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I’m at Wit’s end
For two weeks now I have been battling the “FCP won’t finish starting issue.” I’ve been dealing with by trashing the user preferences either manually or with the Digital Rebellion product FCS Manager. The problem is that I have to trash the user preferences every time that I want to run FCP – period. I’ve tried minimizing down to nothing any other programs running. Creating new projects with smaller sequences. Checking still size to make sure they are below or at 75dpi. etc….
I am running on a Mac Core Duo with 6GB ram, 3.250 TB of storage internal. I backup all my work nightly to an attached drobo. Adobe CS5 Production suite is installed and everything has worked fine until two weeks ago. No new hardware, software or anything else.
Can anyone think of something else to try other than trashing user preferences every time before running? I’m running FCP 6.06.
I really did try to solve this one myself.
Barry
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You metioned a Mac Core Duo. The only Macs I know with the Core Duos, are Mac Minis. Are you running on a Mac Mini? System specs and software version numbers would help greatly.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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my mistake
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Have ran Disk Warrior on your system drive? That’d be the next step I’d take. What OS are you running?
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Is this the same media in these projects, or are these all different projects/media?
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Barry,
I’ve had this trouble intermittantly and in my case it seems to be caused by odd render files getting into the FCP package contents. I’ve no idea how this happens (scratch, render etc. files are always set correctly as far as I’m aware), but it does seem to be an issue.
Anyway, have a look in Applications, then CTRL Click Final Cut Pro /Show Package Contents / Contents / at this point have a look to see if there are render files or a render folder. They can sometimes appear inside the MacOS folder.
This has solved the same issue for me a number of times. Hope this helps.
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Try creating a new user on your Mac? It’s as close to doing a full reinstall without having to do a full reinstall.
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Move all your media offline. Start FCP. Reconnect.
If the problem exists when all of it is offline – something is wrong with FCP/Your User/your system. This will rule out your media.
Best,
Jeff G
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I’ve tried everything suggested above. I’m using 10.6 OSX and moved the media offline and was able to start FCP. But after closing it and restarting – same problem will not finish opening. Have to force quit and trash user preferences. Tried the new user suggestion same end result. Tried the suggestion tyo look into the FCP.Pkg for render files – none.
Sounds like a reinstall of FCP is in order.
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Time out.
You can open the project without media, right?
And you can open projects that aren’t connected to this media, correct? (new projects/different media)
I think you have a piece of corrupt media.
FCS maintenance pack has a corrupt clip finder. You could also start reconnecting clips in small chucks until it fails. Then start connecting one by one until you find that one.
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ok – let me give that a shot.
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