tillkrueger
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Q: i did a stupid thing! can anyone help me recover from installing a cracked Pixel Film Studio plugin?

i did a horribly stupid thing: in the middle of editing a very high pressure client project, i gave in to my dark side and installed a cracked Pixel Film Studio plugin, which is now crashing FCPX (10.2.1) on start...not that i deserve anyone's help, but can anyone help me recover from installing this cracked plugin?

 

i've been a registered user of Final Cut since the original Final Cut Studio and have "upgraded" to FCPX a few years ago when it came out, but what i did today is really inexcusable, especially in the middle of a project and on my production machine!

 

i did quite a few hours of searching online, found some weird application that claims to remove Pixel Film Studio software from your Mac (kinda fishy), deleted the plugin from the Motion Templates folder in the "Movies" folder, trashed the Final Cut Pro preferences, but nothing seems to help...i desperately need help finding a way to restore FCPX back to working order (preferably without losing all my custom commands and presets)...would anyone be so kind as to help me?

 

i was going to post my crash report from FCPX but it is so long that i don't know whether etiquette permits pasting it here...so here is a link to it on my Dropbox:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pijbt0k25hx3pmd/FCPX_Crash_2015-05-20.txt?dl=0

 

Help me, please!

Posted on May 20, 2015 11:53 AM

by tillkrueger,Solvedanswer
tillkrueger tillkrueger
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A:

not sure what happened there, but i got it working again...here is how:

 

> started FCPX with Option key held down and created new Library called "Test"...FCPX launched without crashing

> quit FCPX and started it again, this time also without problem

> opened my current project's Library (the one with which it was crashing on launch), and FCPX kept running fine

> closed and re-opened FCPX, again without a glitch

> slapped myself for being so stupid and continued editing

 

lessen learned: don't do crack(s)!

Posted on May 20, 2015 1:01 PM

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  • by tillkrueger,Solvedanswer

    tillkrueger tillkrueger May 20, 2015 1:01 PM in response to tillkrueger
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    May 20, 2015 1:01 PM in response to tillkrueger

    not sure what happened there, but i got it working again...here is how:

     

    > started FCPX with Option key held down and created new Library called "Test"...FCPX launched without crashing

    > quit FCPX and started it again, this time also without problem

    > opened my current project's Library (the one with which it was crashing on launch), and FCPX kept running fine

    > closed and re-opened FCPX, again without a glitch

    > slapped myself for being so stupid and continued editing

     

    lessen learned: don't do crack(s)!

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    brenowden brenowden May 22, 2016 9:04 PM in response to tillkrueger
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    May 22, 2016 9:04 PM in response to tillkrueger

    So I installed some Pixel film plug ins and they all worked great.  Then somewhere in the middle of my project every time I try to use one I get the spinning ball and it takes for ever to process request.  I had been using quiet a few of them in this project with no issues, and then things just changed.  I tried to research the products and I didn't see any issues people were having, so was it a mistake to download them?  Do I need to delete them and if so, how do I do that?  I'm not by any means overly amble with FCX, but I'm not completely unfamiliar with it.  Also my project are nothing more than fancy slide shows, so there is not a lot of content and complexity to my projects.  Thanks for any insight.