FCP 6.0.3 hangs on render under new leopard update

[David Roth weiss]

Use render manager to delete all renders for that timeline and then rerender. Can’t promise that will fix you up, but it just might.

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[Jim Kinsey]

Thanks I will try that. Man 30 hard shut downs today. When I force quit FCP it still stays open in the doc and I can not restart or shutdown normally so my only option is to hold down the power button until everything powers down… Really fried right now… For a second I was having PC flashbacks.

Jim Kinsey

[Steve Eisen]

That many hard shutdowns is a lot for your system hard drive.

You also might want to try trashing your preferences.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Glenn Grant]

I had this same kind of thing happen, but I am still on 10.5.2. I was able to narrow it down to one clip that was giving me trouble. It was just b-roll so I used a different shot. I wish I had tried the render manager. The shot played fine on it’s own it was just trouble with a lower third that needed to be rendered.

So this may not be a problem with 10.5.3

[Alexander Kallas]

Get the latest licence of Disk Warrior, you’ll need it !

Cheers
Alexander

[Rafael Amador]

I second Alexander: DiskWarrior.
I’ve up-dated lLopard last week and the only problem I found is that I can not bring to FC the clips compressed with Sheer. I’f do it, “General Error”. However they play fine in QT.
The rest the same in FC. No better, no worst. Still lazy for closing.
I didn’t try to reproduce the bugs of FC, Color or Compressor. After holidays.
Rafael

Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.

[Jim Kinsey]

So I trashed the preferences files then deleted the render files and re-rendered. It seemed to work for now. So the real test will come today while I start round 2 with the remainder of shows to print to tape. Thanks for all your input. I know better than to update my machine in the middle of 13 original episodes for TV. I will call CAl digit today and find out if their HDpro needs an update with leopards latest installment.

Jim Kinsey

[Jim Kinsey]

Well I spoke with the folks at cal digit as I have an HD pro raid 4TB model and they are working feverishly to fix a kernal that their raid hangs on in the new leopard update. So when I go to render the caldigit raid hangs half way through or sometimes at 95 or 98% and FCP feezes and will not force quit. after a hard shutdown….. The only fix I have found to help out is when you use the shortcut option+r just render small bits at a time by hitting escape after maybe 10% and then do that again and again until it has just a small amount left then you can let it finish rendering. This seems to be working as a work around.

With that being said CAl digit informs me they will have a patch on their site this week to fix the problem.

Jim Kinsey

[Cade Muhlig]

I have the same problem. Ive done probably around 10 hard shutdowns today. FCP is actually frozen as I type this. Im running on a Cal Digit too

[Jim Kinsey]

Cal- Digit has the fix. Go to their website and tech support for updates and you can fix it by following the instructions.

JK