Final Cut crashing while using still photos

[Sean Mcphillips]

Sounds like they’re either too big (try reducing resolution – video only requires 72dpi) or they’re CMYK (FCP needs RGB – change it in Photoshop under Image> Mode > RGB Colour

Sean

[Shane Ross]

Try trashing the preferences. Download FCP rescue…the FCP 4 version.

https://www.pistolerapost2.com/fcprescue

How big are these pictures? Dimensions?

Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net

[Michael Alberts]

If your workin in FCP 4 than you need to consider to dimensions of the still. If it’s over 4000×40000 pixels your going to have issues in FCP. Graphics that size will slow FCP down to a crawl, and if you don’t have enough RAM could cause other issues. For you sanity the still doesn’t need to be more that twice your screen rez.

Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc.

[Ron Dylewski]

Hi –

I’ve had this issue from time to time as well, though it doesn’t always seem consistent in terms of how large an image it takes to lock up/crash FCP. With that said, I have found that the vertical dimension seems to be the one that causes the most heartache. I know that sounds odd, but, if you’re like me, you don’t always get handed images which are in either 4:3 or 16:9 — they are sometimes huge vertically.

Ron

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[Warren Watson]

Thanks for your help and I went back to check the info you gave me. Here is what I have:
– They are all JPEGs at 72dpi.
– none are more than 800 x 600
– All are in RGB, none in CMYK
– I have a few I’m trying to use for lower 3rds where the original size is 600 x 150 (which will be reduced for the lower 3rd).

About 5-10 seconds I click on the image and it pops into the viewer, it’ll crash. I don’t even get a chance to change the size, add a blur or even put it straight into the timeline before it crashes. I wonder if changing the files to a PSD or TIF would help.

Thanks,
Warren

[Warren Watson]

Well, I just changed a couple of the files to a TIF and a PNG file, same thing, constant crash. I’m perplexed. Is the bar open yet? 😉

Warren

[Tom Wolsky]

How much RAM do you have? Have you increased the still image cache size? May be bad RAM.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Ron Dylewski]

Just for kicks, try changing the size by a few pixels and re-saving. I’ve had that work (for no apparent reason) from time to time.

Ron

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[Ddcawoods]

I had similar issuess consistently whenever I used version 4.x w/jpeg files. Usually, a “green screen” would appear where I previously had a jpeg image. Very often, FCP would crash when i had jpegs in my sequence. When I convert them to PICT, the problem always goes away. With FCP 5.x I have been able to use jpegs without a hiccup.

David

[Michael Peele]

You are not importing the file in FCP directly from a CD are you?
If so FCP is just linking to the file on the CD and I can totally see this causing issues (especially if you remove the CD!)
Good luck,
Mike