[Matthew Handal]

Thanx Shane. I did most of what you suggested except I intallto the OS that came with my computer in recovery, then reinstalled the programs including FCP-7. However, I was have problems. The project I had been working on would open and then crash with any maneuver. A different project (much smaller) seem to work fine but not the one (a doc) I’ve been working on for (5) years. Did manage to find an older project file that opened and played but I lost (2) mod of work and I’m still not apprehensive about the “stability” of the FCP-7 program!

[Matthew Handal]

hi Shane, you sound very knowledgeable about FCP-7. My issue:

Working on a long-form documentary on FCP-7. Started having issues with El Capitan: more frequent crashes. Thought of migrating to Avid, however, it is NOT optimized for EC. Spoke to Apple, one of the suggestions was to migrate back to 10.9.5. The software that came with my iMac, which works with FCP-7 and Avid.

Wow, mistake. Not only was it a pain, but the project would not open. Crashed any time I tried to do anything. Reinstalled FCP-7, still had problems. It works fine with a “small” project I have but not my documentary. Finally I found an older project file that seems too play. Lost (2) months of hard work_but I think there are problems around the corner.

Is the project corrupted?

Is it the FCP-7 program (someone gave it to me initially_so had to buy a serial # online in order to reinstall_original didn’t work)!

Any suggestions? Thinking of buying another FCP-7 program, but at this pointI’m a little spooked and I am thinking of moving to Avid if I can figure how to do that. Avid is looking into it for me.

I appreciate any help you can provide.

Matt