Final Cut Pro crashing constantly!!!

[Thomas Newman]

I have no chocie but to transcode all my footage to prores I guess. So what are the exact steps I need to take to do this? I have my folders with all the original footage in it so d oI move them through Compressor then link them up again in the time line? i have some from After Effects that are already done with composites and so on so I guess those will be left alone right?

Thanks
Thomas

[Thomas Newman]

Learnt it the hard way I guess. I wish I knew this before I created a film with over 2000 cuts and transitions and all that. I will start from scratch and see what i can save I guess. Thanks for all the help.

Thomas

[Andy Mees]

Given the rather late stage in the game for doing this Thomas, you might want to use FCP’s Media Manager tool and choose the Recompress option:

https://documentation.apple.com/en/finalcutpro/usermanual/index.html#chapter=93%26section=3%26tasks=true

[Shane Ross]

Wait wait wait. Have you done EVERYTHING ELSE you can do to figure out the crashing problem? Trashed prefs? Repaired permissions? You dropped the footage into a ProRes timeline and the crashing continued, if not got worse!

Do you have another machine with FCP on it that you can access? Bring the project file and the media drives to that machine and see how it works? If it works fine, then something is up with your system. It might be fubar, and you need to erase and install the OS and then FCS. But that is the scorched earth approach…which is why I advise trying the project on another machine.

Shane

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[Thomas Newman]

Ok so her is the latest thing that’s popping up after an all night render. I get a message that says

“Codec not found. You may be using a compression type without the corresponding hardware card”.

Bow of course when I try to find a shot that I may have missed which could be the RED cam footage even though I have the right RED cam quicktime codec, it crashes on me. I have repaired disc permissions and I have trashed the prefs as well as re-install just FCP and still im getting nowhere. I truly appreciate everyone’s support but at this point I feel doomed and unlikely to be helped. Please keep your suggestions coming as I will try everyone to see where I end up. Hopefully I wont lose my movie in the end.

Thanks
Thomas