[Gabriel Cullen]

Hey guys-

I have been having a ton of problems with my brand new 12core MAC when running FCP. I have 16GB 1333 MHz DDR3. The operating system is Mountain Lion. The processor is 2 * 2.66 GHz 6 Core Intel Xeon.

My problem is coming in many areas. First and foremost FCP quits on me every couple hours. Especially when doing any graphics work or dealing with files that aren’t mathced with my sequence settings. I have been doing workarounds though by trying to convert all my footage to Apple Pro Res HQ, but still I’m having all the same problems and honetly shouldn’t have to do workarounds with a system with this strength.

Also, when trying to render or sometimes even just playback I get a Out of Memory box come up, which is impossible with this powerful of a machine.

And on top of all that, when it’s not just shutting down or giving me an Out of Memory warning, the frames will jump around. Even when I stop the playhead the clip will show me an image that is from a previous clip. And then eventually FCP will just crash.

I’m posting on this forum because it’s the closest match to the problem I am currently having. When I first open up FCP things seem to work for 10-20 min, but then it all starts falling apart. But the solution of getting an ATI card won’t work, as my computer already has the ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB Graphics Card attached.

I have had these problems no matter what codecs I’ve been working with and no matter what size my sequences are.

I have the Matrox2 LE attached to my system but only run my flanders monitor off of it. I have all the current updates for the Matrox system installed.

Oh and I am running FCP7.

I am not a techie, so if you need more info or need for me to run tests please be specific as even some of the suggestions above confussed me.

I appreciate any help you guys can give.

Thanks,
Gabe