FCP Crashes on start up. Please help me!

[Jennie Reinish]

Your post just saved me, thank you!!!

[Bob Cochran]

many thanks, you solved my problem with the ozone plug-in. bob c.

[Jan Shah]

Clean my mac caused me the same problem.

[Todd Dalton]

Hi,

In case anyone’s still watching this thread; I managed to get my FCP started again with the help of Eric’s response:

I went to ~/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Studio/Motion/Templates

and deleted everything in there. So now FCP starts. At some point I’ll do a complete reinstall but that’ll get me through for now.

My guess is that if anyone’s reinstalling FCP 7 and not having any luck then they should double check this folder is ditched before reinstalling as it might be stubbornly hanging around….

[Nikolas Kenneth]

Tod thank you for posting that! That really helped me navigate to where I needed to be, however.. I got to Motion and the only folders in there are “UI Layouts” & “Library”. No templates, any suggestions?

[Kent St. john]

I’m having the same issue. There is no Templates folder inside of /Library/Application Support/Final Cut Studio/Motion

The only folder in there is “Library” which is full of a bunch of empty subfolders such as “3rd Party Filters” and “Text Styles”

I’m running FCP 7.0.3 on Mac OSX 10.8.3 on a 27″ iMac, 3.4 Ghz i7

[Greg Gregory]

Very cool that fixed the issue of crashing on startup with FCP 6.0.6 on Lion. It would crash when it got to the cloud on the startup screen.
This totally did the trick. Thank you so so much for helping. Very cool! 🙂

[Jeremy Thomas]

Thankyou soooo much…

After using MacKeeper to cleanup my hard drive I had this problem too. All I had to do was fix the ozone file in motion and FCP has come back to life.

Cheers!

[John Hopkins]

I kept my old FCP 7.0.3 because I had many projects on that platform. Sometimes if it is a 1080p ProRes HQ project I use it because it’s still useful even in 2020! Anyhow ran into the same problem after FCS Maintenance Pack, it’s System Streamlining feature. Got the same Atom HD crash at start-up. I removed the Motion Templates and bingo, the program booted again, and I was able to remount the project I was working on. I would not use FCS Remover as that would be a disaster in this case, as it looks it would be removing linkages and forcing a complete re-install from the original FCP disks. And your project file might need to re-link everything once you got FCP back up and running, and your plugins one etc. Anyhow, many many thanks for this thread. Saved my project!