Corrupt Events

[T. Payton]

Jim,

Major bummer. Yes i have seen this with a fellow in Europe with 10.0.1. Are the blank clips ones that you are using or did they just appear?

Don’t give up on FCP X yet. Unfortunately corruption is a part of life (I’ve lost all sorts of Final Cut, After Effects, and InDesign files over the years). I personally haven’t had any corrupt events or projects in FCP X, so know that there is hope here.

So here is a page that might be helpful:

https://fcpx.tv/troubleshooting.html

Based on what is happening with your blank clips I would try this:

1- Export your event as an FCPXML and then reimport. I have seen doing that fix a lot of problems. If that doesn’t remove the blank entries at first, you might even want to look at the XML file to see if you see any blank entries. (However, if you are using compound clips to edit some of the info might be lost (like key framing) so in then that might be a problem and you’ll want instead to do #2.

2 – Copy to a new event by option-dragging your clips to a new event. Everything will be retained in your new event except folders (at least in my tests). Be sure to test with a few clips first before you drag the whole thing.

After you do #1 or #2, disable your old corrupted event and upon the next launch FCP X should find all the footage. You might need to change the event references for the projects.

3 -Now if you are still stuck after trying #1 or #2, I would give Apple a call. It will take some time and they can help.

4 – if you are still stuck after 1, 2, and 3, I’ll be glad to help as best I can. We could screen share or whatever.

Hang in there.

——
T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Jim Waterwash]

It worked! Thanks for your help.

Step #1 (exporting and reimporting the event’s xml seems to have done it.

I can now just select all my keywords and add them to a new project all at once. Before, when I would select a single keyword segment, after adding one to a project, it would take a minute or two of spinning beach balls before I could even use FCPX. Selecting more then about 3 and adding them would hang FCPX.

Thanks again.
Jim

[T. Payton]

Jim,

Glad to hear it!

– T.

——
T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Jim Waterwash]

So while those empty entries within my events was a suspect cause for some of my problems, I believe there is most probably a bug involving Event Keywords that have overlapping regions.

I have a region named “interview” within my event, whose region contains multiple keywords defining sub regions. I believe this is what is confusing FCPX.

While it is possible for me to now select all the keywords in the event browser’s list view and add them to a project, the resulting keywords that make it into the project are a bit scrambled around these overlapping keywords. This may be the cause for the project still taking over a minute to load (and I have the events and projects on an SSD now).

I just wanted to provide more details so the bug can be verified, avoided, or maybe even fixed..

[T. Payton]

Jim,

I haven’t seen any problems with overlapping regions on my end. I would duplicate that clip, clear all the keywords from it and then try to reapply the keywords and see if it still happens.

Also, while I love to hear about the problems, report them directly to the FCP team where they will be logged and addressed.

https://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html

The best way to do that is find a way to reproduce it and then report it with details like this:

1. Summary of issues
2. Steps to reproduce the issue
3. Expected Results/Actual Results
4. Any additional details.

——
T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Ted Irving]

I’ve been using FCPX since 10.0 and its been smooth sailing til now. I’m getting hammered. Something is corrupted and I’ve narrowed it down to two projects I have in one event. I’m using event manager and preferences manager for FCPX 10.04 and my Final cut will only launch and immediately crash after all windows appear. Been happening since yesterday. I’ve copied event & project files, ken stone fcpx tips, etc. nothing. And i’m on a deadline. Some of the error code is pasted below. There has to be some type of way to get these project (timelines) back and preventing them from causing FCPX to crash/quit.
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Process: Final Cut Pro [8109]
Path: /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Pro
Identifier: com.apple.FinalCut
Version: 10.0.4 (197051)
Build Info: ProEditor-197050125~3
App Item ID: 424389933
App External ID: 7274436
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [214]

Date/Time: 2012-06-20 21:18:20.452 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.7.4 (11E53)
Report Version: 9

Interval Since Last Report: 79474 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 39
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 3288 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 38
Anonymous UUID: 78B6A4FA-571D-4F93-9CCB-4C876A36F1C0

Crashed Thread: 20 BGTask: MEBackgroundLoadManager Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-priority

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000010

VM Regions Near 0x10:
–>
__TEXT 0000000100000000-00000001000cb000 [ 812K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Pro

Application Specific Information:
objc[8109]: garbage collection is OFF

Thread 0:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
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3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8db0fc74 __CFRunLoopRun + 1204
4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8db0f486 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 230
5 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8724e49c -[NSMoveHelper _doAnimation] + 1399
6 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8710a214 -[
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0x7fff85448000 – 0x7fff854b3ff7 com.apple.framework.IOKit (2.0 – ???) <6C604894-7F61-3130-8499-20791D14577F> /System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit
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0x7fff85d25000 – 0x7fff85d2ffff libcsfde.dylib (??? – ???) <4E8CF39C-
VM Region Summary:
ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=356.9M resident=178.0M(50%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=178.9M(50%)
Writable regions: Total=1.4G written=442.9M(31%) resident=593.6M(42%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=819.5M(58%)

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CG backing stores 17.3M
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CG shared images 3432K
CoreAnimation 35.7M
CoreGraphics 16K
CoreImage 72K
CoreServices 1192K
IOKit 116.0M
IOKit (reserved) 519.1M reserved VM address space (unallocated)
MALLOC 579.6M
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Memory tag=241 8K
Memory tag=242 12K
Memory tag=249 264K
Memory tag=251 120K
OpenCL 28K
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SQLite page cache 8832K
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Stack 42.1M
VM_ALLOCATE 20.5M
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=========== =======
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Model: MacPro5,1, BootROM MP51.007F.B03, 4 processors, Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 2.8 GHz, 20 GB, SMC 1.39f11
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FireWire Device: built-in_hub, 800mbit_speed

Ted Irving
Freelance Content Creation
CBS MaxPreps/BBN3
http://www.tedtv.tv
tedirving@yahoo.com

[T. Payton]

Ted,

If you are under deadline, I would definitely give Apple a call. They probably have ways of helping.

My thought is that you might have a corrupted clip in that event. To test it quit FCP, move all projects and events to disabled and then goto your problem event and put an X in front of the “Original Media”, “Transcoded Media” and “Render Files”. Don’t worry this is harmless, it is just hiding those from FCP X.

Now see if the event will load. If it does, one of those folders has a corrupt file in it. To troubleshoot go one by one and remove the X (of course only doing that while FCP X is quit).

If that doesn’t work, post back.

——
T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque