[Steve Eisen]

Adam

Please do not copy your entire crash log onto this forum. It takes up way too much space.

As far as your crashing, you forgot to tell us the important stuff. What type of footage you are working with and what your sequence settings are.

I will take a wild guess and say that the files you are working with are not FCP compliant.
Your footage needs to be in a codec that FCP likes.

Reinstalling will not solve your problem.

If you really want to know what your crash log means, purchase Pro Maintenance Tools from Digital Rebellion.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

I’m jealous Jim!!!

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

I have gotten this error too. It’s usually caused by one the presets.

Try a different preset.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

If you read the post directly above yours, you will understand that this camera along with the million other cameras that claim to shoot HD video does not work directly with FCP 7. You simply can not import the files into FCP and expect your system to work efficiently.

Bottom line, you need to convert the H.264 files from that camera to an FCP friendly codec like ProRes.

You can use the camera directly with FCP X.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

In your finder select Go…Go to Folder and type in:
/var/spool/qmaster/

Delete these files.

Restart Compressor. You may need to modify or change your preset used to compress the file.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

Look at the post above.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

This is mention a million times a day. h.264 is not an editing codec for FCP 7. Transcode your clips to ProRes before you edit inside FCP. That should solve your problem.

Convert your mp3’s to 16 bit 48k.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

Check out page 53 in the user manual.

If you do not have one, there is hope.

ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/pub/Panasonic/Drivers/PBTS/manuals/OM_AG-HVX200.pdf

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

I would also delete the render files for the project and re-render.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

[Barbara Still] “I’m editing a short film that was shot on 1080i HD”

That does not say a lot. There are so many flavors of HD these days. I will take a wild guess and say that this HD footage is .h264 or some type of Long GOP codec.

Your scratch disc should be a dedicated external FW800 hard drive. A RAID is highly recommended. The server will cause you nothing but trouble.

I don’t know how much time you have spent on this project or how far along you are, ProRes is the best choice to edit efficiently in FCP 7.

As far as your footage, it all depends on which camera it was shot with. You may be able to use Log and Transfer to transcode to ProRes. The other alternative is MPEG Streamclip.

You will need to add a considerable amount of RAM to your system. At least 8 Gig.

[Barbara Still] “I also have a limited amount of time within which to work – roughly 5 hours to cut the final edit”

That’s not a lot of time. Unless the piece is a couple minutes.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group