Text Screen inside FCP crashes

[Jerry Hofmann]

Dollars to doughnuts you have another bad font in there… MOVE any fonts you’ve installed yourself, then put them back in groups or something to narrow down the baddy?

Jerry

[Chris Blankenship]

I had this same problem and replied with this to another posting, but in case you didn’t see it…

OK, so I checked out some other postings and it was suggested that corrupted fonts or other font issues might be the cause. I bought a program called Smasher from Insider Software for $50. It was about the best 50 bucks I’ve spent. It IMMEDIATELY resolved the issue. You need to “Smash the Cache” to fix the problem I had, but it was very fast. When it rebooted I was a little worried as it looked stuck with some startup issue and wouldn’t boot up. I’m not saying I recommend this, but after about 10 minutes I hit the power key on the front and restarted. Came right up, and FCP text works like a champ again.

My 2 cents.

[Kerik Ino]

I have also used a “Font Smasher” that “Smashes” your font cache but haven’t had any luck. I had to create a new user on my system once upon a time and i think i may have tainted my permissions some how.

Paying for software like FCP is hard… wink wink… so we have to cut corners and sometimes getting software from “cheap” sources… wink wink… can result in more back end work than say… paying for it in full from adobe.

Okay

[Hector Berrebi]

OBVIOUSLY this belongs to another thread… don’t know how to delete this…

sorry

hi Rob

next time you can set an easy setup at the begining of your work that matches your format.

also, if you are on version 6 (which you should be) when you drop the first clip in a timeline FCP will ask you if you want the timeline to match the clip or clip to match the timeline. make the timeline match and work from there.

for now, duplicate your sequence
change the sequence settings to this

in the video processing tab put best on motion FX like this

then, select all clips on your timeline.
right click and remove attributes,

select to remove basic motion and distort

should put your timeline back to DV pal, might need to render, but far less than what you had to on an XDCAM timeline

if any resizing rotating or movement was done on a clip,
redo if simple, or copy from other sequence if keyframed and complex and just adjust the right size

good luck

Hector Berrebi
Schibber Group
prePost Consulting