Final Cut Pro 10.1 crashed and my project is gone.

I have been crashing alot as well, however your work is not lost. Under File, open library and you will find the project you were working on, pretty much the way it was when Final Cut crashed. Hope Apple fixes the crash problem soon. i have been working on a project and crashes about every 20 minutes, but project stays intact.

Hope this helps. Funny that Final cut does not reopen to last library used.

same here second time this happened, final cut pro crashes after 3 hours and when restarting project is empty this is ridicoulos.

Managed to restore it from back up as mentioned above but this is not how a PRO APP should behave in my opinion.

Why would it automaticaly reload from the last saved point instead of showing me a empty project?

It shouldn't be crashing, but if it does – depending on what's being worked on at the time – files can be corrupted. In that case, it may be necessary to open a backup.

As for those crashes, try trashing preferences with this app.

What kind of media are you working with and what are your system specs?

Russ

I've been crashing alot too - I just crashed and when I when back in FCP was stuck at "Restoring Window Layouts". After several retries of that I found in the applu documentation that I had to find the layouts folder and trash it - FCP cmae back after that but now the proecjt I was working on for days is gone - specifically all my media is unlinked --- the red screen with the yellow triangles --- I tried all the suggests above and I cannot find my footage.

I've restored libraries from backups and search my Mac for files but they seemed to have just disappeared.

I just lost 30+ hours on this project. DOes anyone have ANY suggestions?

-rich

Does anyone know where FCP hides it's clips? I've been trying to find them everywhere on my Mac and I can't ....

-rich

PS: I'm about 2 seconds from chucking FCP and gping back to Premiere

Rabassa wrote:

Does anyone know where FCP hides it's clips?

Actually, the media should still be in a location that you specified. If you originally imported directly from the camera into FCPX, it will be in an event. If you originally copied your media to your Mac, it will be at that location unless you moved it; it may also live in your event – depending on whether you chose to copy the media to your event.

If you select a clip that has a missing clip warning in the browser and then File>Relink Files, it will give you a dialog so you can navigate to that location.

BTW, what version of FCPX are you using and caused you go from Premiere to Final Cut in the first place?

Russ

I caputured from Camera.

WHen I select my missing footage and relink it, it asks where for the location but that's just it, I don;t know where that is...

-r

Hey,

10.1 is differnet, a couple of important things to realize. It stores media and project differently than earleir versions. Media and projects are stored in a library. They may or may not be disp[layed when you open FCP First,under file tab, click "open library". If the library you were working on is not shown, click "other". Hopefully a window with the library you were working on is listed. If library was on external drive make sure it is active. In finder you can look find the library by the purple 4 block icon with stars. Right click the file and select open package. you will find folder with original media. Don't alter any files in that package, but you can copy media files out without problem. Google or search you tube for some good tutorials on FCP 10.1 librarys, there are some great benifts to this new feature, I had trouble understaning at first, but once you work with it for a while its great.

Hey Biglug57,

THanks - this was a helpful direction however when I went into the package for my stuff, the Original Media folder was empty. I checked seveeral of the events files going back several hours to several days and all of their original media folders are empty...

ANy other ideas?

-rich

rich,

sorry, only thing I can think of is media was stored to external source. When you imported media, did you use FCP to import from camera, or did you import the media after it was transfered to computer? Media can be stored in FCP library (I like this option the best) or linked to an external source. If the media is not in the package, then it was stored elsewhere else. You have the option when importing to FCP to store in FCP or leave in original location. Has media been erased from Camera? If it's not on camera, not on extrernal drive somewhere, and not in FCP library, then ?????????? If you have a project it still may be intact and useable if you can locate the media associated with it. Typically the events (media) and project are stored in the same library, although you can use events from any library in a project.

I have the same issue FCP X is pretty unstable for a PRO application, and that, after opening the project I'm working on is gone is prety poor form. I now managed to get most of it back thanks to this post but you would think Apple could do better in regsoring app after crash without haeving the project gone

I switched back to premiere pro cc. Although FCP has some great features, the instability is unacceptable for me. Also Premiere captures to files I can easily find and use in other apps.

Sorry apple. Maybe next FCP update.

Rich

I found solution...

Download some SQL Lite manager like https://sqlitepro.com

Locate Library file

click right and chose Show package content

in 'Event name' folder locate CurrentVersion.fcpevent

Open this file in manager

Locate Table of database named: 'ZCOLLECTION'

on menu bar click on DATA icon

Delete some last ROWs

Save and run Final Cut again

I deleted 4-5 row and then WOW I have my project back.