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How often does FCS2 crash?
In all honesty, how often does your FCP and other apps crash?
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Never. If you are having problems its more than likely not the FCP2 Application. It could be your OS. I think FCP2 is solid as a rock. No rebooting on my clock . 5yrs and counting.
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[Nathan Quattrini] “In all honesty, how often does your FCP and other apps crash?”
once a month if we’re having a bad month.
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FCP rarely. Motion 3 quite often. DVDSP never.
Ben
PS – I often run Motion on my MacBook Pro, which may explain some of the crashes… (2Gb RAM and worse gfx card)
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FCP 6 has crashed on me five times since I installed it in October. ALL of those crashes are attributed to me trying to use the Colorista plugin. It hasn’t crashed for frozen during general use. Not yet….but it hasn’t seen regular use until recently.
FCP 5.1.4 crashed about once a month on me. Mainly unresponsive.
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[Ben Holmes] “PS – I often run Motion on my MacBook Pro, which may explain some of the crashes… (2Gb RAM and worse gfx card)”
I wouldn’t blame the MBP. I have tried and tried to accept Motion as a viable program and I can’t do anything without that thing crashing and it’s with a “fast” machine with a “fast” graphics card. Oh well.
As far as FCP, it rarely crashes for me either. The only time it really crashes on me is if I am playing with plugins as Shane has mentioned. For everyday cutting though, it rarely goes down.
Jeremy
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Nathan, you should be aware that there are issues with FCP/Motion Templates in FCP/Leopard
There was no problem in Tiger, but on some systems there is. My laptop FCP is very stable, on my desktop I crash within 30 seconds every single time I play a Motion Template… which I do all the time…
In general, I would say FCP is very stable, Motion crashes once or twice a day if you use it a lot.
Mark.
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Let’s see…today FCP crashed at least 8 times. Motion crashed a couple of times. I am ready to throw the whole damn computer out the window pretty soon. I hve been editing for over 15 years but I am fairly new to FCP and have done several FCP NTSC projects without too many issues. Working in Prores HQ at 1080i seems to be very problematic, especially roundtripping with motion.
I don’t know if it’s a problem using that codec or if it has something to do with the terrablock partition I am using…I have to do a little more troubleshooting.
I posted another thread asking whether ANYONE is using this codec at this frame size without problems and so far no one has answered. -
[Chris Campbell] “Working in Prores HQ at 1080i seems to be very problematic, especially roundtripping with motion.”
ProRes is a very problematic codec with Motion at the moment from what I’ve read and been told. We have had zero issues with it so far in our edits and testing in Standard Def. I’m doing an independent film right now in 720 ProRes HQ and so far no issues there. But we don’t use Motion all that much, we’re more of an After Effects shop.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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People are having problems with ProResHQ @ 1080.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/970480
That being said I have completed a couple of projects in 720 and in SD with PRHQ and all seems very well.
I have not been able to get Motion to be a stable program.
Jeremy
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We have 4 or 5 a week right now out of 6 systems I think XSAN is our issue until we can re-deploy in a few weeks. We are a little slower now in between series and need to do a lot of backing up. We were crashing a lot more than that when we were in full swing. One system in particular seems to have a problem importing P2 files form a NAS.
Jim Calahan
KVIE, Sacramento
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