Final Cut Pro STUCK VALIDATING AUDIO UNITS

I recently updated my iMac to the latest Ventura 13 update and Final Cut Pro to Version 10.6.5.

I am unable to open the app as it remains stuck validating Audio Units. I have been unable to open the windows and cannot even use the tabs on my app to open preferences or windows.


Here's a non-working "Delete Preferences" solution posted last year:

Final Cut Pro STUCK VALIDATING AUDIO UNITS - Apple Community


It should be said: instead of recommending that your users remove all their Audio Units from their folder, and then moving them back into their folder, one at a time until you find the "bad one", the Final Cut Pro team might consider implementing what Logic Pro does: Logic Pro has a plugin validator that catches all the plugins it can't use before it boots up. The Logic Pro folks learned that this is a good idea because most media professionals have upwards of 300 Audio Units! LOL.

So...there's no way I'm gonna sit here and move each one of those back into their folder, watch Final Cut Pro freeze, then move the Audio Unit back out and try the next 299 of them :)


Make an Audio Unit Validator that simply turns off the ones Final Cut Pro finds a problem with.

Then hopefully the app updates itself in the middle of the night and we're all surprised that it works again, which is the opposite of what happened last night.

Thanks a bunch, they's.

Posted on Apr 19, 2023 4:20 PM

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Posted on May 12, 2023 4:28 AM

Happy to report this worked like a charm:

  • moved all my AudioUnits from /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components to AudioUser/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components (AudioUser being the user I'm using for Audio)
  • created another user (VideoUser) for using FCPro
  • switching to VideoUser: I can use FCPro, no AudioUnit, no problem
  • switching to AudioUser: I can use LogicPro with all my AudioUnits

Took less than 2 minutes.

Far easier than creating another boot volume with another version of MacOS, right?

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