Final Cut Pro 7 project won’t open – stuck at 35%

[Jerry Hofmann]

Send me a copy of the project file. Be sure to compress it first… it won’t email right otherwise. If I can open it, it’s not the file… might send an autosave too.

Jerry
jlhofmann@me.com

Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann

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[David Roth weiss]

[Gian Franco Morini] “I had to update to Snow Leopard because of the new card.”

Did you update Snow Leopard over the top of Leopard? If so, that’s most likely your problem, and a clean install from the ground up of both the OS and FCS is the fix.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

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[Gian franco Morini]

Wow, thanks Jerry, i truly appreciate your help.

I just emailed you the project file, lemme know if you have any luck.

Again, thanks so much for your help!

[Gian franco Morini]

Hello David,

thanks so much for your precious help.

yeah, you are absolutely right, that’s the case, I updated to Snow Leopard on top of Leopard.

I will for sure try a clean install from the ground.

Thanks for giving me a new hope, I’m really about to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge.

I will do it as soon as possible and let you know if it did the trick.

Again, I have no words to thanks you guys, it’s awesome to have such an amazing pool of experts giving you help.

[Jerry Hofmann]

Well the good news. It opens. But I’ll bet you have a bad render file there, and it’s possibly associated with the plugins you’ve got going there.

If you take them offline by putting them in another folder, your project file may open. You can try reconnecting them, but that may lose some of them in my experience. The project has 1700+ renders associated with it. Hate to have to re render though. Start and go to bed?

Jerry

Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann

Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup

8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.

[Gian franco Morini]

Hello Jerry,

THAT’S AWESOME!!!!

You have no idea of the weight you took off my chest telling me you can open it!
I think it’s the best thing anybody ever did for me.

I actually put all the render files on a folder and made the copy of my project file, as you taught me,
but still Final Cut will get stuck reading the project at 35%.

Does that mean i have a corrupted media file?

Trust me, at this point the perspective of re-rendering everything almost looks as the beatiful vacation I can’t have, at least for this summer! 🙂

Jerry, again, i don’t know how to thank you for your help, you are the best.

Thanks again for sharing your great knowledge.

[Gian franco Morini]

Dear Dave,

I’m now trying to see if I can solve the problem through some render or media files,
since Jerry gave me the great news that the project actually opens on his system! 🙂

Being your solution more radical, i will wait for a second to see if I can solve the issue that way, otherwise I will go for sure for the clean install from the ground, and then update you with the results!

Again, I’m blown away by your generosity and helpfulness.

You guys are really special people.

[David Roth weiss]

[Gian Franco Morini] “I’m now trying to see if I can solve the problem through some render or media files,
since Jerry gave me the great news that the project actually opens on his system! :)”

I think the project opens on Jerry’s system simply because Jerry, like me, always does clean installs of software when upgrading.

The longer you do this the more inclined you will be to starting with a a clean installation 100% of the time. There are times when you can get away with something less, but those times you don’t will more than make up for any time you will save.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

Don’t miss my new tutorial: Prepare for a seamless transition to FCP X and OS X Lion
https://library.creativecow.net/weiss_roth_david/FCP-10-MAC-Lion/1

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.

[Jerry Hofmann]

To in stall FCS from up, OS et all.. takes about 5 hours or so. After you backup… which can take a lot of time depending on how organized you are. A new disk added to a tower makes this a lot easier. Disk images of FCS 2009 install in about 30 minutes… they do come in handy!

Jerry

Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann

Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup

8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.

[Gian franco Morini]

OK guys,

thanks again for the precious suggestions.

since putting offline render or media files didn’t do the trick,
i used the weekend to do a clean install from the ground and magically the project opened!

The problem is that if I re-install Magic Bullet Looks 1.4.3 and Mojo 1.0 still the Final Cut will get stuck at 35% and don’t open again. 🙁

(Note, i didn’t even install yet any other plugin I had on before, so I’m now sure the issue is connected to these two)

At this point I thought the problem was a compatibility issue between Snow Leopard and the Red Giant plugins, since I did not have the latest versions.
I did then upgrade and installed the Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite 11, which contains Looks 2.0 and Mojo 1.2,
but still IT WON’T OPEN! :((

I’m really getting desperate, I now run again out of options, and since the clips where the plugins are already applied look awesome, i would die inside at the idea of having to trash them and restart color correction from scratch! 🙁
would be six months of work down the toilet, except the edits.

The look i achieved is exactly the look i wanted for this project, i would feel terrible having to restart the process again using Color or something else.

Do you guys have any idea about what could be the issue at this point?

Maybe something connected to the CS5? (probably i say something stupid, but i really have no idea at this point of what the problem could be)

Thanks again for giving me a hand, I have no words to express how much I appreciate your help!