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FCP Bug?
I have a very stable MacPro Octocore running FCP 6.0.5 for some time now. But I can make it crash everytime. This is how…
I have to check 1000+ clips in a sequence to make sure the broadcast filter is the last on each clip. So I select the first clip in the viewer and look at the filters. Then I use the arrow down key to jump to each clip which then displays it in the viewer. This way I can rapidly check the whole sequence.
Problem is that after a while (about 200 clips) FCP becomes unresponsive for about 5 seconds then ‘POOF’ – its gone! It happens every time. And everytime it happens it offers me to report it to Apple which I do. But that is like talking in a one person conversation. Can anyone else here reproduce this bug?
I am amongst other things a software engineer and this reeks of a massive memory leak. And the ‘poof’ thing brings back bad memories of when I use to edit with Adobe Premiere.
Baz
What would I do without the ‘UNDO’ button!!!!
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I just stepped thru my entire 420 cut show the same way (ProRes footage) without missing a beat. So it isn’t FCP…
Shane
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Thanks Shane – I am suspecting it only occurs with HDV as I tried it with a HDCAM (uncompressed 8 bit) sequence and it was fine. Also, sometimes when in the 5 sec frozen mode the image on the sequence viewer goes into strange colour mode indicating it couldn’t decode the HDV frame.
Baz
What would I do without the ‘UNDO’ button!!!!
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OK so here is an update – I just updated to 6.0.6 and can’t make it crash… maybe its going thru an incredibly stable stage at the moment – one hopes it lasts forever.
Now lets hope they have fixed the export to tape bug thats been there since way back when….
Baz
What would I do without the ‘UNDO’ button!!!!
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I was troubleshooting a large and complex project that kept shutting down halfway through the session. It turned out that the editor had his levels of undo set to 99. I changed that and restarted the computer and Final Cut and the problem went away, never to return. I suggested to him that if he needed to go back 99 levels of undo, he would be better off going into his autosave vault and opening up his project from approximately where he was when he was where he started.
Happy editing
Sam
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[Sam – Senior Editor] “I suggested to him that if he needed to go back 99 levels of undo, he would be better off going into his autosave vault and opening up his project from approximately where he was when he was where he started. “
I leave Undo set to 50 and never use AutoSave.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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Hi Walter,
Thanks for the quick reply. I set mine to 30 and leave the autosave turned on. If I was just editing myself, I’m with you and turn it off but I work at a place where the skill set of the editors range from novice to fully experienced, so for their sake I tell them to leave it on and they are protected when they edit on their own.
Happy editing.
Sam
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Can you elaborate on why you turn autosave off? What if your project gets corrupted?
“The deepest blues are black” – Foo Fighters
(this doesn’t help me when I’m chroma keying!) -
Hi Jason,
For me personally (editing at home), I just do a save project as a few times during my edit session but at work I leave it on for the benefit of the other editors or producer/editors as we trade projects back and forth. I guess that it’s a personal preference of mine.
Happy editing,
Sam
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I’m sorry, I’m new here (how many times has THAT been said before) — but it’s still not clear to me what’s wrong with leaving AutoSave on? What’s gained by turning it off?
Thanks,
Scott -
Got me…I leave it on. Autosave has saved me more than I can count.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def
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