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Up a Creek – I Can’t Get FCP to Open
It’s one of those days.
I can’t get FCP to open. I tried opening from the project file which is saved on my external firewire drive- it got stuck for about 10 minutes at 9% while loading. I tried opening a project from my backup drive, which is a USB 2.0- I got an error message that said “File I/O Error”. I unmounted both drives and tried starting FCP by itself. At first it crashed pretty quickly, the next time it opened. When FCP did open, I powered the external firewire back on, and tried to open the project by doing a File>Open and got the file I/O error message again. I searched the cow for “file i/o error” and returned one thread which instructed me to repair permissions, so I did that. I tried opening FCP from the project file on the firewire again, and again got stuck at 9% during the load. What do I do next?
Jason
400 MHz Power Mac G4 2.9
832 MB SDRAM
(256 256 256 64=832-everyone asks)
FCP 4.5
QuickTime 6.5.2 -
6 Replies
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Try opening the most recent Autosaved version of your project.
You may also find this article helpful:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/restore_corrupted_project.html
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Try dragging the file off of the external on to your internal and open from there.
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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 4.5 <> Kona 2ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre
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Thanks for the advice, guys. I will try all of it.
Just wanted to add another bit of info. I found out that I am able to open a 3 day old version of the project that is about 1mb lighter (the project file that won’t open is 7.9mb). Is this a ram issue? I realize that my computer is about the slowest it can be to still allow me to edit. Have I hit the wall with how hard my computer is willing to work for me?
Jason
400 MHz Power Mac G4 2.9
832 MB SDRAM
(256 256 256 64=832-everyone asks)
FCP 4.5
QuickTime 6.5.2 -
I had a similar problem last week. FCP could open older versions of the project but not the latest one. It was a drive problem – the external FWHD failed shortly afrterwards
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sounds like corrupt media in the more recent project file?
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[Scott Witthaus] “sounds like corrupt media in the more recent project file?”
I think that’s accurate. I am going through the Ken Stone article that was recommended in an earlier post. The idea is to isolate which bin holds the corrupted media. Unfortuantely, this is a very tedious process as I have been working on this same project for a very very long time, and there is a lot of media involved. Of course, I’m starting with the more recent media, but still to no avail.
I think that corrupt media in the project file is accurate because the Ken Stone article had me take the media offline (copy project file to internal hard drive, turn off external hard drive that hosts the capture scratch, load project file from internal with media disconnected). The file did open when the media was disconnected.
Thanks, everyone, for all of the good tips. If there are any more, please keep them coming.
Jason
400 MHz Power Mac G4 2.9
832 MB SDRAM
(256 256 256 64=832-everyone asks)
FCP 4.5
QuickTime 6.5.2
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