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Final Cut Pro switching applications problem
Hi There,
We have an interesting issue, Final cut pro does not like to switch applications. When going to the finder and back to FCP we get the beach ball in FCP. It take a good 30 sec to get control back, as you can imagine doing this all day is very frustrating.We have try all the possible maintenance methods, permissions, Applejack, etc, no luck.
Projects files are about 80MB, working on XDCAM EX and ProRes 422.We are running 2×2.66 Quad core, 8GB RAM, FCP 6.0.6, OSX 10.5.8, 12TB Fiber RAID split in SAN01 and SAN02. We have two machines and both have the same identical problem.
Any thoughts much appreciated.
“Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.”
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13 Replies
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Trash your waveform and thumbnail cache, then turn off the thumbnails.
Jeremy
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Done and no change.
“Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.”
Albert Einstein -
If you open a new and empty project, does it happen then?
I would imagine it has to do with the amount of material you have and the codec.
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With an empty project it does not happen, however my current project is only 80MB.
“Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.”
Albert Einstein -
Sounds like a corrupt project file, copy everything from the project that’s acting up into a new project.
80MB is a good size project file, if you select all before copying be patient, you’ll probably get a beachball for 20 seconds or so.
Bob Auiler | bob.auiler@mvpcollaborative.com
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We have setup new projects already and same issue. We still get the beach ball every time you switch applications or just by going in to the finder.
“Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.”
Albert Einstein -
Jesus,
I can confirm that I’ve seen this exact same behavior on many of our systems. The strange thing is it doesn’t happen on all systems, or all projects. You should certainly try all of the suggestions offered, but I’m not optimistic that you’ll see improvements.
The fact that it does resolve itself in less than a minute points to some kind of cacheing process.
Good luck.
Mark
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Could be a SAN issue as well. What happens if you aren’t connected to the SAN?
Jeremy
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Since there is no problem when you create a new project and the problem follows your current project, I would try to isolate corrupt media by moving small segments into the new project that works fine.
I would also create a new sequence and copy/paste all of the clips into it.
Bob Auiler | bob.auiler@mvpcollaborative.com
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[Bob Auiler] “I would try to isolate corrupt media by moving small segments into the new project that works fine. “
Digital rebellion has a corrput clip finder to do just this, but it costs money. It’s part of the FCS Maintenance Pack:
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcs_maintenance.htm
Jeremy
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