FCP unexpectedly quits on opening

[Paul Escandon]

The only time this has happened to me where trashing prefs didn’t help was because I had upgraded Final Cut and there was a Plugin that wasn’t allowing it to start up. Have you recently upgraded or do you have any third party plugins installed in your plugin folder? Even if you haven’t upgraded recently, it might not hurt to remove the plugins from your plugin folder (copy them to the desktop or something in the mean time) to see if that helps. If that does help then you can try adding the plugins back one by one to see what the culprit is.

Check Library > Plugins > FX Plug
Library > Application Support > Final Cut Pro System Support
User > Library > Preferences > Final Cut Pro User Data > Plugins

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
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Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
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[John Lynch]

I haven’t upgraded or added any plugins. FCP was running fine the last time I used it (early last week). I tried pulling the plugin folders out of each location suggested but that didn’t help. Although there were triangles by each plugin folder, there was nothing in either of them. As soon as I launched FCP the folders reappeared in those locations and FCP quit when it got to the “loading video effects: vectorize color”. This may be the culprit, but I can’t find where it is located.

[Paul Escandon]

Maybe that is indeed somehow the culprit…

I did find this effect in HD > Users > Shared > Motion > Library > Filters > Stylize

Try temporarily moving this file into a different folder and see what happens to your launch.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
—
MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD

[John Lynch]

There is nothing in my Motion folder in location suggested.

[Josh Hatter]

You might want to boot off of the install CD and try repairing permissions, or use Disk Warrior.

Also, remove any 3rd party fonts and see if you can load.

and finally, try double clicking a project that isnt whatever is loading to start the application. Sometimes a corrupt project will cause that and i could see if you are clicking the FCP icon and its loading the same project and that project is corrupt, causing the app to crash.

Josh Hatter
HDNet Engineering

[Paul Escandon]

[and finally, try double clicking a project that isnt whatever is loading to start the application.]

He said he’s already tried trashing the preference files and when he does that Final Cut will no longer remember what the last program was to auto load it.

The other options are worth attempting.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
—
MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD

[John Lynch]

I have repaired permissions, run Tech Tool 4 Pro to rebuild the HD directory and optimized the startup HD over night. I also tried to open 3 other projects and FCP quits everytime while loading the video effects, usually at “Vectorize Color.” At this point should I just reinstall FCP Studio and update software from there? Is an uninstall FCP an option? Thanks for all of the previous suggestions.

[Paul Escandon]

Yeah, this might be a good time to reinstall it.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
—
MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD