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FINAL CUT PRO 7.0 keeps crushing
Hello Experts and Masters and Good Wisemen,
I have a question. A serious one, really. I have Apple Final Cut Pro 7.0 and I’m running it on the latest MacBook Pro 15 with 2.66 Ghz. I have a close to 2 TB of footage on a 4 TB Western Digital External Hard drive (that runs at 7200 rpm just like the MacBook Pro). So here is the problem. FCP 7.0 crushes within the hour or whenever I try to cut some frames with the Selection Tool from the Tool Bar by grabbing and winding the frames back with the tool bar or whenever I copy and past a frame on top of another frame? And FCP 7 first freezes and then CRUSH and DEATH! Shuts itself off.
Imagine working on a long scene and almost be done with it and having this kinda crush without having saving it or letting the Autosave save it. It’s really frustrating. Please help. What am I doing wrong? What’s the cure here? I even upgraded it to FCP 7.0.2 and it doesn’t help any. Worse. It crushes more. I switch back to the original. It works and then out of the blue, it starts the crush after one hour. What the hell’s going on?
Thanks in advance
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11 Replies
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What Codec is your footage? HDV, mp4, DV, DVCPro, etc…
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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Number things, first how is the drive hooked up USB or FW800, it should be FW800.
Is there anything else on the FW bus?
How is the Ext HD formatted? (needs to Mac OS Extended)
What is the scratch drives settings set to?
How much space is on the internal HD and the Ext HD.
Are you getting crashes when trying to save or when auto save starts?Then did you do a clean install of OS and FCP?
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Thanks for the prompt answer:
1. Yeah it is a FW800
2. Nothing else is in the the bus. Got Speakers connected to the laptop through the headphone slot.
3. Ext HD is formatted for Mac OS Extended. It’s the new 4TB WD, which is already formatted for it. But I made sure it was…
Space on the Int HD is 500GB and and about 350GB is available.
4. Crush occurs when I’m working on editing the timeline, moving frames with the Selection Tool.
5. Yes. Did install clean OS and FCP.Ironically this constant crush (once in every hour at least) did not occur in FCP 6.
My footage is in HDV 24fps (from Canon XH1)
What do you think?
Thanks a mil
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Also, how much RAM do you have?
Mike
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The new MacBook Pro with the i5 core comes with 5400 rpm but I got a 7200 rpm installed and the RAM that mac comes with is 4GB. And believe it or not sometimes when I open a final cut file, a 90min timeline, it doesn’t display the video and when I doubleclick on it to see it displayed, I got this prompt one or another of this: Out Of Memory, system low or out of memory. Isn’t a 4gb RAM enough? Thanks
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How large is your project file? Once you start getting over 100mb, systems can get a bit wonky…
Liam Lawyer
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The Project file is 311.3 mb on an external 4 TB Disk. Ironically for the last hour or so it didn’t crush, but I’m afraid it might do so once I start doing some complex cutting with the frames such as superimposing one on top of the other and shortening one of them.
Appreciate all the help.
Thanks
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In the recent past I experienced the same thing when working on bigger more intensive projects, especially when scrubbing. I upgraded from 4GB to 8GB RAM and haven’t had the problem since.
You may also want to check and see if the RAM you have now is “OK”. Go to the “System Profiler” and under the hardware tab select “Memory”. It will let you know what RAM you have and in witch slots and also if it’s “OK”.
That said, if the budget is tight, then I would be sure to rule everthing else out before purchasing more RAM. -
What do you have in that project to make it so big. I have project files that have multiple sequences and working sequences that hardly ever get much over 50 MB.
The recommended practice is to keep the project file on the system drive and the media and render file on the External drive.
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Just to add to this I have octo-core systems from 2009 with 16GB of ram and will get crashes once in awhile with 1080P 90 minute feature length films if scrubbing around real fast and doing it enough times.
though it was with fcp 6.03
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