FCS 2 + Leopard not getting along

[David Roth weiss]

Did you run every single Leopard update until you got the message, “all software is up to date.”

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Shawn Gaiero] “Any Suggestions? Anyone else running Leopard having difficulty using FCP 6? “

Did you run every single Leopard update BEFORE installing Studio 2?

Did you then run every single update for Studio 2 BEFORE staring to work?

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[David Roth weiss]

[walter biscardi] “Did you run every single Leopard update BEFORE installing Studio 2?

Did you then run every single update for Studio 2 BEFORE staring to work?”

Right! The only time I’ve ever seen similar problems was from failing to run all the updates.

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[Daniel Haworth]

did you ever get this worked out? obviously the spinning beach ball can come form hundreds of different issues, but i had the exact situation as you seem to: just purchased new machine (8 core 2.8), with leopard, ran all system updates, installed FCS 2, updated that completely, started using FCP, runs great, then 10-20 minutes in, spinning beach ball, and i can’t force quit ANYTHING, have to hard reboot the machine, lose all my work. i had previously been using a powerpc g5, and have been told renders made on a G5 are not compatible with intels…so i deleted all my renders, started fresh…same issue. it’s happening right now! system functions, until i try to force quit whatever app i’m in..firefox, itunes, finder…then that particular service is dead until a hard reboot. this is complete list of things i have tried to isolate the problem:

-copy all used media off network drives (NAS/SAN) to local drive
-delete FCP prefs
-delete all old renders
-repaired permission on all drives
-ran disk warrior on all droves
-removed all firewire drives

this really seems like a file access problem…it’s as if a drive that FCP was accessing suddenly went offline…but none did, they are all (at this point) hardwired into my box.

i’ve also been told this may be a graphics card problem (mine is a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT).

is there some sort of crash log where a layman can see what caused FCP to crash?

thanks everyone.

[Oded Farber]

Same problem here.

Dual 3GHz 10.5.6 updated to the max
permission repaired (although it found nothing)

more details about the problem here is that waveform display slows down before crashing. seems like RAM problem but we work on 2 suites here on the same sequences but only one of them suffers from the crashes.
The network is connected but all media is local.

Another thing is that from time to time, the render manager looses all connections to the renders (have do delete them manually)

The FCP won’t Force quit on the Finder level.

any more suggestions?

[David Roth weiss]

Tell us about your media drives oded… And, how are you monitoring? Do you have a I/O card installed? It would help greatly if you would spell out your hardware configuration in your profile so we can help you.

David Roth Weiss
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David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Edo Medicks]

Hi, I have similar problem, which i suspect are related to the x.5.6 update. since the update, i have the mouse issue (https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8739409#8739409 )
and FCP hangs during launch. other FCS2 apps are not effected.
tried removing FCS2, re-install did not solve this.

can anyone else correlate x.5.6 and FCP issues?

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