FCP Crashes on start up. Please help me!

[Eric Peters]

Have you tried trashing your FCP preferences? I would give that a go and see if that clears up your problem.

[Mike Armstrong]

I tried trashing my preferences and my render cache. Still will not load up.

It gets to the “loading master templates” part of the start up and quits on “atom strand.hd”

“Rage against the Dying of the Light”

[Eric Peters]

Have you tried looking at the Atom Strand.HD template? It is possible there is corruption there that is causing the crash… Perhaps try moving all of the “Atom Strand.HD” associated files out of the Motion templates folder and attempt to start up with them gone.

[Mike Armstrong]

Where would I find the motion template folder?

“Rage against the Dying of the Light”

[Mike Armstrong]

I found the folder: I took out the Atom Strand.HD content & it loaded until the next template.

It seems to be a problem with All of the templates from 3D text Projects. –It is ALL of the Motion Template Files

Would simply re-installing motion solve my problem?

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[Eric Peters]

Reinstalling Motion might do the trick. I’ve honestly never actually come across this, but if you can afford to reinstall, it definitely couldn’t hurt. Otherwise, if you don’t actually use those templates, you theoretically could just remove them…

[Elijah Lynn]

I just saw this tool on Shane Ross’s blog.

It is a FCS uninstaller, complete uninstaller.

https://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcs_remover.htm

[Alfredo Barros]

Hi

I had the same problem today just after I used the application called “Clean My Mac”. So I guessed it was related to some frameworks’ folder. I solve it this way:

1. Control click the Motion App and choose Show Package Contents from the contextual menu.
2. Go to the Frameworks/Ozone.framework/ folder.
3. Delete the file called “Ozone”.
4. Go to the Frameworks/Ozone.framework/Versions/A/ folder. Pressing Alt and Command keys together than click and drag the file “Ozone” to the “Frameworks/Ozone.framework/” folder, creating an alias from the original Ozone file.
5. Open the Final Cut and I hope it works to you.

All the best!

Alfredo Barros
Final Cut Editor
Porto Alegre-Brazil

[Robert Trim]

I am having the same issue but no solution. I can’t fine the ozone.framework folder under my login. If I login as admin, then everything is fine and FCP runs great. I installed the suite under my login, as I have for all software, without issue. If I create a new user, that user CAN run FCP just fine. So I reinstalled FCP from version 5 to the current new version. Everything is great until the current suite is installed and then I lose the ability to run FCP. All other programs in the suite run fine. It seems to be a permissions issue maybe. I have run fix permissions. This issue only appears when 7 is installed. Any help on where to look would be greatly appreciated.

Bob

[Garrett Gibbons]

I know this is an ancient thread, but I’m experiencing the same issue. Nothing helps, yet. I’ve reinstalled FCP7 from the group up a few times and the problem persists (crashing while loading Master Templates). I’ll post if I find a solution.

http://www.garrettgibbons.com