• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Final Cut, Quicktime, and Pro Tools conflicts

  Posted by Joni Church on January 4, 2006 at 3:53 pm

  Hi there,

  I’m working on a “situation” I recently encountered, and wonder if anybody else has had this problem. It’s not entirely Final Cut Pro centred, but I thought this would still be the best forum for discussion.

  I’m trying to upgrade Pro Tools LE to version 6.9.2 with the install discs that were sent to me from Digidesign, and it’s wreaking havoc with Final Cut Pro and Quicktime.

  Initially when I installed the upgrade, I was running OSX 10.4.2, FCP 5.0.3 and QT 7.0.2. The Pro Tools upgrade worked fine, as did FCP when I launched it, but Quicktime wouldn’t launch- spinning beachball forevermore.

  So after doing all the basics- trashing pref’s and render files, repairing permissions, etc.- and finding QT still wouldn’t work, I tried upgrading to QT 7.0.3.

  Once I did that, QT still wouldn’t work, and Final Cut Pro would no longer launch. It just hung on the application startup screen, at no particular point each time.

  I then upgraded to FCP 5.0.4, and as well OS 10.4.3. No luck. I installed the Pro Application Support updates 2005-02 1.0, and 3.1, and still no luck.

  Since there is not yet a downgrade from QT 7.0.3 to 7.0.2, I ran the 7.0.2 to 7.0.1 installer, and downgraded to QT 7.0.1. QT still wouldn’t launch, and FCP still hung on launch but this time it hung at the point where it was loading audio filters.

  I tried removing the audio filters from their folders to see if it would launch then, but that didn’t work. At this point, the only thing I could think to do was to uninstall Pro Tools altogether (safe uninstall, not clean uninstall) and this is what finally brought Quicktime and Final Cut back to life. Great, because I use FCP and QT everday, but I no longer have the use of Pro Tools.

  Throughout this process I made sure to diligenty repair permissions, trash prefs, and restart whenever I made a change. Also, I chose not to install the Core Audio Driver that comes with Pro Tools, because I had gone through a similar situation in my home edit suite and it created problems.

  So I’m not sure at this point how to get Pro Tools LE 6.9.2, Final Cut Pro 5.0.4, and Quicktime (any version above 7.0) to work harmoniously, and I’m unable to spare any more troubleshooting time for a week or so because there are of course, projects due.

  Has anybody else encountered these oddities?

  Thanks a lot,
  Joni

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