FCP 10.0.1 update now crashes every time I launch it!

I guess you have tried the usual such as delete the preference file, make another user on your computer.

This program will help you reset your FCP X preferences- http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/ Please let us know if it works.

Even thoug many ignore it: Apple STRONGLY recomend that FCP and FCPX are not installed on the same partition. There could be a conflict.

innocentius wrote:

Even thoug many ignore it: Apple STRONGLY recomend that FCP and FCPX are not installed on the same partition. There could be a conflict.

But yet Apple says the demo can be installed on an FCP partition, it's a fully funtional demo, correct?

pancenter-

Then this recomendation from Apple is not relevant anymore. But they have not removed it from their website. I followed their advice from the beginning and have no problems at all. But reports about crashes are endless and it seems that there is no definitive solution.

Problem solved. Go for Avid, but I am surprised if you are professional that you bought FCPX and why not continue to use FCP it is fully functional.

I don't know who these friends are, but they're certainly misinformed and they don't appear to be doing you any favours.

There are a great number of professional editors who have used Final Cut Pro since version 4 - but took the trouble to

a. Find out the system and install requirements for FCP X

b. Watch professional tutorials such as Ripple Training and actually LEARN how to use this ground breaking new application.

They (and I) are having very few issues with FCP X - especially since the update.

If you're getting crashes, autosave problems etc, there is more than likely some conflict on your system drive.

Create a new (admin) user on your Mac system and try FCP X from there.

I did this, and FCP X worked perfectly on the new account, meaning there was definitely a conflict on my existing system.

To be absolutely certain my MacPro's system was squeaky clean, I then did a clean reinstall (not TimeMachine) and FCP X has worked reliably ever since.

FCP X application should be in your Applications folder and ideally, your project and events should all be on an external HD and not on your Mac system drive.

I have around 4000 clips distributed between six events at the moment and FCP X is coping very well most of the time.

It helps to work without the waveforms displayed as these slow things down considerably.

Do you have FC Studio or a version of FCP on the same drive partition as FCP X?

This is what Apple say on their current web page on installation practice:

"It is strongly recommended that you install Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, and Compressor 4 on a startup disk that does not have Final Cut Studio (2009) already installed. Use Apple's preferred installation procedure when upgrading one version of Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Studio to the next. This procedure is not unique to Final Cut Pro X."

They do go on to say "if you must" have the two on the same partition, FCS must be located in a different folder - but I would have thought the words "strongly recommended" and "if you must" speak for themselves.

Andy

I just helped another member of this forum and he did all the little things with trashing prefs and whatnot but what helped him was to delete FCPX and redownload it. The app store is having some problems with corrupt updates to FCPX. That should take care of the problem.