Soundtrack Pro cannot be opened

Try digitalrebellion.com's FCS Maintenance pack to trash the STP preferences. If that doesn't work. Use it to selectively remove STP and reinstall it. Note, you don't have to pull off the audio samples. that's where the time is in installation. See if those things work.

I'm having exactly the same problem. I heard that this could be a compatability issue with iLife '11? - Surely Apple wouldn't make such a schoolboy error - would they?

I am having this problem as well. The system is a brand new iMac, and I mean brand new, with just the latest OS and the bundled iLife '11 installed. I literally brought my new computer home, set it up, installed Logic Studio 9, and immediately Soundtrack Pro fails to start every time with this same error message. It is very disappointing, especially since there seems to have been no indication from Apple that they are working on the problem.

Has anyone pulled off iLife 11 and reinstalled the logic package?

I have 10.6.6 on one machine with no issue, but no logic or iLife 11. Another machine i just upped to 10.6.6, and haven't tested. It has logic but no ILife at all. The other machines still have 10.6.5.
Our STP is installed as part of FCSVand not from the Logic package.

Try removing iLife and the reinstalling STP

Okay, I just tried the one machine that has 10.6.6 installed. (I did it remotely using Logmein on the iPhone, by the way.) Soundtrack pro opens just fine. Note that iLife 11 is not installed on this machine, though logic is.

Well, actually it can be a coincidence. We're not even sure that the issues the way they are described are identical. Note the thousands and thousands of users having two or three pop-up with an issue does not necessarily indicate a major problem. So right now it's all conjecture. What we want to do is arrive at a solution the matter what that is. That's what's really important here.

These sorts of things are always caused by some sort of a change. The way we traced the problem is by backtracking and removing or changing back anything that's been changed recently. That's the only way that we can arrive at some sort of resolution. Uninstalling and reinstalling software in this environment is very easy. Especially if one uses applications like digitalrebellion.com's Final Cut Studio maintenance pack, or more general application like CleanApp. reinstalling soundtrack Pro is actually quick and easy if one leaves the sound samples alone.

If you right click on the Install Logic Studio shortcut and choose "Show Original", it should show you the hidden installer folder. Inside the Packages folder you should find "PSTSharedA.pkg" and "ProAppsMetadataSupport.pkg". Try installing both of these package installers and see if that fixes it. This is what worked for me.

Good Luck!

Scooter, you are at least 2 for 2! Your suggestion fixed the problem on my new iMac as well. Thank you!

hi,
same problem, which i was aware of before installing Logic Studio. (iLife11 was blamed)
soo, i wiped the boot that came with my new MacPro 8core, and re-installed just 10.6.5.
no soap. STP and Compressor are greyed out.
the only thing that could have the AIC in it, is QT10.
i believe QT10 cannot be bypassed of install of the OS.
i tried the "terminal" command line but it doesn't work either.
truly, i believe it must be a QT conflict.
please Mr Apple, would you mind fixing this, as i paid out for something that's unusable.
thank you,
j.