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Q: My Final Cut Pro is Crashing when Editing my videos since I have downloaded El Capitan Anyone else ?

Ever Since upgrading to el capitan on my Mac Air .. my final cut pro

is crashing along with other issues but i require to edit my videos before sending

them to YOUTUBE

 

I have to continue to reboot computer and hope I can get through an editing session without it

crashing ...

 

anyone else know a fix or have this issue??

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Aug 5, 2016 8:48 AM

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Q: My Final Cut Pro is Crashing when Editing my videos since I have downloaded El Capitan Anyone else ?

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  • by BenB,

    BenB BenB Aug 5, 2016 3:13 PM in response to MacLoverJoliet
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    Aug 5, 2016 3:13 PM in response to MacLoverJoliet

    Be sure you have the latest versions of OS X 10.11, and the latest version of FCPX.  There's no issues with running that combination.  There's a few things to check.

    - How long is the Project you're exporting?

    - Are your Libraries and media on the system drive, or an external drive?

    - Do all drives have at least 15% of their total capacity, each, left as free space?

    - What are the other issues?

     

    In the mean time, try holding both the Option and Command keys at the same time while launching FCPX.  When prompted, delete preference files.

    Also, launch Disk Utility, and run Disk First Aid on all drives.

  • by commanderclif_me,

    commanderclif_me commanderclif_me Sep 4, 2016 7:26 AM in response to BenB
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    Sep 4, 2016 7:26 AM in response to BenB

    I was getting frequent Final Cut Pro crashes two weeks ago while working on a project. I was also noticing Adobe applications crashing that week. This past week I had that FCP project completed and was working on 4 new FCP projects and not a single one crashed nor any or my Adobe applications.

     

    My hunch is that there was something slightly a miss with something like a render file or something in that one project leading to the crashes. Keeping an eye on it but seemed like its likely connected with something in that one project that may have been the culprit.