Color Crashing on Open when loading media

Question

This is my first Color experience and I must say it has been painful. I tried to do the send to color function and crashed. I did however do the XML export and it worked yesterday. Then I started Grading . Things were kind of a pain but workable. at the end of the day I saved and left the system running because I am worried that the system would crash. I told my Assist not to touch the system at night because I am supposed to wrap today. I can In this morning and the system is down and had crashed. I re booted and went to start the project. the system loaded the project and then crashed to the Desktop. I restarted again and the same thing???? What the @#$% I am not sure what to do???? is there any trouble shooting that can be done. Trow away some file or something. There is not even a message. Go figure????? Please help I am doing this project pro bono.

Answer 1

Without an explicit SAVE, COLOR won't remember the rendered material, so those clips won't have any status, even when you get the project running again. However, they may come back if you can get an export XML to work from the COLOR project, without doing a re-render... hey it worked for me last week.
What else is running in the background? If its still resident, Final Cut will sometimes crash the program if it is set to autorender its active timeline after a certain period. ScreenSavers can interrupt.... what else?
You've restarted the system, I would bet. But do a full shut down, rather than a warm reboot. That would certainly be the case with SHAKE after it has consumed all remaining resources with a couple of Flipbooks and slowed the system to a standstill. Hard boot, or the problem won't go away.
Then try reopening the project a variety of ways. From COLOR, from the exported XML if you can find it, and you may have a fresh project with that option... in that case, maybe an Import COLOR CORRECTIONS will give you your grades back.
There may be other ways of trying to recover portions of the project by explicitly opening the saved colorproj with a Right-click "Show Package Contents"... then you can start trying to transplant parts of the project to stitch together a new prometheus (the original Mary Shelley title of a short novel she wrote about the creations of a certain Dr. Victor Frankenstein -- that's FRONK... en..shteen....)
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