[Max Frank]

Hi all,

I’m pleased to report that, after a long night of endless crashing & Googling I think I’ve TG solved the issue.

I bought https://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcsmaintenance/ which has a tool that searches projects for corrupted files – turns out there was a photograph I downloaded a few days ago that, even though it was a small file size it must have had incompatible attributes that drove FCP nuts.

If it weren’t for that software I never, in a million years, would have found that photo.

Thanks again to all of y’all that pitched in to help out.

I hope this experience helps some other people.

Wayne

[Max Frank]

I can give that a try – just so I understand, what is your thinking behind this suggestion?

W

[Max Frank]

Hi David,

Thanks for asking.

I get this problem, even if there is only one sequence open.

W

[Max Frank]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for taking the time to write and help.

I’m afraid I need to answer negative to all of the above, ie, I’m not running a Matrox card or anything like that, and I don’t have my stills cache set to higher than 30%, etc.

I’ve also tried copying to another timeline and project – as well as logging in as another user.

I’m starting to think there may be a problem with the RAM [?!]

Any other ideas?

Thanks again,

Wayne

[Max Frank]

Another thing I could add, which may be helpful in diagnosing the problem…

After launch everything plays smoothly, including ‘green’ and ‘orange’ un-rendered clips.

However, after a short while, the unrendered clips start jerking and jumping and FCP plays all sorts of random video frames.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Wayne

[Max Frank]

I’m not sure if this is what you want to do or if this helpful but…

why not make sure all your stills are on the same track [say 10].
Then disable ALL the other tracks.
Then put your your in and out points at the very beginning and end of the ACTUAL project [so you can
maintain sync] and the do a QT Export, ProRes 4444 [with Alpha] export of the entire film.

That will make a stills-only layer with all the moves, etc baked in.

Make sense?

W

[Max Frank]

Hi,

I live outside the US and it’s not available here – so by the time I’ve added Fedex, etc, it becomes quite expensive.

However, if it’s much faster than regular software options [MPEG, Compressor, etc] – which is really what I wanted to know in this thread, then sure, it may worth it.

That’s why I wanted to hear from the herd.

W

[Max Frank]

Plus 1

[Max Frank]

Will take a look, thanks,

Wayne

[Max Frank]

Hi,

There is too much media to move to another HD, but I tried opening it with the drives disconnected and it still wouldn’t open.

Maybe I need to reload FCP and/or use Disk Warrior to clean my main HD [as recommended in another post above].

Thanks again,

Wayne