The Final Cut Pro X CRASH Thread

I was being a bit of a dummy and it took me a while to realize... Just in case there are a few others like me having similar issue i'll post what was happening.

i was having continuous crashes maybe 15 a day. through crash analysis i realized %90 of my crashes were audio related. I did all the recommended procedures, dumping prefs etc all of which helped me open fcp when it would crash on start up etc, but it was still crashing the same as before. then as i was looking at my (50min) project and i realized that the audio had been messed/moved around, some sort of bug thing. some was in the storyline, some above and some that i could do nothing with but delete. anyway it had happened on many of my projects and i just assumed fcpx didn't care where the audio was and was treating all clips the same. but i moved all the sound below the storyline and deleted any stuck clips and i have not had more than 3 crashes in 4 days...

hope this might help someone as i nearly lost my mind being 4 weeks into an edit and no places to turn... no project history!!

Anyone heard any rumors when/if an update will be released?

I've been working on a project for about a month and a half now. My events and projects are all saved on an external HD connected through my USB. I have had multiple crashes whilst working on this main project but they havent done any real damage just cause an inconvenience. Except for today whilst working on a project my USB came loose and I got a warning to quit final cut pro to make sure I don't lose any data. I clicked quit, re-opened my FCPX and my main project was missing... I located the project file on my HD and it tells me that the file can not be opened as it may be corrupt/truncated... All my other events and projects still work fine just this one I've been working on... and there are no other previous 'versions' I can go back to, just the one corrupt project file... Can anybody please help, is there a way I can get my hard work back? 😟

One time I had a USB drive come out without ejecting and the whole thing was corrupt. I hate the fact that you have to eject drives before unplugging cables. It's enough to make sure my Time Machine drive is always off unless I'm purposefully backing it up.

Sorry to hear about your loss, I don't know if it is possible to uncorrupt a file.

> FCP X also unstable when "browsing" effects. This results in blue screens.

This was very similar to my problem crashes. I fixed it by doing a completely clean reinstall of my operating system and software. See my previous post for details. Could work for you as well.

See #9 in the bug list for more details on the blue effects / generators issue:

http://www.digitalrebellion.com/blog/posts/final_cut_pro_x_bug_list.html

Here's my latest crash thread. Came from a SD project, with only 3 short clips.

Thread 59 Crashed:: com.apple.flexo.worker-thread

0 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff8b68dd8b memmove$VARIANT$sse42 + 206

1 com.apple.Flexo 0x00000001008dacbe DVAudioCursor_CreateSampleBuffer + 1406

2 com.apple.MediaToolbox.ProAppsSupport 0x0000000101e88bbc FigSampleGeneratorCreateForFormatReaderWithScheduledIO + 10581

3 com.apple.Audio.provider 0x00000001064f6974 0x1064ee000 + 35188

4 com.apple.Audio.provider 0x00000001064f7854 0x1064ee000 + 38996

5 com.apple.Audio.provider 0x00000001064efd9e 0x1064ee000 + 7582

6 com.apple.Flexo 0x00000001008d5b7f -[FFAnchoredComponentAudioStream prerollBegin:prerollDuration:maxDuration:rate:sync:] + 383

7 com.apple.Flexo 0x0000000100b4540d AudioDynamicScopingWindow::CreateAndPrerollStreamScopes(long long, long long, long long, long long, FFPrerollSync*) + 653

8 com.apple.Flexo 0x0000000100b45e91 AudioDynamicScopingWindow::BeginPreroll(long long, long long, long long, double, FFPrerollSync*) + 289

9 com.apple.Flexo 0x0000000100b4ae8d -[FFAnchoredSequenceAudioStream prerollBegin:prerollDuration:maxDuration:rate:sync:] + 1277

10 com.apple.Flexo 0x0000000100b4611c AudioDynamicScopingWindow::BeginPreroll(long long, long long, long long, double, FFPrerollSync*) + 940

11 com.apple.Flexo 0x0000000100b4ae8d -[FFAnchoredSequenceAudioStream prerollBegin:prerollDuration:maxDuration:rate:sync:] + 1277

12 com.apple.Flexo 0x0000000100b4540d AudioDynamicScopingWindow::CreateAndPrerollStreamScopes(long long, long long, long long, long long, FFPrerollSync*) + 653

13 com.apple.Flexo 0x0000000100b45e91 AudioDynamicScopingWindow::BeginPreroll(long long, long long, long long, double, FFPrerollSync*) + 289

14 com.apple.Flexo 0x0000000100b4ae8d -[FFAnchoredSequenceAudioStream prerollBegin:prerollDuration:maxDuration:rate:sync:] + 1277

15 com.apple.Flexo 0x000000010082f98a -[FFStreamAudio render:withFormat:forTime:andFrames:channels:] + 1866

16 com.apple.Flexo 0x000000010082f1d2 -[FFStreamAudio render:forTime:andFrames:] + 162

17 com.apple.Flexo 0x00000001008d04a8 FFAudioPlaybackSkipStyleBuffer::addBufferSlice(unsigned long long, long long, FFAudioPlayback::PlaybackDirection) + 1592

18 com.apple.Flexo 0x00000001008cc52a WorkerThread::Run() + 106

19 com.apple.Flexo 0x000000010086665a Thread::RunHelper(void*) + 42

20 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff8b6b48bf _pthread_start + 335

21 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff8b6b7b75 thread_start + 13

Jon Chappell wrote:

See #9 in the bug list for more details on the blue effects / generators issue:

http://www.digitalrebellion.com/blog/posts/final_cut_pro_x_bug_list.html

Sure wish I knew about this before I reinstalled my entire computer. I guess my Google skills leave much to be desired.

