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Help – Major FCP Problem!
A project I was working on yesterday in FCP 6.01 will not open at all today. Neither will any of the “saved as” projects or any of the 20 or so “autosave” projects. It will also not open with the media offline. It each case it reaches 40% and then crashes.
Other recent projects open fine (including ones worked on yesterday).
Versions of this project saved before yesterday open fine (including the “saved as” and “autosave” versions). Although a lot of editing changes were made, new elements added to the project were relatively minor (just music as far as I can recall).Dual 2.7, OS X 10.4.1, FCP 6.0.1, all current software versions, 4.5 GB RAM…. No FCP or other system weirdness going on (ie, crashes). Trashed preferences, repaired permissions, zapped PRAM….
Any suggestions? This is a major project with a major deadline looming Monday….
Thanks!
Aaron
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Thanks for everyone’s help!
I finally found the culprit.
Freeze frames.
I opened last version I could open (before any changes were made yesterday), started over, and saved after every couple of changes (a real pain!). Very early on I had a still frame from some video. When created using “Make Freeze Frame”, the project crashes on open at 40%. When exported via “QuickTime Conversion” as a still and then imported, the project opens fine.
Somehow the “Make Freeze Frame” frame is corrupting the project file itself (why else would it crash without any media?)… And then the problem only becomes apparent after you quit FCP and then try to open the affected project file.
Weird….
Aaron
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