Text Tool crashing FCP 6.0.4

[Nick Toth]

Have not seen this on my Power PC or Intel systems. All fully upgraded.

NT

[Andy Mees]

Working fine here on the vanilla FCS2 install on my rev1 MacBook Pro

[Dean Sensui]

Have you added any fonts lately?

I had a problem with Boris which perplexed me until I took all the fonts out and carefully replaced them.

I never did nail it down but at least it’s working again.

Dean Sensui — Hawaii Goes Fishing

[Walter Biscardi]

[Dean Sensui] “Have you added any fonts lately? “

Nope, haven’t touched anything on this except updating the Studio package.

I guess I should ask, anyone running 6.0.4 on the OctoCore 3.2 and having this issue? The more I learn about this machine, the more I find out it has issues more unique than any other machine out there. Our G5 Quad 2.5 is running FCP 6.0.4 just fine.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Walter Biscardi]

An interesting update to this. Even though I have my Font Book set up to only have about 200 fonts activated, all 1800 fonts on the OctoCore are still active and running.

Our other two workstations are working normally, that is whatever fonts are turned ON in the Font Book are the fonts that are active and available for the apps. On the OctoCore, I can’t seem to turn off any fonts period. Probably related to this issue.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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[Mitch Ives]

I’ll second that. The Octo machines are a breed unto themselves. We have had a series of issues that did not plague any other machines. I can also tell you that the 2007 8-core did not have the issues that we were experiencing with our 2008 models, which made troubleshooting difficult, since most of the vendors were testing on the 2007 model.

I intentionally did not install 6.0.4 or 10.4.5 on the Octo… it’s on everything else. So, unfortunately, I can’t confirm or deny it for you. However, given your fontbook info, I’m going to check the octo. If it’s doing that as ell, perhaps that was our problem as well.

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com

[Walter Biscardi]

[Mitch Ives] “However, given your fontbook info, I’m going to check the octo. If it’s doing that as ell, perhaps that was our problem as well.”

Let me know if FontBook is behaving the same on yours too, I’d be curious.

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[Dave Jenkins]

Hi Walter, I have all the updates and the text tool works here. We are on a 2.8 Octo.

Dajen Productions
Santa Barbara, CA
Mac Pro 2.8 Octo – AJA Kona LHe
Huge 1.2 Raid
FCP 6.0.2-OS X 10.5.2-QT 7.4

[Walter Biscardi]

[Dave Jenkins] “We are on a 2.8 Octo.”

Much appreciated. We’re on the 3.2 Octo, I’ll definitely have to dig some more when I get some time.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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[Dean Sensui]

Walter…

When I diagnosed my problem I manually pulled the fonts and gradually put them back in. It was a crude emulation of what a diagnostic utility used to do back when Mac was run by System 7.

Good luck with finding the trouble source. Can’t have “Good Eats” held up by a rogue font!

Dean Sensui — Hawaii Goes Fishing