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Project size is large and keeps crashing ( posted suggestions not working)
MAC 10.6.8
proc 2.8 quad
mem 3GB
FCP7Im editing a doc and as stated by many ppl, by the time my project hit the 150 mark I started crashing, it got up to like 10 -15 a day. So I tried the making a duplicate of the project, one that would have the footage and one with the timelines. When I tried opening both of the projects FCP would give me the error that the file is from a newer version of FCP? So my next idea was to chop the project down into 30 min timlelines, deleting the others in each. But the file size grew?
Thank you for your time! =)
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oh right, my project was @ 240MB i split it up into smaller projects that are now 190MB. I am in pro rez proxy
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And for the record thats about accurate on the coffee.
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My project is a doc that really is a bunch of 3 min scenes. I could just group them smaller making each chunk 20 mins. Giving me 15 separate project files? Which can only be opened one at a time? Or do you think if they are thats small it will let me open several? As I stated before FCp would not let me open 2 projects at once.
If this is just the way that it is thats fine, I just dont want to be going about it the wrong way, when there is a more suitable process.
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HAHAHA oops, yeah lil mis-calculation there, more like ten 20 min segs, its @ 3 and a 1/2 right now , and still needs to be cut in half.
Ok 20 min segs it is.
Also Im switching over to a system w 5gig mem, that should help. -
but let me ask you, any clue as to why FCP says it cant open 2 projects @ once and claims that it is from an earlier version ? Is that a meme issue?
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Steev
I’ve always found that copying a project and deleting the unused elements doesn’t work as well as dragging elements into to a new project. FCP seems to hang onto things in the project file, even if they’ve been deleted.
Cheers
John
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[John Christie] “I’ve always found that copying a project and deleting the unused elements doesn’t work as well as dragging elements into to a new project. FCP seems to hang onto things in the project file, even if they’ve been deleted.”
Absolutely correct John! Corruption of the project, if any, gets duplicated the first way, and that’s never good.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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We’ve had this happen and dividing the project timeline did not solve the problem.
FCP7 keeps a project’s data much like an adding machine with a paper spool. You can keep subtracting but the tape just keeps getting longer.
I would suggest creating an empty project and copy portions of the timeline into it. You can drag source files from the old project into it as needed.
John
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copy that, in the process of trying the copying the footage to a blank project to work from (as suggested on another thread) to see if that will work, but im at 10 min with the spinner so far.
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Don’t copy the footage, just copy the sequence(s) and or bin(s) you need to the new empty project.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comDon’t miss my new Creative Cow Podcast: Bringing “The Whale” to the Big Screen:
https://library.creativecow.net/weiss_roth_david/Podcast-Series-2-MikeParfitandSuzanneChisholm/1POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.
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