FCPX hangs on boot, desperate

[Claude Lyneis]

Sounds like a great ending. Good to hear that sometimes Apple cares. It would be interesting to know how to arrange the workflow and project organization for large projects to avoid this kind of meltdown.

[Andreas Kiel]

A large amount of compound clips seems to be the issue. As far as I know Apple is aware of that and I’m pretty sure it will be fixed in the next update. In the meantime be careful with them and make backups of events and projects — either by copy everything or just project/event

https://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0/#ver397277a3

-Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

[Steve Connor]

Andreas is right, limiting your use of compound clips will help reduce project bloat. I look forward to the ‘fix” coming soon

Steve Connor
“The ripple command is just a workaround for not having a magnetic timelinel”
Adrenalin Television

[Jack Niedenthal]

Here is what I have done, for what it is worth.

First, I am bummed because I liked the idea of working with compound clips, now I am scared to death of them.

I have created 3 new projects for my feature film, each about 30 minutes:
Scenes 1-19
Scenes 20-45
Scenes 46-75

I did “select all and copy” from all the compound clips and pasted the scenes in their entirety into the project timelines representing the scenes above.

I created 3 new events for each of the three projects and dragged the corresponding compound clips into them (deleting the compound clips from the original event with all the media in it).

So I now have 4 events for the film, one with all the media, 3 with the compound clips. Though I really don’t need the compound clips anymore as I am now just going to work strictly in the project timelines.

When I import new media for the film I will load them in the event that corresponds to the scenes it is intended for. The 3 events with the compound clips will just serve as a backup for now but at some point I may trash them as they aren’t really needed.

When I am all done and satisfied with the 3 sections of the film I intend to copy/paste all three project timelines into a new “final” project timeline, then burn the DVD.

Jack Niedenthal
Microwave Films of the Marshall Islands
http://www.microwavefilms.org
iMac i7 using Lion 10.7.x, HPX 170 using only one 64GB card
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