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FCP project freezes upon open!
I have a project that I’ve been working in for 4 years. Yesterday when I tried to open it, the project would freeze. I forced quit and tried several more times… no luck. I went into my autosaves and found a version that was 6 months old. It too froze. Projects completely unrelated will operate fine. I tried throwing away my preferences; didnt work. Any ideas?
Its FCP 6.0
Its reading from 6 drives; 4 external and 2 internal–about 2.2 TB
Im running 10.4.11 on a single 1.8 G5, with 2 GB of ram.Any suggestions would really be helpful. This sucks.
-Gregory
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6 Replies
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Could be bad media files
Move your media into other folders and see if it opens. Include your render files.
Then reconnect it a few clips at a time until it gives an error message or crashes, save often!
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO, CD’s
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Thanks.
I tried unplugging an unreliable drive, and that seemed to get the project operating. But strangely that didnt seem to fix it completely because if I click on my finder/desktop and return the FCP its frozen again. This happens every time. Could this be a video card problem?
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I agree with Jerry. That smells to media corruption.
[Gregory Musch] “if I click on my finder/desktop and return the FCP its frozen”
And this may be a bug that some of us have been suffering in FC.
You are working with FC 6.0. Very little recommendable version. Update to FC 6.0.4
Rafael -
I don’t think this has anything to do with your video card.
Does this happen with every project file, like a new one?
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO, CD’s
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It doesnt happen with every project. Just this one. I did notice however, that if I let it pin-wheel for about 20 minutes. It stops and lets me get to work without any hicups.
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Sure sounds like corrupt media… often it’s render files. You can trash them all at once using the render manager on a sequence by sequence basis. Other thing to try is moving the media to another folder, then reconnecting of course.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO, CD’s
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