FCPX 10.0.1 -Viewer Window – BLACK

[Wendy Snyder]

Thank you all…I am nearly finished with this edit…so I am going to limp my way out of it…and then.. on to the Update. If tomorrow brings something unanticipated…I will follow your suggestion, and get out of Dodge. Many Thanks. W

[Wendy Snyder]

It is acting up again. Going black, when I add a dissolve. Shall I try Michael’s approach… All the data is on my 4th HD on my Mac Pro. It is also on my DROBO external drive. That is where I am importing the data from. Not sure how to clone it. Shouldn’t I just download 10.0.8…and re-link everything from the Drobo? Trash 10.0.1…..Your thoughts? Thanks.W

[Michael Sanders]

Clone the system drive (with Carbon Copy Cloner or something) and the data drive (updating a project and event to 10.0.8 format is irreversible) and then go for it.

You can safely go back with no problems.

You really have little to loose at this stage I reckon.

Michael Sanders
London Based DP/Editor

[Jeremy Garchow]

I would not upgrade mid project without extensive backups.

I would trash your render files again, you can do this right from FCPX.

Make sure to trash Event and Project render files.

[Wendy Snyder] “All the data is on my 4th HD on my Mac Pro. It is also on my DROBO external drive.”

Do you have two identical Events on two mounted disks?

[Loren Risker]

While cloning the drive is a very safe way to make sure you can restore completely and thoroughly, it’s time consuming and in my opinion not necessary at this stage.

As long as you have a copy of FCPX 10.0.1 (along with motion and compressor if you have those), as well as a copy of your event and project on a separate hard, you can always restore your current state by simply deleting the upgraded application, project, and event and copying your restored versions back.

How I’ve done this in the past: Make a folder on a second hard drive called FCPX_10.0.1_Backup

Copy your Final Cut Pro.app, Compressor.app, and Motion.app in there.

Make 2 folders in there, one called Events and one called Projects. Copy your event folder into the events, and your project folder into projects. Note that you don’t need to copy the original media, render files, or transcoded files as long as you have your original media somewhere else if you want to speed up the copy.

You now have a portable version of your event, project, and 10.0.1 version that could be ran on any mac, it does not need to be restored to your original mac.

Once you’ve verified the backup, unplug the hard drive and update to 10.0.8. Launch FCPX. This will update your project and event to 10.0.8 versions. There have been many changes since 10.0.1 and something might not work exactly right but hopefully at this point you’ll be able to get going again.

If not, and you’d like to restore, simply delete the Final Cut Pro.app and restore from your 10.0.1 folder, then delete the event folder and project folder and restore those as well.

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[Wendy Snyder]

Thanks everyone…I did trash the renders again today….twice. Even though I have imported from the Drobo… I did see that there was a Final Cut Event and Final Cut Projects Folder on the 4th Drive…but they were empty. I have trashed them…just in case. So now, The plan is to move the entire 4th Internal Drive material to a 3rd Internal Drive…and clone the Drobo material. Try to follow what Loren has suggested…And download the 10.0.8. Stay tuned.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Drobo’s aren’t really great for editing.

Perhaps try moving your Event and Project from the Drobo to the 4th or 3rd drive.

You can do this in FCPX, too.

Jeremy

[Wendy Snyder]

Interesting to read that about the Drobo. Will do. I downloaded 10.0.8 and the data reloaded easily. But then the program started acting quirky and then dropping frames and numerous odd other things. Spent the morning on the phone with Apple Final Cut, and then sent to CPU Senior Advisor….apparently 2006 Mac Pro can only have a maximum of 16 GB…evenly distributed and I had recently upped it to 24. Working out all of these details took the rest of the day…but now I am working with the edit…and when I finish, I am getting a new Mac Pro….done. Many Thanks for all your help and advice and especially..for your time.