Michael Hadley
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Oh yes. Trash preferences. That’s really the first step.
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Did you add any media yesterday that might have corrupted the projects? Stills that were larger than 4,000 pixels? Any non-standard footage with a weird codec like photo jpeg? That’s caused corruption of events for me. Delete the offending media manually, manually transcode the media and then re-import.
If that’s not issue here are some other things to try:
If you can at least open the project, select all, copy it, create a brand new project and then copy-paste the old timeline into.
Use Digital Rebellion’s free app to trash use preferences for starters. Then repair permissions on the volume where the event and project stored (using Disk Utility). Then, use Disk Warrior to repair to directory on the same volume.
Good luck.
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What do you guys think about the using the 15″ MBPr as your “broadcast” monitor (in FCPX anyway) and then using a larger LCD/CD for your workspace?
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I have both on the same systems and have no problems but run the other way these days. Rarely on 7; mostly on X. No issues. Well, definitely some beach balling with X but I attribute that to the relatively new nature of the beast.
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Well, I’ve been using X for approx 6 months. Definitely a love/hate. It’s gotten much much better. But still some scary corrupt events and beachballing episodes.
That said, when I go back to 7 I want to run right back to X.
I am sticking with it for now. I just hope I have made the right choice. The general hater-ism that’s out there is scary when you think about a roadmap to the future. And the delay on new towers and iMacs was unsettling to say the least.
On the plus side, the LA event is promising (hope springs eternal) and the new MBPr demonstrates once again that AAPL is at the top of their game when they focus. And that is indeed a machine pro can use–as a laptop machine.
SO, a real mixed bag. Lots of ups, lots of downs. I guess that makes it fun and interesting, right?
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Yes, FCPX can give one the jitters. But I’ve had issues with FCP7 as well, so it seems to just come with the territory.
It seems like your event is corrupt (to test this, hide the offending event and try working with other projects–a $5 app called Event Manager X makes this super easy). If X runs fine with other events/projects, you know that it is your current event is corrupt.
Check all the source for non standard file formats and delete this (convert and re-import). But I would first start with Disk Warrior. It’s something you should do on a regular basis anyway, IMHO and it may solve your problem like it did mine.
Good luck.
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I had the exact same problem (on a medium beefy tower). Even had the SAN warning.
I was able to resolve it. I did a number of things as follows:>>I used Digital Rebellion’s maintenance pack and ran Housekeep and trashed prefs
>>I used disk warrior (on the system drive and external media volume) I think this is what fixed it
>>I used Cocktail to run daily, weekly and monthly maintenance routines and repaired permissionsI’m starting to think we need to run Disk Warrior frequently with x because of the way it manages files and aliases–something gets a little out of whack and you are screwed. DW rebuilds the file directory on a volume. I’ve read that it should be done at least once a month on your system and your external volumes. (Of course, make sure you have a backup first!)
ALSO: beware very wary of stills. Make sure nothing is over 4000 pixels and FWIW I always convert stills to PNG. Also, I had some stock footage in another event that I was having problems with–it was in the photo jpg MOV formate. X didn’t want to optimize but that cause major problems. Once I deleted the media, manually transcoding to Pro Res, everything is fine.
One big lesson is that X doesn’t always know what to optimize and what not to. If you have any elements that are suspect, manually transcode and import.
Good luck.
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I recently got a 5870 fro my 2009 tower. It’s definitely been helpful. Not a massive difference but an appreciable one.
I chose to get mine from Apple for warranty reasons but you can get them off eBay for about half the price. Installation was easy-peasy.
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Well, look. Google’s main line of biz is selling ads. On the list of cool things that make life better, that ain’t one of them.
The free stuff–search, maps,–are great. But we all pay for it by receiving those ads. I’m cool with that but it doesn’t get me excited.
A new tower with lots of options–now that would get me excited.
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I agree. Seems pretty reasonable.
(In the past, the extra memory from Apple was quite a bit more $$. Maybe they are compensating?)