Q: The Final Cut Pro X CRASH Thread

While I'm waiting for rendeer to complete after trashing, handling permissions, rebooting... I'll answer your questions I missed earlier.

Imported interview media is 1080i Sony HDV, various jpeg stills and off-air news recordings, a variety of formats. Interview media and other footage is imported as proxy, jpegs copied to event folder. All that's transcoded, right?

The edit seems to lose rendering in some sections with live action, stills in chroma-key sometimes, and other times where I have credit rolls over stills.

You're not exporting the procy project, are you? Don't. Change to original/optimzied before exporting.

Was this material optimized on import or is it still a stew of mixed formats?

Sorry, crashes on Export Media from Project Library. No error report. App just closes.

Was everything rendered before you exported? Just curious.

I'm exporting using originl/optimized setting in preferences. Some of the material may not have been optimized on import. I was under the impression it wold be optimized in the edit.

Yes, everything rendered.

If it will go to Blu-Ray, and DVD, which it seems to be willing to do, why won't it work with the other share options?

It's only optimized if you optimize on import or transcode after you import. Otherwise the media is whatever QuickTime variation you imported.

OK. How do I do that? Do I ahve to reimport those elements that continually need to be rerendered, or is there a setting I can use to transcode in the event browswer or the edit itself?

I see how to do it now. Thanks so much. You're a godsend!

Tom, spent about 15 hours optimizing every edit and I have a section with about five stills in chromakey over live action over a background for which the optimize will not hold after restart. Trash pres, etc., Optimize again, try to export movie, crashes just like before. I may move the project to a different drive, I seem to be getting some minor improvements using Tech Tool volume rebuild, but not enough to save the transcodes and get the movie exported. Or, I may consolidate the project. Or, I may just end up using an earlier export. Too bad! I just can't seem to fix this thing up enough to get it out. I'll hold for another day and maybe the 14th I'll have better luck!

I trashed and reinstalled FCP X, Compressor and Motion and seems to be exporting fine now. Holding rendering, seems OK. Hopefully I'll be wrapping up ths journey to ****. Thanks to everyone for listening.

It looks like certain projects / events are causing my Final Cut Pro X configuration to crash upon start-up.  Last week I was working on a project and after successfully completing it and rendering the video, everything seemed to be fine.  However, when I started FCP the next day, it crashed on start-up everytime.  I rebooted my Mac and the same problem occurred.  I went ahead and moved the Projects and Events folder to a temp folder and FCP started up with no issues.  Albeit with no projects or events.  I added in some of my core event files that I re-use for projects and FCP continued to work fine.  I then started a new project and after completing it, FCP started crashing on start-up again!  Moving the project file fixes the problem.

It appears the FCP is very finicky about certain content in event and projects and the result is that it will crash upon start-up.  I need this resolved ASAP or I may be looking towards another solution such as Avid Media Composer or Adobe Premiere Pro.  I love tne new FCP X, but I just can't work with the crashing.

Tom Wolsky is right. Transcode everything on import. But it seems I had one pro res composite file I that was edited in FCS III and it seems to have been the endles rendering culprit--but all specs were the same, so why, MISTER APPLE?? Moreover, later when I consolidated media, FCS X ate one of my sustaining audio tracks with loads of cut narration. The track simply evaporated!

@superluminal, I do have FCP configured to transcode on import.  At least I have "Create optimized media" selected.  I don't create proxy media, but I can try that.