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Chris Dixon
March 11, 2011 at 3:56 pm in reply to: Tiff causing FCP crash

Thanks for the help, guys.
I got them working fine now.

Turns out the problem was with my monitor. I turned off my external video, and the crashing stopped. For some reason the conflict seems to be with my Blackmagic 1080i outputting those pictures to my HD monitor.
But strangely enough, only in the viewer.
Once I have them in my timeline, I can turn my external video back on, and move the tiffs around all I want without a crash.
Chris Dixon
March 11, 2011 at 3:23 pm in reply to: Tiff causing FCP crash

Thanks for the reply Wayne.

I’m working in an HDCAM sequence, at 1920×1080. I’ve never had a problem with tiffs at 1500×1500 pixels before. I’m importing the tiffs one at a time into my project. The pictures are at 300dpi. I tried lowering them to 72dpi like you suggested, but fcp still crashes.
Chris Dixon
February 9, 2011 at 7:09 pm in reply to: Is FCP ever going to sort out the “large project file” crash problem?

Thanks for all the very helpful feedback everyone!
Chris Dixon
February 8, 2011 at 9:41 pm in reply to: Is FCP ever going to sort out the “large project file” crash problem?

Hi Rob.

I’m loading media to a centralized server, as well as mirroring it to an external hard drive, both of which give me the same results. I’ve trashed prefs. Haven’t tried the FCP Maintenance Pack. Is it worth the investment? I haven’t had this problem before, but the current projects I’m working on are much larger than I’m used to… in amount of b-roll anyway.

Thanks,
Chris
Chris Dixon
February 8, 2011 at 5:01 pm in reply to: Is FCP ever going to sort out the “large project file” crash problem?

I see this post is a year and a half old. Anyone still having this problem? My FCP crashes often during my current group of large projects.
I’m on v6.0.6. using 150+GB of XDCAM footage. The project file is 15.4MB.
I can’t even attempt to scrub through the timeline or even think about viewing a bin as icons without a crash.
I will try breaking my projects into smaller ones, but has FCP fixed this on the newest version?

Machine specs:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro4,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Chris Dixon
September 8, 2008 at 1:31 pm in reply to: Media Manager: Clips go missing

Thanks Jeremy!
Chris Dixon
August 1, 2008 at 3:14 pm in reply to: Clips Go Missing After Running Media Manager

Jacob,

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately when I tried extending the clips in the timeline, they had slipped a lot from their original inpoints.
I was able to fix the problem, sort of, by including the master clips not used in the sequence when I media managed.
But that kind of defeats the purpose of media managing since I’m trying to reduce project size from about 20 gig. There’s a lot of b-roll that I captured but didn’t use.
We didn’t have this problem in FCP version 5. Hopefully Apple will fix this bug.

Chris
Chris Dixon
July 31, 2008 at 2:14 pm in reply to: Clips Go Missing After Running Media Manager

I’m having the exact same problem with media managed sequences that end up with holes in the timeline. Have you figured out a fix?
The clips are all speed adjusted. Does Media Manager not handle speed adjusted clips? Is there a workaround? I need to adjust the speed of my clips a great deal.

Thanks,
Chris
Chris Dixon
July 23, 2008 at 3:26 pm in reply to: not open the windows (file browser, library and inspector

Trashing the prefs fixed it.
Here’s another post about the problem on apple board.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6658594