Final Cut Pro crashed, and now immediately crashing upon launch EVERY TIME

I was editing a 4k timeline with some heavy colour grading and the app crashed. Now upon launch it crashes WITHOUT FAIL. I have 19 days left of the trial, and when I press okay, that’s when it crashes. It merely says ‘Final cut pro trial quit unexpectedly’. I can’t get on. I have restarted my laptop, changed apple id’s, and deleted and reinstalled the app multiple times, deleting everything in the process (I presume). I need to get this footage edited asap and this is a major problem. Any suggestions??


I have MacBook Air M1 16gb ram.

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Posted on Apr 20, 2024 1:45 PM

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Posted on Apr 20, 2024 2:22 PM

Whenever the application crashes you should trash the settings. Hold ⌥ ⌘ as you double click the library you want to open to launch the application. A dialog appears asking you if you want to Delete Preferences. If you don't do this while double-clicking your library, just opening the application, it will open a default Untitled  library.  

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Apr 20, 2024 2:22 PM in response to Zacataca

Whenever the application crashes you should trash the settings. Hold ⌥ ⌘ as you double click the library you want to open to launch the application. A dialog appears asking you if you want to Delete Preferences. If you don't do this while double-clicking your library, just opening the application, it will open a default Untitled  library.  

Apr 25, 2024 7:52 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

I don't understand what you mean about two system volumes? I only have one installed and it's fully updated (as far as I am aware). I went through the Chroma and daemons as part of a call with Apple Support, and it didn't fix anything.


We were unable to get it to work on this profile login, but I made a new user profile and it worked on that. Odd. Apple said they haven't seen this before.

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