XDCam footage in FCP

[Aaron Soffin]

I’m wondering if people fixed this on MBPs? We’re trying everything suggested, including trashing prefs thumbnails, and renders, turning off thumbnails, DiskWarrior. We’ll do a clean install if need be.

It’s a MBP, just bought refurbed.

Thanks
Aaron

[Philip Owens]

I’ve come to this thread very late but want to confirm everything that’s being said. In short, I have a large XDCAM EX HD 35Mbps project that is almost impossible to work with – timeline scrolling and opening a bin with icons displayed seem to be the most common reason for a crash, but they also happen for multiple other reasons – editing, in playback, including at least three occasions where I wasn’t even touching the keyboard and was across the room, nothing happening on the system and POOF! FCP just disappeared. It’s desperately frustrating, and as the project proceeds, it’s getting worse. To synopsize:

FCP 6.06
OSX 10.5.8
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHZ w/ 14GB RAM.
Media is on external eSATA five-drive Port Multiplied RAID

I’m trying the name only, no thumbnails thing now. If that is connected, I’m wondering if that, and the opening a bin of iconized clips, are also connected – if it’s something to do with icon/thumbnail creation or cache?

[Harley Williams]

Hello out there! Anyone resolved this issue yet? I have exactly the same issue and it’s frickin’ annoying. Turning off thumbnails in the timeline has helped a bit but no real solution