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FCP crashing on startup
Hello,
Yesterday afternoon FCP began crashing upon startup after opening large projects and I can’t seem to fix the problem. I made no changes before this happened- everything was working fine, then it wasn’t. First crash was while rendering a long timeline, after that I could get the project file to open but right away the rainbow wheel appeared and the program froze. Here’s what I tried:
-Opening different project files– very small project files seemed to open with no problem; large files all crashed the program.
-Trashed preferences- this allowed me to get into the project file I was working on and re-render the timeline that had crashed the first time. But right after saving the project when render was complete, the program crashed again the same way, and now once again the rainbow wheel appears right after the project file opens. I have tried trashing prefs several times and sometimes it allows me to make a couple of moves in FCP before it crashes, then its back to crashing on startup again.
-Ran disk warrior on all my external hard drives. This made no difference.I need to make final edits this weekend on a feature doc and send to postproduction next week- please help! Thanks so much.
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How full is your scratch drive? I’d suggest running Disk Warrior on your system drive. You might try to delete all your renders with the Render Manager. It sound like media corruption somewhere.
John
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Thanks! My scratch drive has 120 GB free of 1TB. I can’t use render manager since I can’t get FCP to open without crashing. Do you think I could just delete old render files on my scratch drive and rerender the sequences I need?
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Hi. I tried deleting all my render files and this is what happened: I was only able to avoid FCP crashing upon startup by choosing “Continue” when the dialog box informed me the files were missing. When I chose “forget files” the program froze. So when the program opened, I rendered the timeline, so far so good. Then I went to export to compressor, because I need to make a DVD, and while I was choosing settings an FCP dialog box appeared that 39 render files had gone offline– I hadn’t touched anything at that point! When I chose continue the program froze again.
When I open Disk Warrior it doesn’t let me run it on the startup drive. I am opening it from a disk image because I don’t have the serial number. Since I’m currently working in Uruguay, I can’t just go out and buy a legit copy. Im going to try running disk utility on the startup drive to see if anything needs fixing there. Any further advice would be much appreciated- thanks!
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Suggest you research the forum for posts about render and media files ending up the trash. it’s a very strange phenomenon, totally inexplicable.
Try to recreate this scenario and immediately save the project with a new name. This will create a new render media folder. Try rendering only a single clip at a time.
> I tried deleting all my render files and this is what happened: I was only able to avoid FCP crashing upon startup by choosing “Continue” when the dialog box informed me the files were missing. When I chose “forget files” the program froze. So when the program opened, I rendered the timeline, so far so good. < Another thing, instead of exporting to Compressor, just export a reference movie and launch Compressor separately, import the ref movie. Also suggest you do this in small chunks to experiment. I do not believe Disk Warrior will help you in this case and it will take manymanymany hours to rebuild the directory on 1TB. bogiesan
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I’ve found rebuilding the system drive solves many of these kinds of issues for me. However, unless you can get the disk image to a CD that works as a startup disk, you won’t be able to do that. Both of Steve’s suggestions make sense. Hopefully, they will help you get going.
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870
ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE Enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
24″ TV-Logic Monitor
Final Cut Studio 2 (up to date)Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN
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