[Dilesh Korya]

Thanks Andrew, I dont know what I am doing wrong, but the mask does not carry through. I’ve had to work around it…Thanks ain for your post

[Dilesh Korya]

Thanks for the thought Rafael. But trust me, over the last year (since I first posted this problem), I have tried all sorts of things (including clean re-install, including OS install). Nothing resolved the issue. It is great that more people are responding to this- because I thought it was just my system.
I am now using FCP 7, will post any further problems once they start.
Remember anyone who uses Motion clips in FCP, don’t leave them without rendering them once they are placed on the TL, and save before you start rendering the clip.

[Dilesh Korya]

Hi John, Sorry for the trouble. The only solution I ever found (I continued with a number of edits after) was to edit each and every Motion clip on the timeline, once you had placed them in. I would recommend you render each clip, one by one (remember saving after each). This wont completely solve the crashes, they will still happen, but less. Also, if you have a big project, and to speed up re-load of project after crash- transfer the timeline to a new project. Then render fro there. Will be qucker to re-start.
Then transfer the rendered clips back (there is a really quick way to do it, using search for ‘motn’ fles, apple-c, then on the old TL, find first motion clip, and press apple-v, sorry havent got time to explain further).

Hope all this helps.

[Dilesh Korya]

No, its not your RAM. I get both errors messages. The only way to reduce the problem is to create QT’s of the Motion projects. Get rid of emedded motion projects. Then render the Timeline section by section, saving each time. Once you have rendered the entire TL, then you will find that the crashes will stop. Normally I have been told that it was the embedded Motion clips, but I think problem lies much deeper. FCP timeline, maybe, cannot handle lots of content from all its other subsidiary software. I did try to get rid of all my Motion clips, but I still had issues- but conditions were slightly different.
Just get through the rendering first- that’s the diffcult bit. Was hoping Apple would resolve this issue on last update- but didn’t.
Sorry cant help further. Couldn’t resolve it myslf; just don’t have too much to render and not too many Motion clips (I think!!)

[Dilesh Korya]

Thanks- but you sound more buddhist or esoteric. Still I shall give it a go.

Thanks again…