Final Cut Pro X Crashing

If you have a Time Machine backup or an installer from and older system it can be done. Make sure you have all your current files backed up. If possible use a clone like Carbon Copy Cloner. You can then rebuild the OS and migrate your documents from the clone.

I don’t see any obvious red flags in the report.

Two things you can try:

a) run Etrecheck with Full Disk Access and also select to show what the unsigned files are, and post the new report.

b) try FCP X from a new admin account and see if it also crashes.

This will tell us if the problem is specific to your account (which at this point seems likely).

I understood from Tom Wolsky that you also using the OWC soft raid, I tried starting a new project on a different drive (G-tech Raid 5) and since then FCP works great not a single problem, I know its only about 2 hours but when I worked on that OWC drive it would happen sometimes after 5 minutes.

I really think the problem has something to do with the new os and the Softraid which I anyway really dont like.

Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here. Use the "additional text" button and paste the report into the text box.

Test the application in a new admin user.

Also, what version of the software are you using?

Then you'll have to do a full diagnosis of your system. It's suggest looking at an EtreCheck report that has all disk access and see what it might suggest.

One thing is Chrome. Shut it down and don’t use it while running pro apps. It consumes all use of the video toolbox and makes it difficult for other applications to function properly.

By me the problem was the SoftRaid Software for the Thunderbay 6, I bought the Promise Pegasus32 and everything works great no issues at all!

After you force quit the application, can you hold Opt-Cmd while the application launches or tries to launch?

This is version 10.4.8?

The system shouldn’t freeze because an application doesn’t launch.

Switch off auto update in both System Preferences and the App Store.

I see no obvious bad actors in the report. Did the problems start after updating to 10.15.4 or were they occurring before?

If you have a spare drive, you could try doing a clean install of just Catalina and FCP X and see if that works.

Hey guys,

Having the same problem, with both FCPX and iMovie. Installed, reinstalled, used external drives, internal one, NAS — same behaviour.

The thing is that last week I've edited a bunch of videos and FCPX worked flawlessly, so it must be something quite recent.

I've read on other forums that Adobe Premiere also started crashing, so this might be related to the OpenGL support in Catalina being faded out.

The thing is that literally thousands of editors rely on FCPX to do their work, especially in these troubled times — and if this issue is not fixed in a timely manner, many will be forced to switch to Windows (those who are Adobe users mainly).

Can anyone else confirm that both iMovie and Premiere behave the same way?

The report says your system was updated to 10.15.4 on March 26, and your first post was on March 27...