I’m Crashing . . Will Final Cut 7 help????

[Shane Ross]

Well, we don’t know WHY you are crashing. Unless you know why, you don’t know if the upgrade will help you. I have worked on projects that are MUCH larger than that.

What CODEC are you working with? HDV? DVCPRO HD? ProRes? DV?

Where is the footage stored? What OS are you running? What version of QT? What version of FCP? When it crashes, does FCP produce a crash log? If so, can you post it here?

Shane

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[Martin Phillips]

Hi Rory – I was in the same boat as you with almost the same setup. I was having regular crashes and slight weirdness with FCP6. So I did a complete reinstall of everything but upgrading to FCP7. It has all been a lot more stable since doing this – I’m not sure whether that has something to do with the clean install. Anyway, I am slightly of the opinion that the combination of FCP6 and Snow Leopard was where the problems lay. Anyway, I am 2 weeks into the new install and it certainly seems better. Hope this helps. Martin

[Rory Keenan]

We are running Mac OS 10.5.8
The project is DVC Pro HD 720p 23.98fps

Could our OS be conflicting with FCP 6 (even though we are not running Snow Lepord)????
We’d been crashing a lot and were thinking of upgrading to FCP 7.

However in the last 2 days things have gotten worse.
We just got a new RAID drive array.
I copied all the media over on to the new drive . . . . and after I relinked, FCP recognized the media.

It’s a CalDigit 3TB RAID array . . . . CalDigit makes their own SAS card to go with the drives and we had a local IT guy install the card (he consulted phone support from CalDigit)

[David Roth weiss]

[Rory Keenan] “Could our OS be conflicting with FCP 6 (even though we are not running Snow Lepord)????
We’d been crashing a lot and were thinking of upgrading to FCP 7.
“

This has nothing to do with the Leopard OS. Version 6 of FCP has been running just fine under Leopard since it first came out, for more two or so years now.

See my response to the other thread you started on this subject: https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/1080602

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