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FCP Project won’t open
Hi,
I have a brand new G5, running the latest version of FCP. The g5 has three internal 1TB drives, which I called scratch 1, scratch 2, scratch 3
I copied about 30 h of HDV footage from my current project onto Scratch 1, and then spent the last two days importing another 30 hours of HDV footage. I left about 225 GB free on Scratch 1, before resetting the Scratch disc to Scratch 2.
This morning when I tried opening the project I get the following message:
“This project is unreadable or may be too new for this version of Final Cut”I have no idea why this would be. I’ve never gotten this before.
Yesterday I had to force quit once and then continued off the last autosave project file for a few hours until I shut down for the night.
Could this have anything to do with it?
I do see all the media, but it takes a very long time until Scratch 1 (filled with 775GB) shows up.
Why can’t I open the project? (I’m trying to open the most recent project but even the older ones won’t open)
Any help much appreciated.
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1 Reply
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Are you saying that your scratch 1 drive is taking a long time to show up on your desktop? Do the other drives (scratch 2 and scratch 3) show up before scratch 1 on your desktop?
I had a similar problem with an internal and I was having all sorts of problems with final cut. It was a bad drive. It was brand new – inside a brand new mac pro 8-core and it drove me nuts!
If your project file exists on that drive too then that might explain the issues – but I would think that you might want to troubleshoot the drive.
Others smarter than me might have some other advice, but that sounds like exactly what was happening to me. The drive was slow to mount and it had all sorts of read/write issues that drove fcp -and me – completely crazy!
John
John X. DeMaio
Blackburst Entertainment
http://www.blackburstentertainment.com
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