FCPX Keeps Crashing

[Noah Kadner]

Constant crashing is typically a system specific conflict. I’d suggest going through this:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203477

Noah

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[Mark Suszko]

Something I ran into on my last fcpx edit was crashing if I tried to work with a clip while a render was going on. I had maybe six high def layers going, plenty of filters and some keyframing too, and if I didn’t wait for the little clock to finish going around to 100 percent, I’d get a hard crash from just trying to slide a clip or drag an in-point/out-point. Background Rendering is supposed to suspend when your cursor goes active, then resume when you’re idle. If I let the background renders complete, before tweaking a cut, all is well. If I don’t wait for the render, boom, it all crashes. But at least it comes right back to where it was at the time of the crash. Just an annoyance.

[Garry Mcgovern]

Exact same here – Had got used to it crashing every now and again before, but since latest update (and thus forced update to Yosemite, which I didn’t want to do purely because I’ve lost all trust in Apple’s stability with its updates anymore!) It can crash within minutes of reopening, then manage a few hours. Done everything bar a reinstall, but in middle of project now so will have to wait before I do that (for second time!). If I wasn’t so busy, I’d dump it altogether and learn Premiere or Resolve: so, so angry with how chronically the standards have dropped within Apple now. 15 years using various derivatives of Final Cut Pro, but I’m ready to jump ship now – just sick of it!

Oh, and I send report each and every time before anyone asks – though it’s been months now, and still no word on an update!

Sorry for rant, just so unbelievably frustrating when it impacts on my work so much!!! :/

[James Copson]

Thanks Noah, I’ll try that. Problem is I’m midway through a project so don’t want to try anything until it’s completed and signed off.

Very frustrating.