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Q: How do i trash preferences in FCP 7?

I'm running FCP 7 on an iMac with OS10.7.5  Getting a general error of "out of memory" and can't figure out how to trash prefs.  The old .plist and User Data files don't seem to exist or are very well hidden!  Thanks! 

Posted on Nov 17, 2015 1:43 PM

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Q: How do i trash preferences in FCP 7?

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  • by Russ H,

    Russ H Russ H Nov 17, 2015 3:47 PM in response to ACinJC
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    Nov 17, 2015 3:47 PM in response to ACinJC

    You could follow these steps.

     

    Or you could download Digital Rebellion's Preference Manager for a one-click solution.

     

    Preferences may not be the problem. Do you have big (>4K) still images in your sequence? And are all (if any) stills RGB?

     

    Russ

  • by ACinJC,

    ACinJC ACinJC Nov 17, 2015 3:59 PM in response to Russ H
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    Nov 17, 2015 3:59 PM in response to Russ H

    Thanks for the response, Russ.  The link "these steps" didn't work for me but I'll check out the Digital Rebellion thing.

     

    I think the problem may NOT have been the need to trash preferences.  Even though the clip I was editing (.mov, under 2 minutes) was a QuickTime file, when I opened it and then exported it from Quicktime, I was able to open the new clip in FCP with no problem (except aspect ratio - oy).  It may be that the clip I got was edited in Premiere and even though it was saved as .mov, my old version of Final Cut and old OS weren't happy.

     

    Anyhow,  thanks!

     

    AC

  • by Russ H,

    Russ H Russ H Nov 17, 2015 4:17 PM in response to ACinJC
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    Nov 17, 2015 4:17 PM in response to ACinJC

    Don't know why the link doesn't work, but here is a copy of the steps.

     

    on your MAC internal hard drive, navigate to

    /users/yourloginname/library/preferences, and delete this file -

    com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist

     

    navigate to

    /user/yourloginname/library/preferences/FinalCutProUserData

    and delete these three files -

    Final Cut Pro 6.0 Preferences

    Final Cut Pro Obj Cache

    Final Cut Pro Prof Cache