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FCP Not Responding when I switch Programs.
Ok, so I have been having this problem for awhile and I am fed up. The problem started on Tiger and final cut 6. What happens is, I am editing and say I want to switch to another program, any program, Finder; iTunes; Safari; whatever. When I come BACK to FCP, it gives me a stopwatch, then the rainbow wheel of death. Then i hit option+apple+esc, and see that its not responding. I have let it sit there for hours to see if it would recover, no luck.
I have tried everything, and now it seems that its project specific.I am now on leopard, with FCP 6.0.2. I did a fresh install of everything. But when I am working in my project, it still does it…. This is getting VERY annoying. Please can anyone help?
My specs are:
Powermac G5 Dual 2ghz
4 gigs of DDR2
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Is this happening with all projects in FCP or just one project? It certainly is not a common problem, that can assure you…
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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no, it only happens with 2 specific projects.
I have tried everything from deleting all render files, new capture scratches, migrating all data onto one drive, reinstalling studio, reinstall and formatting my hard drive, the list continues. I have tried to make a new project and reimport my assets but the problem will occur in the new project as well. Which leads me to believe its something wrong with one of my source files. The problem to that is I have over a terabyte worth of raw. Any suggestions? -
[Fred Beahm] “no, it only happens with 2 specific projects.”
I thought that might be the case… I have no magic bullets for this one, sorry.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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Even though you didn’t know the answer, it may be because of you that I found the solution.
After making my last post I have been trying to ‘pinpoint’ the culprit.
It seems to be one of my sequences.
I think its because it has a double nest inside of it.
I am working on a feature and it has over 115 scenes.
The way I am editing with my sequences is ) Scenes > Reels > Master
I don’t think FCP likes the master sequence that has the nests in it.
I am moving everything BUT that sequence to a new project to see if it works.
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Thanks Fred,
Glad I could offer some/any small bit of assistance and I hope you get it fixed. Do report back with your findings…
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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Drum Roll Please….
(dudududududududu tssshhh!)
I have fixed it.
WARNING TO ALL:Do not double nest your sequences in FCP.
After a good month of trying to pinpoint my problem I have finally figured it out.
I simply made a new project and moved over ALL assets from my browser EXCEPT the MASTER SEQUENCE which had my 9 reel sequences nested inside of it. The problem that was occurring I think is when I switched programs ie: FCP to Finder or FCP to iTunes then come back to FCP it would hang and then crash. In turn losing work sometimes. What was making it crash was that main sequence and it would try to refresh or re-prepare those nested sequences for it to display and it was just simply too much for FCP to handle.Thank you for having this forum, or I would of probably just given up and lived with the problem like I have been for the past month.
Also, thank you for reading my post and trying to help even though you didn’t have any magic bullets.
Take care,
Fred
https://www.splicedmedia.com
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