FCP crashes constantly!

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Andrei,
Maintenance is the word.
Repairing Permissions and rebuilding the directories (DiskWarrior, TechTools,..) prevents hangs, crashes etc.
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Victor Perez]

We have had this problem before when one of our suites had large chunks of media mistakenly captured to the System Drive. Is your media going to the correct drive? Have you tried creating a new project and opening the same media that is giving you trouble there?

This might also be a good time to trash your prefs.

Victor

[Andrei Bocharnikov]

Thank you all for your fast input. Yes, I am doing permission repairing quite regularly and last time i did it yesterday. no difference… I will try the other options. Andrei B.

MacPro Dual Quad 2.8 GHz, 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM, Leopard 10.5.6, QT 7.5.5, FCS2

[Andrei Bocharnikov]

[Victor Perez] “This might also be a good time to trash your prefs. “

Trashed prefs without any help to the problem. I experimented a little and found out that if i do not drag clip to the timeline directly but insert it with keyboeard shortcut or drug it to canvas then FCP do not crash anymore. I have this strange habit 🙂 to drag clips to the timeline and place it to the point i need and to have option to insert it with sound or without. Now I am slowed down because i have to preach myself to get used to new style of editing because this funny FCP decided to crash every time i use my old good way to insert clips… ridicules…

[Victor Perez] “We have had this problem before when one of our suites had large chunks of media mistakenly captured to the System Drive.”

All my project data are on separate 2 Tb RAID0 hard drive (non system) and I do not have anything which is not related to the project.

Andrei B.

MacPro Dual Quad 2.8 GHz, 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM, Leopard 10.5.6, QT 7.5.5, FCS2

[Chadwick Chennault]

I highly recommend downgrading to 10.5.4 and reinstalling FCS. Final cut was nearly unusable for me (in spite of doing all the maintenance) until I did this.

[Tom Wolsky]

Do you have any third party devices on your computer?

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Andrei Bocharnikov]

[chadwick Chennault] “I highly recommend downgrading to 10.5.4 and reinstalling FCS”

I am sorry… how I downgrade to 10.5.4? Do you mean to reinstall whole system from the scratch?

MacPro Dual Quad 2.8 GHz, 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM, Leopard 10.5.6, QT 7.5.5, FCS2

[Andrei Bocharnikov]

[Tom Wolsky] “Do you have any third party devices on your computer?”

Matrox MXO2, Drobo 4Tb, some number of LaCie and WD external hard drives.

MacPro Dual Quad 2.8 GHz, 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM, Leopard 10.5.6, QT 7.5.5, FCS2

[Chadwick Chennault]

[Andrei Bocharnikov] “I am sorry… how I downgrade to 10.5.4? Do you mean to reinstall whole system from the scratch?”

Yes.

[Andrei Bocharnikov]

[chadwick Chennault] “[Andrei Bocharnikov] “I am sorry… how I downgrade to 10.5.4? Do you mean to reinstall whole system from the scratch?”

Yes. “

I see… I am not sure I can afford this in the middle of editing schedule but I will consider this step in near future. Thank you for the suggestion and sharing your valuable experience with me.

MacPro Dual Quad 2.8 GHz, 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM, Leopard 10.5.6, QT 7.5.5, FCS2