fcp 7 crashing on launch! Tried everything!

[Jon Grimson]

Just wanted to report back that I believe there is definitely a bug in how fcp handles 2nd monitor display when it is disconnect and reconnected in a laptop setup. Those of you with 2nd monitor display running FCP workspace (not as broadcast reference via 3rd party hardware), would likely never notice. But people running FCP from laptops who then need to disconnect and go mobile will likely NOT be able to restart FCP at all, until they return to office, reconnect to 2nd display and manually move desk spaces around. I just tested this and now I can edit via laptop only, provided that I saved last in FCP when I had manual re-arranged desktop to single monitor, and saved.

Why is this critical? Try going to a client meeting and having that meeting end instantly when FCP won’t launch. Makes me nervous to try it again but I think manually rearranging to laptop screen and saving FCP, then making monitor disconnect will solve it.

Thanks everybody!

[Brian Berberich]

I stumbled upon this thread when I had the same problem. The problem for me was that another user changed the “Waveform Cache,” “Thumbnail Cache,” and “Autosave Vault.” This caused FCP to crash on launch, without an error. Trashing the preferences did not fix this problem, which still seems wrong to me. I probably just deleted the preferences wrong, but if this happens to anyone else try the above.

Oh yeah, I was able to change the above settings by making the previous Scratch Disk offline. System Settings opened up before the usually crash.

Brian

[Justin Thompson]

Brian said… Oh yeah, I was able to change the above settings by making the previous Scratch Disk offline. System Settings opened up before the usually crash.

I did this and it worked. Thanks Brian!

[Grant Gladish]

FYI…
I have an iMac (2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor with 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Memory). I’m running Version 10.5.8 (of Mac OS X).

My computer has been running fine.

Yesterday, I installed Final Cut Pro 7.0 and when I opened it, my computer nearly froze, going into extreme snail mode. (I’d move the mouse, and the desktop action would correspond like one minute later).

After restarting computer, I used Disk Utility, and used Repair Disk Permissions. After several minutes, it made some repairs. I closed, restarted, and tried FCP again. But same problem: once opened, the entire computer got super-sluggish.

Then I restarted, and tried upgrades. There was one. I downloaded, it added, I restarted, and same problem. Our problems sound similar.

I’m also reading about others having problems exclusively with putting fcp7 on their iMac, but not on their Mac laptops.

[Jon Grimson]

I’ve also found that re-setting QMaster can solve some of these weird problems. If you’ve been running projects through Compressor, you may try this. My issue was resolved when I figured out that I had to change my toolbar location from 2nd monitor to laptop screen. So I think my problem could have been related to video memory issues. Make sure graphics is optimized for performance rather than battery life in Energy settings system preferences.

Hope this helps!

[Grant Gladish]

Thanks. I’ll look at the Energy Setting prefs.

But fyi, I hadn’t been using compressor or been doing anything with video (other than iMovie months ago) on this computer.

Thanks.

[Steve Gustine]

Brian said: “Oh yeah, I was able to change the above settings by making the previous Scratch Disk offline. System Settings opened up before the usually crash.”

This worked for me. I had been moving some things around, cleaning up my hard drive and must have moved the wrong file. Thanks for the info. I can get back to work now.

[Phi Glazer]

Hi Guys

Please help me – I have exactly the same problem and yes I moved some files around – fcp asked me about the scartch disks and now its just crashing at start-up. Problem is I don;t know which files to move back to where? Bit clueless, please help if you can!!!!

Phi