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I can’t start my final cut 5.1 application
I have a G5 2.0 it is not Intel I have problem trying to start my final cut application.
I was exporting a M2V from my time line and I disconnect my external hard drive by accident so I close it everything and restarted again but final cut doesn’t restart it goes until the sign page disappear and it goes back to finder I did everything, reinstalled the application final cut studio, restart a few times disconnected my computer etc but nothing work can any body help me please.
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It is possible that your FCP project file become corrupt when the drive got disconnected.. Try and open just FCP and not the project. You should also try and and trash your FCP preferences.
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Trash your FCP prefs to reset it to factory default and then try to launch the application. If it launches ok, then your project got corrupted when you disconnected the media drive, this is a very bad thing to do when FCP is running.
Once you get FCP running, you can try to open the project but it’s very possible it will crash again. You may need to just create a new project and import all the media into that new project.
One other thing you can try is to disconnect the media drive again, correctly this time by ejecting and shutting it off, then launch FCP so it does not try to find the media. If it comes up ok, then your project is fine, but a piece of media got corrupted. You will have to figure out which clip it is and trash it.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Thank you very much You save my life I forgot about the preferences . so I just got your responce and I did it. It is working perfect again thanks one more time.
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In addition to Walter’s advice, I would use the last autosaved version of the project before the crash, and forget the current version. Open the autosaved one, and resave as the ‘master’ project file.
Good precaution in these situations. It may all look fine for a while, then head south….
Ben
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I am having the same problem with Final Cut not starting up. How do I trash my FC Prefs? Thanks.
Paul
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[pillywright] “I am having the same problem with Final Cut not starting up. How do I trash my FC Prefs? Thanks.”
That has been covered many times here please do a search before posting.
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Wow, thanks for NOT helping. I DID do a search, and eventually found it. I’m sorry you had to belabor yourself with my pitiful little query.
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The point is that in the 4 1/2 hours you wanted for a response a 2 min search would have found you the answer, besides it is not nice to hijack another persons thread with your own questions
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