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FCP 7.0.1 crashes with AJA Video Output Plug-in
Meant to post this yesterday.
We’re getting about 1 crash per day since the 7.0.1 FCP Update.
Video stutters in a 30 frame loop, then FCP disappears.
The “Application Unexpectedly Quit error” contains a reference to the AJA Video Output Plug-in.
It’s more of an annoyance than a real problem, but was curious if anyone else is seeing this.
OS 10.5.8 with the Mac Pro 2.93 Nehalem.
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I haven’t updated yet, but, I had this yesterday. This morning, I uninstalled and re-installed the AJA 7.0 driver. This seems to have solved my issues.
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My first experiences with FCP7/Kona were horrific, and not quite out of the woods yet.
I thought that it was killing my 8-core, and was almost convinced that it had fried the GPU. Most of this eventually boiled down to Snow Leopard and the “desktop” version of Kona3 6.5/7. Installing the NDD version helped a lot. At least it doesn’t crash instantly anymore.The behaviors I saw were non-random crashes that started accelerating until I couldn’t run FCP for more than a few seconds at a time whereupon it would freeze. It couldn’t sustain a render. I have experienced that whole thing where FCP won’t even launch, but I haven’t sorted out whether its because it encounters the Kona Drivers which won’t hand over control to FCP or just what’s going on there, but there are other issues.
I’m getting all kinds of garbage in blanking, right at the start of H-blanking, and if there is any frame-translation going on (conversion in framerate or resolution) then more garbage in the form of green lines in the vertical interval. You need an external scope for most of this since the FCP scopes are blissfully ignorant of anything going on outside of the visible image area.
At this exact second I’m trying to come up to deliverable spec for the National Film Board and it ain’t happening. I have now blown a week trying to fix a 9 minute short so it meets their standards. Trying to add Closed Caption is another issue altogether.
All in all I still find it stunning that Apple gets away with classifying this trash as a “Pro” application, but apparently there is no regulation other than constant rejection by the broadcasters. The ones with standards, anyway.
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[Joseph Owens] “All in all I still find it stunning that Apple gets away with classifying this trash as a “Pro” application, but apparently there is no regulation other than constant rejection by the broadcasters. The ones with standards, anyway. “
Definitely have not seen that many people happy in the Snow Leopard world, that’s one reason why I have not updated to that OS and don’t have any immediate plans to do so.
I have found that I’m still running the AJA 6.5 drivers on here so that’s probably part of it. I updated the other two systems, apparently didn’t get this one updated. Will report back soon.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Here in Chicago, I’ve seen enough snow to not like it anymore – part of the reason I’ve been more than hesitant to go with adopting a Snow Leopard.
I’m running FCP 7 on a dual duo MacPro Kona3, a 6 month old dual quad MacPro Blackmagic, and an absolutely brand new dual quad MacPro Kona3.All three machines are on OSX 10.5.6 and the two Kona machines are on Kona 7 drivers. Haven’t had one single problem with FCP 7.
The brand new MacPro came with 10.5.6 on it with a promised Snow Leopard disc dropped in the box before shipping. That install disc is quarantined in a file cabinet in the basement where it will remain for now. I just leave some food and water out for it every couple days and change the litter once a week.
I would never torture myself with undergoing an OS and ProApp upgrade at the same time. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. If you don’t need it, don’t use it.
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I too recently updated to the dreaded snow, and have found similar issues. We therefore have come up wit this statement.
Snow Leopard – rarely seen by humans, and on the extinction list.I will be wiping my system and installing 10.5 if I can find a copy.
Kevin
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Just to give you guys a heads up… I, too, having been having nightmarish experiences with FCP 7 (now 7.0.1), AJA Kona 3 card, and Leopard 10.5.8.
I’ve been in contact with AJA about the issues and we did dig up some programming errors that have been (are being) addressed.
An update to the Kona 3 card should be available sometime this week, according to AJA.
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Yeah, it’s continuing to crash here, especially if you have mutliple projects / timelines open.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Wait until your project has multiple Motion projects embedded on it. SLOW…..DOWN….
Your projects will almost come to a halt and the infamous beach ball of wait will be your best friend.
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[Wayne Carey] “Wait until your project has multiple Motion projects embedded on it. SLOW…..DOWN….
Your projects will almost come to a halt and the infamous beach ball of wait will be your best friend. “
I never use this feature as it’s never been stable in any of my experiences. We always render out any Motion projects and bring them into FCP with alpha channels. In fact I’m rendering one as I type this…..
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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That kinda defeats the purpose of the program. You know, its like writing out your video on the first track so that you can add video on another track after reimporting the first track. Makes it hard to change on the fly as it was intended. LiveType never gave us any fits with this… And neither did Motion until FCP 7 came out.
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