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Final Cut Pro X saves projects unreliable

I have no idea, if and when FCP X does actually save projects. When I quit it, I loose at least the last 10-15 steps, when it crashes sometimes even more work.


How can I be sure, that FCP X DOES save my work when exiting the app?

Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.6.8), MacPro QuadCore

Posted on Jul 3, 2011 6:33 AM

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Posted on Jul 3, 2011 10:19 AM

You're the first. I and many other editors here locally don't lose anything at all. When it crashes, if we do a Force Quit, and when we quit properly, not a single thing is lost. Are you sure you're losing that much? I've not seen a system yet doing that. FCP X uses Lion's new permanent save state, it's saved every move you make, not at timed interverls.

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Sep 19, 2011 5:01 PM in response to KOENIG Yvan

KOENIG Yvan wrote:


Before posting for the first time in an Apple Discussions forum we are supposed to read the Terms of Use which explain, among other things, that these forums are users to users one.

They claim also that sometimes an engineer may post a message but it's very rare.

In the iWork dedicated forums, as far as I remember there never was an Apple's engineer message.

Forget about policing this forum, it's not going to happen.


There are people rightfully upset with FCPX, since Apple chooses not to communicate with it's customers..... right or wrong, people are going to post what they want... regardless of rules.


It's happened in this forum and others are well, go over to pro_audio, they give people a lot of leeway over there.....

Nov 7, 2011 9:34 AM in response to BenB

I'm only part way through reading all the post about NOT Saving. I'm using an iMac 2011 16GB Ram. When working in FCPX I've added some titles "KeyNote effect", wait for everything to render, it looks great and when I properly quit and shut down the Keynote effect changes are no longer there. I've also lost some graphics I've inserted?

Need a solution ASAP, my hours of work are being lost.

Thanks in Advance

Nov 7, 2011 9:41 AM in response to KOENIG Yvan

Can you help me out here please. I'm just reading a bunch of angry post and I only want to know if there is a solution.

I'm using an iMac 2011 16GB Ram. When working in FCPX I've added some titles "KeyNote effect", wait for everything to render, it looks great and when I properly quit, shut down and turn on my machine the next day the Keynote effect changes are no longer there. I've also lost some graphics I've inserted?

Need a solution ASAP, my hours of work are being lost. Any help or direction for a solution is appreciated.

Thanks in Advance

Nov 7, 2011 9:42 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Hi.

Can you help me out here please. I'm just reading a bunch of angry post and I only want to know if there is a solution.

I'm using an iMac 2011 16GB Ram. When working in FCPX I've added some titles "KeyNote effect", wait for everything to render, it looks great and when I properly quit, shut down and turn on my machine the next day the Keynote effect changes are no longer there. I've also lost some graphics I've inserted?

Need a solution ASAP, my hours of work are being lost. Any help or direction for a solution is appreciated.

Thanks in Advance

Nov 7, 2011 9:43 AM in response to ProfLuna

Still an error in 10.0.1


It seems to me that this only occurs when I am changing details in the information box or using the transform tool. I found this out after losing half a days' work. Now if I do anything like grading or resizing, I check the undo to see if its greyed out or not. A total ballache that makes it impossible to use this professionally still.

Nov 13, 2011 12:30 PM in response to stephanos

I just opened a project that I spent all day yesteday on. Seems to have lost all the changes I made, captaions, and photos stacked on top of each others backgrounds etc.

I actually left my mac on for several hourse after I had finished, to be sure it was all there.

I'm extremly disappointed. Have been using this program for awhile, and have had problems, but this is just too much.

Nov 13, 2011 1:27 PM in response to FriisKiwi

Many of us have posted that FCPX is "Not Ready" for prime time.


I work (audio tracks) with two PBS video editors that have to produce output on a daily basis, they used FCPX on one of their Mac pros for a week before they finally gave up. On the plus side, they saw some positives but didn't think it would be stable enough for another year or more. There's too many problems, the autosave's erratic behavior is only one of many. Don't give Apple a break... complain through Feedback, you shouldn't have to pay to be a beta tester. Keep reporting the problems you are having.

Nov 14, 2011 6:56 PM in response to Pancenter

I did phone Apple, who told me to go to the library and removed the plist for FinalCut Pro X, that seems to have helped, but I'm not taking any chances, I now when I have done a bit of work,makes sure it has been rendered, close the program and open it up again. This wa I will at least not loose an enourmous amount.

I do find it very slow and I have 16GB of ram.

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