Project won't load! Spinning beach ball at opening screen.

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Project won't load! Spinning beach ball at opening screen.

So my project is multi-camera, has all externally synced audio, and about 45 min of footage in current timeline. When I created the project, and edited the elements within, all worked fine. But now when I try to reopen the project, I get the spinning beach ball hanging at the opening screen for hours. It just shows "loading project into timeline" forever. It just doesn't want to open. Anyone run into these problems before??

Specs: 2010 mbp, 2.53 ghz i5, 8GB ram, 500GB. OSX 10.8.4

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Jul 7, 2013 11:31 AM

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Answer 1

judysings

Community Specialist

Jul 9, 2013 9:09 AM in response to Chris Lee 310

Hi Chris Lee 310,

I'm sorry to hear you are having issues with your Final Cut project.

The article below may be able to help you with this issue.

Click on the link below to see more details and screenshots.

I've quoted some helpful highlights for you:

Final Cut Pro X: Troubleshooting basics

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3893

7. Hide Events and Projects

You can isolate issues with events and projects by hiding your events and projects and then un-hiding a project or event. Do this one at a time until you are able to reproduce the issue and identify an affected event or project. For detailed information on hiding events and projects see

Final Cut Pro X: Hiding events and projects

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4740

I hope this information helps ....

Have a great day!

- Judy

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Answer 2

Jul 9, 2013 10:13 AM in response to judysings

Unfortunately, I already do all those things, such as mounting/unmounting projects and events. Part of my workflow is to do exactly that. I just trashed preferences, and uninstalled/reinstalled fcpx. It finally opened after hours, but it still isn't condusive to a good work flow. I had to manually break apart the master timeline into smaller sequences, which is a good work around for now.....But I'm concerned about when it comes time to assemble the final timeline......

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Answer 3

Jul 9, 2013 10:26 AM in response to Chris Lee 310

A few things occur to me that may have contributed to your problem.

It is possible that the project has become corrupt. In that case, a possible solution is to copy and paste into a new project. One working in long and complex projects should probably be well served by investing in Pro Maintenance.

One other thing is that, due to the length and complexity of the project, you may be running low on RAM - 8GB is ok for small projects, but maybe not good enough for a very long, effect-laden project. Always keep an eye on Activity Monitor. When things slow down considerably, low free RAM is often related to the problem.

Also, you didn't mention which drive you are using. An external, preferrably FW800 (for lack of a better option in a 2010 MBP which does not have TB nor USB3). If it is a 17", another option (my personal choice, since I have such a machine) is e-SATA via an expresscard (sadly, not available in the 15").

Message was edited by: Luis Sequeira1 to add the paragraph about hard drives

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