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FCP 4.5 Crashes everytime!!!

illegalprelude

illegalprelude

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Mar 10, 2005
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Ok...what the heck is going down.
Final Cut Pro 4.5, everytime I open it, completly crashes on me and freezes my entire system

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this is what happens, please, any kind of help with this issue? I really need this thing up and running
 
Is it only FCP? It's strange for a single app to cause a kernel panic. Could it be bad RAM or a failing hard drive?

In the meantime, delete the preference files and try again.

What do you have plugged into the Mac when you use FCP? Could it be a camera or Firewire device causing this?
 
mad jew said:
Is it only FCP? It's strange for a single app to cause a kernel panic. Could it be bad RAM or a failing hard drive?

In the meantime, delete the preference files and try again.

What do you have plugged into the Mac when you use FCP? Could it be a camera or Firewire device causing this?
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I did a complete scan of my computer and tells me everything is running fine in terms of ram and etc.

How can I delete my preference files?

at the moement, nothing is plugged in to the computer in terms of camera or anything.

this all happened after i did a update for fcp
 
I don't have FCP personally so I don't know where the preferences will be, but do a search for "final" and "plist" or something similar and tell me what you find. If it ends in PLIST, you can generally throw it out without doing any damage other than losing some preferences. :)

The tests don't necessarily return accurate results, in particular with RAM. However, the fact that you can narrow this down to starting after the update makes me think this is probably a software conflict thankfully.
 
mad jew said:
I don't have FCP personally so I don't know where the preferences will be, but do a search for "final" and "plist" or something similar and tell me what you find. If it ends in PLIST, you can generally throw it out without doing any damage other than losing some preferences. :)

The tests don't necessarily return accurate results, in particular with RAM. However, the fact that you can narrow this down to starting after the update makes me think this is probably a software conflict thankfully.
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thanks for your help anyways :) but grr. i deletr the pref or so what i think it was and still no go
 
Another very weak piece of advice - repair permissions. It probably won't help but it's worth a try. :)

Is FCP seriously the only thing that will do this? :confused:
 
You might have to reinstall FCP. It's possible something w/the update went wacky and that's what's causing the problem.


Lethal
 
illegalprelude said:
i would love to do a re-install except i dont have the fcp disks
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did you get the App. off the net? that might be the problem, corrupt file perhaps?

is this happening all of a sudden? did you update anything?
 
illegalprelude said:
i would love to do a re-install except i dont have the fcp disks
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IllegalPrelude has the discs, just not where he is, he didn't steal the app.

Good man.

I withdraw my earlier remarks.

(Not the ones about blue and white football scarves however.)
 
illegalprelude said:
yea, i deleted the .plist files and i did a disk utility and still same thing
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Do you have the OS X install discs? Sometimes launching Disk Utility from the install disc will fix problems that launching DU from the System disk won't fix.


Lethal
 
LethalWolfe said:
Do you have the OS X install discs? Sometimes launching Disk Utility from the install disc will fix problems that launching DU from the System disk won't fix.


Lethal
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yea, I have the OX box right next to me. So if I put in the disk and tell it to launch Disk Utility and give that a whirl?

Also, presuming none of this works, is the best way to do it is to uninstall the program? If so, will I look most of my timelines and etc or not? because I do have all the stuff backed onto an external HDD. So If I do have to reinstall, I can just reinstall and pick back up from where i started?

Edit: I put in the Tiger CD and it pops up but I dont see utilites under it. I see it under Xcode Tools folder but I dont think thats the right one hehe cause it tells me to uninstall dev tools so not sure how to go about that.
 
illegalprelude said:
yea, I have the OX box right next to me. So if I put in the disk and tell it to launch Disk Utility and give that a whirl?

Also, presuming none of this works, is the best way to do it is to uninstall the program? If so, will I look most of my timelines and etc or not? because I do have all the stuff backed onto an external HDD. So If I do have to reinstall, I can just reinstall and pick back up from where i started?

Edit: I put in the Tiger CD and it pops up but I dont see utilites under it. I see it under Xcode Tools folder but I dont think thats the right one hehe cause it tells me to uninstall dev tools so not sure how to go about that.
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You'll have to boot off the CD. So either go into System Preferences and change the Start Up Disk to the CD or restart yer Mac w/the CD in the drive and hold down the "C" key (maybe, I'm not sure) and that will force the Mac to boot off the CD.

As far as timelines and what not, just don't delete the project file and you won't have to worry about any of that stuff.


Lethal
 
What RAM do you have in there, exactly? Make and model?

FCP is the most brutal program on RAM there is. Marginal RAM that the OS passes as OK, can make FCP crash and burn. Pull the RAM so that there is only the Apple original (not to say that it couldn't be defective too but you have to start somewhere) It'll run like a pig, but does it successfully load? Add your additional RAM. What happens now?
 
Have you checked your QT and MPEG2 installations? This was a problem for some installing FCP4+ which required deleting the MPEG2 components. MPEG2 Troubleshoot I had to fix it when upgrading to FCP HD
 
Sirus The Virus said:
So you got it illegally? You may want to rethink your sig, it's a little much.
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No, I just recently moved to LA from michigan and dont have all my belongings yet. Also, my sig. is within the 6 line guidline thank you.

CanadaRAM said:
What RAM do you have in there, exactly? Make and model?

FCP is the most brutal program on RAM there is. Marginal RAM that the OS passes as OK, can make FCP crash and burn. Pull the RAM so that there is only the Apple original (not to say that it couldn't be defective too but you have to start somewhere) It'll run like a pig, but does it successfully load? Add your additional RAM. What happens now?
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The ram I have is what apple gave me. when I ordered my unit, i told them to put a gig into it so its stock ram.

xsedrinam said:
Have you checked your QT and MPEG2 installations? This was a problem for some installing FCP4+ which required deleting the MPEG2 components. MPEG2 Troubleshoot I had to fix it when upgrading to FCP HD
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ill give that a shot. I just cant understand why it would suddenly stop working. thanks for the link though, ill be sure to give that a whirl
 
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