Andy

My FCPX crashes around 2-4 times an hour on an Apple Mac Pro 12-core 2,66 GHz with 32 GB RAM... that's more than annoying!

My FCPX crashes constantly when working with music from iTunes library... if I make changes to the track and want to replay it, bumm... If i on the other hand import the track to my event folder it accurs less, still unstable but better.

How can two apps by the same creator have such a bad integration.....

Apple... come on.. give us an update!

Seems to be there is an workaround for this 'text effect'- or 'lower third edit'- bug. Use fontbook to disable all 'User'-fonts but keep all 'Computer'-fonts alive.

Lateron you can evaluate the 'User'-fonts one by one ... if you like ... I mean if you have time ... and nothing else to do to fix Apples programs ...

I have a three month old Imac 27 bought to edit dslr video for youtube to promote my business. I upgraded from imovie to FCPX. I am running Lion. My crashes come mostly when adding voice overs. I can maybe record/add three short audio clips before I get the beachball and it freezes. I then have to force a quit and will loose the last clip recorded. This is a pain and very slow, and of course I have had other crashes. I can create the movies I need quickly and without problem on my macbook pro in imovie. I was in search of better colour correction and more flexibility than I was getting in imovie hence the investment in the imac and FCPX. This has been a complete waste of time and money.

With those movies which do not need voice over and do not crash I still have problems with audio in FCPX. I can have a pefectly good movie that when I export it produces very poor quality sound with crackles and pops. This is particularly noticeable with high pitched music such as flute music. The same clips and audio edited in imovie are perfect.

And final gripe is that the quality of my voice recordings are not a patch on those used with the same microphone on the same computer with garage band or other audi software such as Ableton Live.

What would be great would be if apple published a little more information on when updates/fixes are coming and maybe some advice on working round known issues. Meantime I will look in here to see what advice I can pick up.

man, i feel ur pain on that one. i've used imovie a ton to promote business (the trailers templates are great for that) and when i needed to fix the footage i am lucky enough to have FCS3, with some great plugs. I tried for two weeks to do the same with FCPX and finally gave up (lack of understanding and crashes did me in).

What would be great would be if apple published a little more information on when updates/fixes are coming and maybe some advice on working round known issues.

I don't think they will ever publish the above, as they never have to date. All the help you will get is here and at creativecow.net, and perhaps other like sites. Well, best of luck!

Hi everybody..

I had a bad bad case of crash on launch. The last thing i did was to add some text generatior at the end of my project and bummm.. every time i tried to relaunch it crashed.

The only thing that helped was to trash the whole render folder.

I've suddenly begun getting a lot of crashes, but then I turned off all my filters, including Red Giant Mojo, and the crashes have stopped, at least so far.

I bought FCP X first day it came out. Since then, it crashed at least 80 times. A few times I lost projects without recovery - days of work (paid work) just went poof. I do have FCP 7, but main reason why I bought FCP X is because I didn't have to transcode DSLR footage to edit it. I have daily backups using ChronoSync, but loosing a day of work is still a big price to pay for me. I don't use Time Machine because it *****. I used it for about half a year, but it wasn't stable, and it "locked up" on me a few times. I've spent time talking to Apple about FCP X crashing, tryied deleting .plist files and deleting/reinstalling FCP X - no luck and no solution yet - it keeps crashing. By talking to Apple, it felt like they had no idea why it was crashing and they didn't give me promises or even hope that they will fix it soon. Not good.

I bought FCP 6 for $1,800 - I loved it. I bought FCP 7 for $1,300 - I loved it. I bought FCP X for $300 - I hate it. Windows Vista is more stable than FCP X. Maybe you do get what you pay for. I would easily pay $1,500 for FCP 8 (which would be 64bit, native DSLR support and auto-render).

It is the saddast day for me today, because I'm pressured by these circustances and my clients to switching to Premiere Pro CS5. I downloaded trial version couple days ago and realized that it pretty much is FCP 8, except auto-render, but I can live with that.

No, I am not Adboe representative, and no, I am not endorsing Premiere, I am yet to find out how it performs. I've spent a few thousand dollars from my personal wallet buying Apple products and probably $30,000 buying apple products for my business. But I'm afraid that my Apple-Fan-Boy days are over.