Final Cut screen flashing GREEN during playback!

[Michael Gissing]

Can’t say I have ever suffered that issue. I have an ATI graphics card however which is recommended. However, I am sure FCP can work with the GForce cards. Do you have the latest driver for your OS? Are there any filters on your clips. Are there any stills files like big jpegs/tiffs etc. How big is your project file and do you have a huge timeline with lots of tracks? So many variables.

Audio is causing grief so are all clips 48khz with sequence settings to match. Are there any nasty mp3s or aac files or sample rates like 32khz or 44.1khz.

Your crash report may give more clues.

[Thomas Newman]

Yeah Ive got all my audio files compressed to AIF and dont have more than 8 tracks now for the following: BG/SFX/MUSIC/FOLEY/

They are all proper formats to match the time line. I did just do a Graphics card upgrade and so far the green flashing has disappeared! I did the upgrade from the MAC showing it needs it then from the website for the card. Im thinking it fixed it but I will only tell after I get through 3o mins of work with no crash. Ill post the crash report next but am hoping i wont have to. Finger crossed!

Thanks

[Michael Gissing]

[Thomas Newman] “Yeah Ive got all my audio files compressed to AIF”

Technically they are uncompressed but that’s how it should be in FCP.

Hope the driver update will be the trick. Good luck

[Doug Nichol]

I had this same problem, same specs, and it turned out that it was the size of my Final Cut project file that was causing problems. Make sure it doesn”t get over 300MB -that’s when stuff started going wrong for me. The project seems to get unstable at that point no matter how much RAM you have installed.

[Thomas Newman]

Hi,

Thanks for the advice. My project size is 350 MB because its a full length feature. What do you suggest I do? Break it up to smaller sequences perhaps where its allowable? Any more insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Thomas

Bong Of The Dead.com

[Doug Nichol]

Same with me – a feature as well. I broke the project up into several smaller projects, only keeping the media that pertained to those sequences, etc… I try to keep my projects under 200MB and have had no problems since then. Good luck.

[Thomas Newman]

Hey,

Thank you for the great advice of splitting up the project! I wish Apple would’ve let me know that the coolest and best editing software out there (In my opinion) had a thresh hold for project sizes! Did they not expect people to make full length movies with it? Anyway, I am in the process of splitting my project into segments so I’m sifting through over 20 thousand files of all sorts of shapes and sizes. I think it will be fine now. I will report back here in 2-3 weeks after Ive had some solid testing.

Thomas

Bong Of The Dead.com

[Doug Nichol]

Yeah I don’t know why FCP has trouble when the project file gets that big… someone said it was a flaw from the beginning when they designed the program – there is some kind of memory cap as to how big the projects can be. I’ve found you can keep the project file pretty small if you don’t include the original media files in your project. If you have progressed on to having selects or edited sequences to work from you can just lose the media files from your project and then always import some back in if you need to. I try to only keep a few versions of each edit as well. When you get near the end of your film create a new project file and just import the XMLs from all the finished sequences and reassemble them into the complete film.

[Thomas Newman]

Well it looks like the glitches with the crazy crashes was definitely caused by having the larger project file. Ive managed to cut my film into 7 segments each of them now smaller projects in the 29 to 60 MB file sizes and all is well! Thank you so much for the help could not have done it alone.

Thomas
Bong Of The Dead.com

[Salomon Askenazi]

Hi

I have the same problem, but my project is only 8 MB!

It will be bigger, because it is a feature film, but I just started editing and this green screen is happening now! what else can I do??

Thanks