[Gabe Miller]

While I didn’t solve the problem I did find a work around. I took the media offline and opened the project, luckily it didn’t crash. From there I isolated sequences, folders, etc., until I was able to find the ones causing FCP to crash. In this case, it was a feature project on the 18th cut, so there were lots of sequences (1-18 and then some), deleting all but the essential sequences seems to have fixed the problem.

These are the steps I took:

1) make all the media offline (eject the drives)

2) duplicate the project and open the copy (this way nothing get’s screwed up on your original project)

3) delete all unnecessary sequences, save, and close FCP

4) re-mount drives and open the project (copied version); for me, this stopped the crashes

5) if it still crashes, take the project offline again

6) make a third copy of the original project to use as a master with all the original data in it (there’s no longer any need for the copy made in step 2)

7) open the master (copied version) and a new FCP project

8) to make sure it’s going to work, start off by just copying your most important sequence into the new project and save it

9) close FCP and re-mount the drives

10) open the new FCP project that only contains that important sequence, if it doesn’t crash, we’re on the right path, if it crashes, unfortunately, I don’t know how to help

11) repeat this process, taking broad strokes copying everything to the new project except folders/files that you suspect might be causing the problem; it might take some whittling down and repeating the process to find the corrupt sequence(s), media, etc.

[Gabe Miller]

It’s nice of you to be sorry, but even nicer that you took the time to respond, so no need to apologize.

Thanks again.

[Gabe Miller]

I had tried that with no luck. It just goes back to 600 when I push “enter”.

Thanks all the same though.

gabe

[Gabe Miller]

Thanks Kevin. Unfortunately, that didn’t work, but maybe I’m not doing it correctly. I tapped L twice to get to double speed, then I tried the Shift+JKL two ways, once all at the same time, then Shift prior to JKL. Each time I held all three keys (J, K, and L) down at the same time, as I’d previously tried just using L, or J.

I did seem to be able to use the Shift then J to adjust the pitch on one clip, but haven’t been able to replicate it, so I’m starting to think this is a user issue, however, I’m slightly discouraged by tech support’s inability to recognize the task.

Just to be sure, I’m on a Macbook Pro Retina running OS 10.8.4 and Premiere Pro CC 7.0.0. It was explained to me by tech support that the Shift+J option to decrease the pitch was only available on CS 6, to which I responded, “so they made the program worse?” thinking they must be mistaken.

I am otherwise pretty happy with Premiere, however, this is costing me some serious time, what I estimated to be a three day pre-assemble has stretched into day five because I’m left to sort dialogue in normal speed.

Thanks again for trying.

[Gabe Miller]

Thanks. I’m starting to like it more and more.

One thing I miss and am not finding in X is the ability to apply color labels to clips in a collection. I’m thinking it’s probably because they’ll prove to no longer be necessary once I understand the program better, but for now, when making a choice from a collection of more than 5 takes, it’s very helpful to be able to mark my selects with a color, so I’m hoping X maintained this function and I’m overlooking it. Is this possible in X?

Thanks.

[Gabe Miller]

Exactly. Shortly after posting my question I realized how to do it, it seems just a simple, only through a different lens.

Thank you.

gabe

[Gabe Miller]

It sounds like editors who have been using FCP X have found ways around the select tracks forward or backward tool, but I’m not there yet.

Adding a gap addresses half of what this tool does for me in FCP 7. What I’m looking for is a way to select every clip to the right of the where the gap is so I can make that gap smaller (creating a gap works fine to add space); and, I’d like to be able to close the gap completely, sans having to minimize the timeline, marquee everything to the right, and then expand the timeline again to more accurately place the selected clips. In FCP 7 this was as simple as tapping T twice, and positioning the selected clips; deleting the gap was just as easy: simply select the empty space in the timeline and hit the delete key. I’d like to think Apple wouldn’t create an “revolutionary” program that employs more steps to accomplish a function than FCP 7 does, so my guess is the answer is in my blind spot.

Thanks in advance for your help.