FCP crashes on start in Snow Leopard

[David Roth weiss]

[Tom Fuldner] “I’m having the same experience with FCS3 and SL. FCP7 crashes by itself; when round-tripping to Color and Soundtrack Pro.

It’s like owning a PC two years ago and upgrading to Vista: uggh.”

Tom,

Did you do a ground-up install of both the OS and FCS3?

I’d bet “bottom dollar” (BTW, that means “my last dollar”) you didn’t. Right?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Tom Fuldner]

David,

You have the goods on me!

I’ve been postponing the inevitable: a clean reinstall of the OS every application on my system drive.

Today seems like a good day to start.

Tom

Tom F.
Raleigh, NC

[David Roth weiss]

[Tom Fuldner] “You have the goods on me! “

Well, I really don’t think anyone who has done a clean install is complaining. So, catching people red handed is easy…

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.

[Dante Orpilla]

I had the same problem and fiddled around to see exactly where it was crashing every time. Seems it had problems when it finished loading audio plug-ins I had installed, in particular the VST ones… So I copied those out of my Plug-Ins folder in the Library, and tried it… and now it works seamlessly. Don’t know if this helps but good luck…

[Jordan Litaj]

Hey!

I had the same problem as you. Try to verify disk permissions of your system disk in your Disk Utility and repair them.

Since then FCP7 works great!

Hope this helps,

Jordan

[Steve Pittoors]

If you create a new user account, and open FCP 7 there, Final cut does work!

Only still can’t get it to work on my original account.

Snow Leopard 10.6.1

Someone said delete com.apple.finder.plist and re-login, but that didn’t work for me.

Thanks,

Steve

[Jerry Hartman]

For the record, it seems that having a “clean install” of Snow Leopard may not matter. I did a clean install about a month ago, and am still having problems. FCP 7 was crashing a second or two after trying to start the program. Deleting prefs and repairing permissions didn’t help. However, after seeing some of the info on this forum, I created a new account, opened FCP 7 in the new account and started a new project. I saved the FCP project file to a common drive, and then logged back in to the old account and opened the FCP project file. It worked! Don’t know if it will help anyone else, but for now it’s working for me.

-Jerry Hartman

[Elijah Lynn]

FYI, I did a clean install of Snow Leopard 10.6.5 and Final Cut Pro 7 and it has been crashing since day 1. I think I had it running once, but most of the time it just hangs and activity monitor says “not responding” and I have to force quit it.

Apple puts up a great image of user experience and even blocks others from installing their OS on non-approved hardware, it makes sense they have a hard time getting it working on their own hardware.

I sent in at least 20 error reports so far, so hopefully that will help them. Btw, I really dislike Apples policy of not letting developers interact with the public. Talked about closed.

[David Roth weiss]

[Elijah Lynn] “FYI, I did a clean install of Snow Leopard 10.6.5 and Final Cut Pro 7 and it has been crashing since day 1. I think I had it running once, but most of the time it just hangs and activity monitor says “not responding” and I have to force quit it.”

Elijah,

What you’re experiencing is highly unusual, and it can most certainly be traced to the hardware or software at its root, by systematically “following the dots,” as I li,e say.

If your computer was really “crashing since day 1” you would never have gotten to the point of installing FCS. Installing and testing the OS is the #1 dot. Then, add hardware, one piece at a time — that’s dots 2 to x, with x being every single add-on item in your computer, from RAM sticks to additional hard drives, and possibly even the DVD burner. Then, you keep going and eventually add FCS to the mix.

Anything less than this systematic approach will get you no where, and all the complaining to Apple will be useless too. This is science Elijah, it’s as simple as that…

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

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A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.

[Elijah Lynn]

You nailed it David! I had 2.0.1 version of the CalDigit RAID Card drivers installed and the latest version is 2.0.7. I pulled out all hard drives in my raid array and booted up, FCP 7 finally boots up, then I installed the new drivers and put the drives back in and everything appears to be stable.