FCP 5.0.4 getting stuck on batch digitize then it crashes

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The first thing to always try is to Quit FCP, Restart the Mac, Open your FCP project and try again.

Next:
THE FOLLOWING COMES FROM THE KEN STONE WEBSITE:
“Over 5,000 years ago Confucius wrote: ‘If you are toiling away, you have changed nothing and FCP heads South on you, [starts behaving in strange ways] then it is time to trash your FCP Preferences.’ ”

Click the following link for instructions.

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html

A great way to do this is to use “FCP Rescue” a free Apple Script that will Trash the Preferences for you (and restore nearly all of your user settings afterward).
There are versions for FCP (Pro) & FCE (Express) and a new one for FCP 5.

Download these free Apple Scripts at

https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/

This is one FCP tip that has helped in solving hundreds of “odd” problems.

[Carlos Prio]

Thanks Matte! I have had a day from hell!!!! I did do the Prefs dump but I still have the problem. It seems that it is responding to a particular set of clips by just crapping out.. It will digitize some clips and compltely QUIT on others.

I’ve tried relogging the clips, logging and then digitizing a clip, doing a “press play & manual digitize” … but nothing works… FCP continues to quit… I am at wits end!!!

Any additional ideas???

Carlos Prio
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OSX 10.4.3
FCP HD 5.0.4
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[Michaelle Stikich]

One thing I have done in the past if I have not already started cutting the clips is to export a batch list of the problem clips and reimport it. Then capture. It seems that exporting a batch list cleans some of the bad data from the clips somehow. If you have a sequence that these bad clips link to, you could try exporting and EDL and recapturing that way.

good luck!
gir