[Gerrit Van woudenberg]

It’s a feature film. For the sake of audio post workflow, I’ve been giving each scene its own sequence (so I can export individual omfs and reference videos for each scene for the sound guys). So yeah, 70 scenes, each one its own sequence, and then the film is one big sequence with 70 nested sequences.

The project was 160MB when I started having these problems. I have since taken out everything that was wasn’t absolutely necessary. Now the project is 90MB. There’s nothing I can really do at this point to make it smaller.

I take it the nested sequences are a bad idea. Any advice you have on Final Cut workflow for feature length would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Gerrit Van woudenberg]

When I was able to get in, I tried exporting an xml of the entire project. Final Cut would crash at 64% every time. So I slowly deleted every thing I didn’t need from the project (old placeholder assets, old sequences, etc.) Eventually I got the project down to what was totally necessary and I exported an xml. I got an error with regards to a duplicate entry during the export, and when I tried importing the xml (which was only 12kb), I got an empty project. In subsequent attempts it finished exporting the xml without error but the file was still 12kb and the project it created was empty.

When I uninstalled it was always with FCS remover (or a full reformat.)

However your last suggestion seems to be working right now. I opened the project, copied everything into a new project, and booted that up. It started the same way, seemed fine until I clicked on finder, then it gave me the stopwatch for ~10 minutes, then the spinning wheel of death. I thought it was crashing but I left it anyways. About 20 minutes later, the spinning wheel stopped and the project was working. This just happened, but as of right now, it seems to be working fine.

The only thing that concerns me is that my thumbnail cache file still reads as “zero KB”. (I had deleted all my thumbnail files earlier as per a suggestion on COW.) But I assume this means the thumbnails have still not been properly rebuilt.

[Gerrit Van woudenberg]

Update on the problem: I have found a way to open the project without crashing. I have to open Final Cut first and then open the project using file->open. Then as it loads, I can’t touch any other program. If I click on finder (or firefox or whatever) while its loading, Final Cut crashes as it finishes loading. This goes while I’m working on it too; as soon as I click anything outside of Final Cut, it crashes.

But this means I am able salvage whats inside. Unfortunately though, not via the xml route (generates empty projects). Tomorrow I will create a new project and copy everything over into new sequences, and try to rebuild my master sequence with its 70 nested sequences.

[Gerrit Van woudenberg]

Well Jeremy I’m not sure what it is you’re telling me to do here. I’ve read every thread I can find about KGCore and Final Cut freezing while opening projects.

Solutions from these threads that haven’t worked:
– Deleting thumbnail cache
– Deleting render files, audio render files, waveform cache
– Disk warrior checked both my media drives and they came out clean
– Ran FCS Maintenance corrupt clip finder. Found 1 clip (which I don’t think was ever referenced in the project) and deleted it.
– I’ve looked for obscure render files inside the package contents of my FCP (there weren’t any, imagine that.)

[Gerrit Van woudenberg]

This evening I reformatted again (to 10.6.4) and I installed Quicktime 7 off the OSX install disc optional installs. Then I installed Final Cut. Testing the project, I got the same crash immediately and on every subsequent attempt. So I’m starting to think that installing quicktime 7 in snow leopard might have something to do with it. (I also installed quicktime 7 before this last reformat yesterday evening (the night before these crashes started happening again.)

Tomorrow I will reformat to 10.5 so I won’t have to install quicktime 7, and we’ll see what happens.

[Gerrit Van woudenberg]

In the Creative Cow threads on KGCore plug-in crashes, the solution is to delete your thumbnail cache files and restart Final Cut, having it rebuild the the thumbnail cache on restart.

I tried it. It still crashes the exact same way every time.

[Gerrit Van woudenberg]

[Diego Piro] “Doesn’t matter if FCP crashes when opening FCP or when opening a project. If you get the KGcore plug-in crash just go to where you are saving your thumbnail data and erase the contect of the folder. That is it.
The data will be recreated when you open the project.”

I’ve been having this problem for 4-5 days now, and this solution did NOT fix the problem.

My Final Cut’s been crashing just after the ‘offline files’ dialogue box while finishing loading the project. From where I would get the clock cursor thing for a second and then the spinning wheel of death for 5 minutes and then crash. After trying this fix, it probably took 1 minute before the cursor flipped to spinning wheel of death, but that’s about it. Still froze for a while then properly crashed after 5 minutes.