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  • Project not opening

    Posted by Max Frank on March 29, 2011 at 9:35 am

    Hi,

    I have a large project that I’m unable to open on my 8 Core Mac Pro – but I CAN open it on my Macbook Pro.

    I don’t know if it’s because of some of the new plugins I’ve purchased and installed on the Mac Pro [Magic Bullet Denoiser, Coremelt Complete], or if there is some other issue, but any insights would be helpful.

    I’ve tried the following:

    Trashing FCP Prefs and cache files
    Repair Hard Drive Permissions
    Opening project from another drive
    Disconnecting the FW media drives
    Deleting the new plugins
    Voodoo Cantina

    Still no joy.

    The project gets to 3% or 4% and then stops opening the project.

    I am, however, able to open a trillion other projects on my Mac Pro, just not the one I urgently need to open.

    Thanks in advance,

    Wayne

    Max Frank replied 15 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Max Frank

    March 29, 2011 at 11:03 am

    Forgot to add:

    FCP 7.0.3
    OS X 10.6.4
    Mac Pro 8 Core

    Thanks,

    Wayne

  • Steve Eisen

    March 29, 2011 at 12:39 pm

    First thing I would try is move the original media used in the project to a different location on the drive and open the project. If it opens, you have a corrupt clip. 3-4% indicates the clip is in the beginning area.

    Try to reconnect each clip one by one.

    Steve Eisen
    Eisen Video Productions
    Vice President
    Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

  • Max Frank

    March 31, 2011 at 12:59 am

    Hi,

    There is too much media to move to another HD, but I tried opening it with the drives disconnected and it still wouldn’t open.

    Maybe I need to reload FCP and/or use Disk Warrior to clean my main HD [as recommended in another post above].

    Thanks again,

    Wayne

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