Boris Text 3D crashing FCP

This started as a missing Text editor. When I'd open the controls tab and try to open the Boris text editor, the pop-up window was nowhere to be found. I trashed my prefs but that didn't solve it. Now, whenever I try to open the text editor, all of FCP crashes. When I try to restart FCP, the start-up crashes and it never opens. Trashing the prefs DOES solve that issue and I'm able to get into FCP. But still can't access the Boris text editor. Any ideas?

I've had Boris lock up fcp several times-- enough that I always do a save before opening it. This usually only happens when the system has been up for a couple of days with tons of editing going on. A simple force quit of FCP and a machine restart has always done it for me-- hence the save every time I open Boris. My autosave is set VERY short, but you can lose a heck of a lot of work in 5 minutes if you're on a roll.
I know this doesn't solve anything, just my observation. I'm thinking that the tool has not advanced along with osx and it's starting to get buggy. Too bad because it used to be a solid and useful app. Perhaps Apple isn't pushing this because now motion does so much excellent title work...

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I'm using FCP5 and having a heck of a time. Once I put some titles in the project with Boris 3D, now the project won't even load up without crashing. In the past at least I could get the project opened, and then it would crash (over 50 times in the past 2 days!).
Any solutions would be great. I already ready a past post about using Font Book to test the fonts in the system and removing any corrupted ones.. but when I validate them all, they come up with warnings, yet none were seriously damaged.
I'm at a lose. I have deleted all render files thinking that might clear up any corruption in FCP, and still no luck.
I appreciate it.

Duplicates are no big deal really. But they will load into RAM when you launch an app that uses some form of text processing.
Use the command: Edit > *Resolve Duplicates* from the FontBook menu bar to turn them off.
EDIT: the Cambria font is installed by Microsoft Office and uses the ClearType format, which might not be compatible with Boris.
There are free TrueType versions [here|http://www.fontyukle.com/en/ara.php?ara=cambria] -you might have more luck with those.
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Boris Title 3D Crashes FCP

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Ding Ding! We have a winner. Over the weekend I was mulling the problem over and realized I had downloaded and installed a couple fonts the day before. Deleted them this morning and it works now. When I went into Suitcase to delete them, they showed as "Missing".
Thanks, Michael. Points for ya.
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I guess my problem is that I just need to pony up that $700.00 for Apple's "Pro applications technical support"
...maybe I should have purchased Edius Broadcast...
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I recently uploaded OSX 10.6.7 and ever since then, my Boris titler in FCP does not work with all the fonts, notably Avenir. It actually crashes FCP now. It was fine with the previous version. What's up Apple?

I know what your'e going through, Gary.   OSX 10.6.7 is an absolute disaster.   Since I upgraded, I've had problems in FCP, Logic, Garageband, even issue dealing with peripheral hardware like external monitors.
Before 10.6.7 my system was running fine.
I've brought this up with Apple repeatedly.   They smile and shrug.   They've been helpful resolving the issues, but none of them has been easy to solve. I have spent days, dealing back and forth with tech support, sending logs, etc., before solutions have been found.
I wish I could give you an answer to your question.   My only guess is that Apple has totally dropped the ball on this one.   In the future they should provide a disclaimer when they offer an upgrade. Something like:   "Caution: all of your software may not function after this upgrade. But go ahead, you'll feel cool that your OS is the latest thing."
As someone who has been with Apple for close to 25 years, I'm disturbed by what appears to be an increasing sloppiness in their work.   This is especially disturbing when you depend upon their system to make your living.
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Hello,
I am trying to type in about a paragraph of text into the 3d Title in FCP3. Is there a limit to how much text you can put in there. Once I am back on the timeline I get the beach ball
any time I click on that title. Can't resize etc.., I have chosen to put the text over a white background not black.
The text is from a PDF that doesn't look good in FCP once on DVD.
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You don't say how much ram you have but yes, A lot of text will slow down the Boris text tool. Make sure you don't have any other attributes turned on like shadows or edges, before you paste your text in. Try only loading a paragraph at a time to see how musch your G4 can tolerate.
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I always use Sony Premium mini DV tapes and import my video through my Sony DSR-11 miniDV deck into FCP.
I was recently handed a Fujifilm miniDV tape. The video imported fine. But once I dragged it to the timeline, rendering any transitions or filters caused big gray boxes to appear on the video. Sound also fell. I was able to make it work - but the exported file retained the boxes at different places each time I exported.
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and 2. Is there any way I can open this file? I trashed preferences and restarted with no luck.
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Changing brands used in the same camcorder has been reported as the cause of recording & playback problems. But, since the playback from the DSR was okay, I'm guessing the brand isn't the problem.
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Is there a way to change the master text length in FCP? The default length is 10 seconds, which is too long. I can easily adjust the length but I don't want to do it each time, and I don't want to adjust one and then have to copy and paste this length.

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Maybe some one else can pipe up with a solution, but this would literally take 2 seconds to do for a new project. And you can create a "template project" that includes this "text" clip. Save this project and then to a get info and check "stationary pad." When you double click on this file, fcp will open with a copy of this project and you just need to do a save as.
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For larger projects, running bins in thumbnail view crashes FCP.
Most of the time, I'm editing 6 to 8 min. stories for a news magazine format show. We shoot on Sony XDCAM, so usually 2 or 3 disks per project (roughly 44 mins of HD viddy per disk, with anywhere from 20 to 120 individual clips on the disk).
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HOW I IDENTIFIED THE PROBLEM:
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*"I am having similar issues with two separate projects. The only commonality between them is XDCam.*
*To possibly isolate it I reinstalled FCP on one system, and installed latest Blackmagic driver on the the same. Both systems are up to date visa vi OS, FCP, and QT.*
*Both still crash with the same regularity as described here."*
Apple, this problem has persisted for more than two years and is a major problem. Just search the forums including this one. Any further upgrades of Final Cut Studio or OS X are worthless until this problem is fixed. A brand new body and interior won't fix a car with a broken engine. Please help!! Please solve this issue with the XDCAM footage in FCP!
If anyone has any solutions or work arounds please notify me. I need it!
[email protected]
/\/\ichael
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XML Crashing FCP while importing. Magic Bullet Looks could be the problem

Hi All,
Need a little help here.
I am using FCP 6.0.5 on a power mac G-5.
I am trying to open an XML which was exported out of FCP 7 as a version 4 XML.
Magic Bullet Looks is being used on the project, and I think this is were the problem is.
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