The final cut, she crashes. It seems to be the project’s fault.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Arnie Schlissel] “My internal “why is FCP acting up” divining rod is pointing straight at your H.264 “graphics”. “

Insert-F

Agreed. Dump them now.

Jeremy

[Kevin Monahan]

More posts should be prefaced like that. lol.

Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro

[Rob Schultz]

In this case, it wasn’t possible to keep FCP open long enough to export clips, and the crashing was happening before the graphics folks started delivering stuff – I’ll watch out for the h.264 in the future though.

At long last, we managed to copy and paste audio and video tracks from the old project into a new project, just trying repeatedly until it pasted without a crash.

Thanks to all for the helpful offers and suggestions. I don’t know when the project corrupted, but that seems to have been the case.

Rob Schultz
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This post, like so much of Creation, is notArt.

[Arnie Schlissel]

[Kevin Monahan] “More posts should be prefaced like that. lol.”

I’m working on it!

Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
https://www.arniepix.com/

[Aram Bakker]

Hi everybody, i´m completely new in this forum and my english, above all the technical one, is not very good, i´m spanish in spite of my dutch name.

Well, i´m a videoclips director (beginner) with my own little production company, that has his own FCP 6 workstation running on a MacPro
, wich is

Nombre del modelo: Mac Pro
Identificador del modelo: MacPro3,1
Nombre del procesador: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Velocidad del procesador: 3.2 GHz
Número de procesadores: 2
Número total de núcleos: 8
Caché de nivel 2 (por procesador): 12 MB
Memoria: 8 GB
Velocidad del bus: 1.6 GHz
Versión de la ROM de arranque: MP31.006C.B05
Versión SMC: 1.25f4.

With it i have a Raid 5.0(Sonnet).

Right now i have in my machine a project that had to be hand in yesterday, and i cant end it cause the FCP crashes constantly, and with it the Finder, so i had no choice to press the button to turn it off, anytime! 5 times daily, four days!

So now, though i have my backups of all the Media and the project, i told my client i´ll stop the project since i resolve the problem, my machine´s in dangerous.

About the memory i have 160 Gb free on the HD, and 2 TB free on the Raid, so that´s not the problem i think.

To summarize,
i´m working with .mov ProRes 422 HQ files (1920×1080) captured from REDCINE software from .r3d files (i shooted the videoclip with the REDONE digital camara). All my project and sequence settings fits to that.

Special or “unusual” things i´m doing in this project:

-Using a multiclip sequence.
-Using three variable-speed sequences (one for each instrument, wich i shooted at slow motion and then i fit them to the song´s sincro at 235% speed, more or less -variable-.
-I use to, in the first days of the edit, copy and paste segments from these sequences to the Master one, and i use to have 6 sequences or so opened at the same time (raid 5.0 and 8 nucleos allow that, i think). In fact, the FCP didn´t ask me for renders, it went fine till

IT CRASHES…

…then…

-I call my expert friends at the support (Gráfica Directa here in Madrid), and told me to erased the Preferences with the FCP rescue, it didn´t run on my Leopard so i did by hand in the customers library and erased the .plist and all the others in the FCP folder(Prefs,Obj cache,prof cache), as Ken´s Stone´s and fellars say.
Then, i checked and repaired the permissions of the HD, and also pass the Raid through Disk Warrior, rebuild and replace just to be sure.

Everything were ok.

-I start to reduce the number of open sequences in the timeline, and stop copy and paste segments from variable-speed sequences and from the multiclip to the Master sequence.
-As i need the slow motion shots, i work with them with the Fit to Fill option.
-As i need the multiclip shots, i put them in the timeline and substitute them pushing F, and taking it from the viewer. No renders asked. The playback goes just fine

I DIDN´T USE ANY FILTER, TRANSITIONS, ETC, NO EFFECTS NEITHER HARD PROCESSING FUNCTIONS…

But then, anytime during a playback

IT CRASHES!!!

And always crashes all the system the same way: FCP crashes, i force launch of FCP, it launchs but still appears alive in the dock, then i insist and nothing happens, i can use the other software..but when i get into the Finder it crashes also!! i force launch, everything disappear from the desk, unless the force-launch window, and doesn´t want to relaunch till i press the f—- on/off button of the MacPro. Always the same. It really hurts!

The machine is 5 months old, and i had to format both HD and Raid once.
Two months ago, due to a problem that i had with a colorist that put the scratch disk of the Color software in the HD and not in the Raid, the Color crashes and the Raid appears with a padlock in the desk and start strange and irregular behaviour. So with the supervision of the support guys, i back-uped everything, format the Raid, finish in 40 days some works i had in process and when i finished them, following the support guys advice, i format the HD with the proper back-up (including the Media of the REDONE project that´s tormenting me now). Reinstall MacOs and reinstall FCP 6, reconnect the Redone project and its media, and start the crashes and hungs. With the support guys i thought could be the project, that was corrupted, so i made a new project with exactly the same settings, copy and paste all the sequences(including the master one and the multicamara clip), and save it as a new project.

No improves, still crashes.

PLEASE NOTE: THE ADMIN TEAM HAVE REMOVED PAGES AND PAGES OF FCP ERROR REPORTS FROM THE END OF THIS POST AS THESE ARCANE CODES DO NOTHING TO ASSIST USERS IN ISOLATING THE PROBLEMS. NOT SINCE MAC OS7 HAVE CRYPTIC ERROR CODES MEANT MUCH OF ANYTHING TO ANYONE EXCEPT FOR THE MACHINE-LEVEL CODERS (WHO DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN FORUMS NOR DO THEY OFFER ASSISTANCE HERE). PLEASE DO NOT POST THESE KINDS OF THINGS ON THESE BOARDS IN THE FUTURE. THANK YOU.