FCP won’t save project!

[Bouncing Account needs new email address]

Try opening ANY other project and dragging your finished timeline over into that other project and save THAT.

If that works, create a new BIN in the second project and drop EVRYTHING in the “problem” project’s Browser into that new bin in the second project and save it.

Then, close FCP and TRASH the preferences.

Then, you can re-open the former “problem” project and “restore” everything from the temporary holding place.

[J. Tad newberry]

hey, thanks for the idea…but when i dragged the timeline/sequence into the other project, it crashed FCP. on a good note, last night i finished the project, rendered out of Compressor, burned a DVD and got it to the client first thing this morning. yee haw!

opened up FCP, reloaded the problem project and it hadn’t saved my last couple hours of work last night, but it’s still mostly intact. trashed prefs and moving along.

does anyone have an idea how or why this might have happened? just something getting corrupted? any way to prevent this in the future?

[Bill Lee]

[mortimer heathcliff] “does anyone have an idea how or why this might have happened? just something getting corrupted? any way to prevent this in the future?”

No Idea Why. Just happens occasionally. The best way to deal with this is to ensure you can survive a corrupted project or preferences by prior planning and preparation:

Preferences:
1) FCP Rescue: haven’t used it myself, but reports from people say it’s good. Will back up preferences (before they go bad) and be able to restore them after your preferences go bad.
2) Create a new account if you suspect bad preferences and log as that new user to see if your project will work with a clean set of preferences, without having to trash your old set.

Projects:
1) Save early, save often. Cmd-S should become second nature while editing.
2) Use Autosave Vault
3) Save your project to archive media at the end of every day. Use multi-session CD-Rs so that you will have a set of project milestones if you suddenly find that the corruption goes back longer than your autosave vault.

Bill Lee

[J. Tad newberry]

good advice. thanks. on the prefs, i’ve kept a copy of my good prefs in a folder that i just dump into the FCP folder whenever i need to trash prefs and it comes back just like i need it (except for loosing a little time on this last one). usually Autosave Vault is quite a savior in this area (not eternally, of course) : )

[Arnie Schlissel]

If this happens again, click in the Browser window, make sure that nothing is selected and choose File>Export>XML. Follow the prompts & make sure that you select an appropriate location & name for the file. This will make an XML file of your entire project, & you should be able to open it just like it was a real FCP project.

Arnie
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