FCP crashing when adding a clip to timeline.

Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

FCP crashing when adding a clip to timeline.

Posted by Olivier Aubut on October 14, 2009 at 1:33 pm

Hi guys
I’ve been having crashing issues for quite some time now. FCP keeps crashing, at least once a day. It seems to happen when I drag a clip from the viewer to the timeline.

I’m working exclusively with multiclips on this project so I don’t know if the crashing still occurs on normal clips.

It happens randomly, but always when I’m dragging a clip to the timeline and I can’t reproduce the crash, so I’m ruling out the “bad clip” possibility. I’ve tried trashing my prefs.

I’m running FCP 6.0.6
OSX 10.5.8 on an octo 3.2 GHz with 8 GB of RAM, Kona LH
Dvcpro HD on a G-Speed XL connected through Fiber Channel.

Here’s a link to the crash report: 327_fcpcrashreport.rtf.zip

Any help is much appreciated. I’m starting to show signs of carpal tunnel syndrome hitting command-s every 30 seconds. 😉
Olivier

Olivier Aubut replied 16 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 8 Replies
8 Replies

Tom Wolsky
October 14, 2009 at 3:20 pm

What OS is this? What version of QuickTime?

It could be a hardware issue.

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”
Olivier Aubut
October 14, 2009 at 3:32 pm

Thanks Tom

Quicktime is version 7.6.4 and Kona LHe driver version is 6.0.2.

Olivier
Tom Wolsky
October 14, 2009 at 4:10 pm

The OS, the operating system?

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”
Olivier Aubut
October 14, 2009 at 4:14 pm

10.5.8, Leopard.
Tom Wolsky
October 14, 2009 at 4:43 pm

You might want to contact AJA, but I think it may be a hardware problem on the computer, RAM or processor.

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”
Steve Knattress
October 14, 2009 at 4:44 pm

How big is your project?

I did some multicam work (9 xdcam dvcam) when my project size got larger ( more than 100Mb) I experienced many crashes.

Try and trim your project and see if the crashes still happen?

I found that just doing a “save-as” and deleting sequences etc. does not work.

You need to make a new project and transfer sequences etc into it.

Steve
Olivier Aubut
October 14, 2009 at 4:51 pm

Thank you Tom
I’ll try to uprade to the latest Kona driver, and if that doesn’t help I’ll contact AJA.
Olivier
Olivier Aubut
October 14, 2009 at 4:58 pm

Thanks for your help Steve.
This particular project is only 13 MB, but I’ve had problems before with projects bigger than 100MB as well.
I should start a new thread for this but have you had the chance to work with multiclips on FCP7? Is it more stable?
Olivier

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