FCP4 quits immediately when i attempt to log and capture

[Richard Martz]

I too am having a problem with my brand new FCP system. I’m new to MACs having worked on PCs most of my working career.

Initially when I tried to open up final cut pro it came on and said that the program could not open because I did nt have a deck connected. So I connected my deck as instructed. The program opened fine with no problem. Then I tried to capture some materail. I was able to view my footage for a short time. I put in an in-point and an out-point and the program just crashed. I shut everything down, rebooted and tried to re-open the program and now Final Cut will not open. I have a 2.7 Dual Ghz processor with 4 gigs of RAM, Dual 23″ cinema displays. I bought the Apple instead of an AVID system because my counterparts said this kind of thing was so rare with Apple products. So Im pretty disappointed right now. When I click on the FCP icon in Finder the program sarts to open and then just quits and disappears from the screen. Since I can’t open the program I can’t get to the help menu. The manual doesn’t say anything about this kind of problem. I’ve re-installed the program and that does not seem to help. Can anyone help me?

[Joseph Bradley]

What I’m thinking is you need to upgrade QT to 7.0.2. and do capture now when your camera is attached to the computer.
As far as the second persons problem, your preferences somehow got screwed up. Now you’ll hear everyone tell you to trash your preferences but you need to trash all of them, not just the .plist. So, here’s what to do:

Go to: Users/(your user name)/Library/Preferences-drag, “com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist” to the trash.
Scroll down to the Final Cut Pro foler and sraag “Final Cut Pro preferences” to the trash. Then drag, “Final Cut Pro POA Cache” to the trash. Empty the trash and restart FCP.

Good luck.
Joseph