-up disk. I’ve zapped the P-RAM. Kind of at my wit’s end.
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Did you ADD any RAM to the machine?
Have you run the program called Rember to check your RAM sticks?
https://www.kelleycomputing.net:16080/rember/
You can download the app and give it a go.
I found I had some bad sticks that were causing crashing and other odd problems.
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Thanks for the tip Matte. I ran the program but there were no problems with the sticks.
Thanks again for the suggestion.
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Just a note-
I’ve run Disk Warrior and the Hardware Diagnostics. No change. It seems to take forever to open a project whether from a firewire drive or the internal drive and the crashes are just as frequent. I’m running OS X 10.5.5.
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Tom,
I’m hardly ever one to advise a complete reinstall from scratch, however my own computer recently began behaving badly and it would not respond to the normal cures. So, I reinstalled the OS and FCS2 from scratch and it cured everything. I suspect that problems have arisen after being compounded by numerous recent screwy updates from Apple. But, who really knows???
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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[Tom Vickers] “I recently purchased a new Mac Pro. I have been having very frequent crashes on the machine. At first I assumed that it was the result of having to work on a large HDV project via firewire. However, I am now working on a DV based project and again am having crashes.”
i would look at factors like huge still images (anything over 4000 pixels will crash fcp every time in my experience) and also I am assuming you have the latest updates? I had a lot of crashing with the release version and motion templates, but now fcp is very solid except for the large stills issue.
do you only have these dv files? -
My system is doing the exact same. I also upgraded from a G5. The G 5 ran smoothly. Since using a mac pro I have run into the crashing problems. Ram seems ok. I did a fresh fcp install & still no luck.
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This has been happening to me more and more frequently over the past week. Working mostly with HDV files that have been converted to Pro Res (non HQ) on a Pro Res timeline. Just a little scrolling seems to set it off, but only every hour or so (gee…that’s all!) : ) I’ve trashed prefs, dumped thumbnail, waveform and render folders to no avail.
FCS 3 supposed to be showing up in the mail soon, and I have Snow Leopard ready to install when it gets here. Hopefully all the new software and OS will clear it up???
Thanks again!
J. Tad Newberry
Big Ya Productions
Mac Pro 2.66 GHz Quad-Core
3 GB RAM
http://www.bigya.tv
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