Strange repeated crashes in FCP

[Tom Brooks]

I’d try the simple stuff first, trying to lighten up the load by turning off things like waveforms and thumbnails. Possibly reset the scratch disk for those items. Next might be to suspect your stills. Are they all RGB mode, not CMYK? Then, look to disk issues, such as too-full drives or directory structure problems (use DiskWarrior). Then try a process of elimination to isolate clips or render files that might be causing the crashes. Is it random throughout the sequence? I’m relatively new to FCP trouble shooting, so I hope you get some answers from more experienced hands at it.

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[Jerry Hofmann]

Render files might be causing a problem… might try trashing them all, and rendering again. Also might improve things by updating your software.. you’re several bug fixing updates behind.

Jerry

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[Jason Porthouse]

Kevin,

Had a similar thing myself… the fix was to turn thumbnails off in the timeline and trash the thumbnail cache. Helped the 3 or 4 crashes a day go down to 1 or 2 a week. This was with XDCAM and HDV. I’m not entirely convinced that the problem is down to something I’ve done, as quite a few people and differing machines are suffering from this in PAL land.

BTW, sorry if it’s teaching you to suck eggs but to turn them off go to the sequence settings, under the timeline tab I think…

HTH

Jason

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[Tom Brooks]

I switched to Leopard not too long ago. Everything had become very stable with Tiger, so I hated to change in some ways, but the time had come. My system is considerably more crash prone now. I have a sense that thumbnails are slow to populate the timeline and that it happens repeatedly. Before, I didn’t notice it much. Is there something new about thumbs in 6.0.4 or under Leopard in particular? The new system had thumbs on the system hard drive. I switched them to my RAID and things got somewhat better. The only thing I leave on the system drive (besides the project file itself) is autosave vault.
-Tom

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[Kevin Maguire]

Thanks everybody for the suggestions. The thumbs seem the likely culprit, as crashes tend to occur when navigating in and out of the timeline or up and down using the hand.

And yes, I need to get round to updating, but loathe to do it during a project.

[Jerry Hofmann]

Something else too… if you’re really crashing a lot, it’s probably best to do a clean install then update it all the way. Do it after you’re done with current project.

Jerry

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