[Fred Roberts]

Thank you both for your responses. While using the XFX tool I realized that the name of the plug in had been changed in the Finder. This was the problem. When I changed the name back to the original name, it was “reconnected”. Strange problem we caused ourselves.

Thanks again for the help.

[Fred Roberts]

Hi Jeff- Thanks for your response.

The plug-in is Pixel Film Studios – ProPen. I’ve uninstalled it and reinstalled it and still nothing. There is an orange render line over the clips.

I just can’t even begin to troubleshoot when I can see the plug-in and FCP cannot.

[Fred Roberts]

Thanks Emre. I guess I just didn’t believe that was still possible with cameras today! Appreciate your response.

[Fred Roberts]

That’s a good thought. Thank you. The guy is using a new camera…previous camera didn’t have this problem with the same set up (contrast).

[Fred Roberts]

Have had a good back and forth about this particular corruption of the project file with Jon Chappell at Digital Rebellion. I provided him crash reports from the only piece of software that offers some hope in these situations, Pro Maintenance Tools. His semi-conclusion:

“Something strange is happening here. It looks like FCPX is trying to render or process a clip and is ending up in recursion hell and probably running out of memory. This may be because a compound clip or secondary storyline is involved or because the database links between some of the clips have been corrupted.
The difficult part isn’t identifying the problem though, it’s trying to work out what you as an end-user can do to fix it. And I don’t really know the answer to that. FCPX unfortunately has a lot of bugs that fall into this category.”

Terrible to know that all the footage, edits, etc. are there, but FCPX project file can’t read them.

Thanks to all who offered suggestions and help.
Steven

[Fred Roberts]

Hello Bill-

That’s a very generous offer. Thank you.

We’ve begun to reedit for obvious reasons, but I have the ear of a very qualified person and I will report back to this thread. Thanks again.

[Fred Roberts]

Hello Sandeep-

Thanks for trying to help us out with this, we still can’t access the project.

We’ve exported one, incomplete version in h.264.

I’ve tried loading the XML version on the same machine and on a different one, no luck.

Best,
Steven

[Fred Roberts]

There are both types in the project.

[Fred Roberts]

I did something close to that on another machine, new account, no external hardware, etc.

Based on getting the same error message after the crash, I’m convinced it’s crashing when it tries to render, either a retimed clip or something else.

I’m just trying to figure out how to salvage a week’s work and not start over. I just can’t find a way to remove the effects before they begin to render. I just need FCP stable long enough to remove the effect causing the crash.

[Fred Roberts]

With no events, and just the project, it crashes. Same error message in crash report.