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I have been working on a 50-minute project in color for over a week without difficulty. A few days ago some changes were made to the final cut and I easily reconformed my color project to the new XML exported from FCP. No issues seemed to result from this reconform.
Today, however... shots are missing inexplicably, with large gaps in my Color timeline where shots should be. When I try to reconform to the correct XML Color screws up the order of the shots, importing random shots here and there while also leaving the gaps empty.
The media directory has not changed at all...
Also, after reconforming to a new XML Color crashes if I try to play. Color also crashes if I try to import the color-corrections from my project into a new project based on the same exact sequence from Final Cut.
I get these messages from Console regarding these crashes:
6/16/09 8:16:50 PM System Preferences[271] CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
6/16/09 8:16:51 PM com.apple.launchd[146] ([0x0-0x20020].com.apple.color[210]) Exited abnormally: Bus error
I also get errors regarding Color's attempt to reconnect with the shots in my Color project upon reconforming:
6/16/09 3:38:58 PM [0x0-0x7f07f].com.apple.color[1181] ftconformapply: error couldn't find shot with id 365
6/16/09 3:38:58 PM [0x0-0x7f07f].com.apple.color[1181] ftconformapply: error couldn't find shot with id 366
6/16/09 3:38:58 PM [0x0-0x7f07f].com.apple.color[1181] ftconformapply: error couldn't find shot with id 367
Anybody have any clues as to what the problem could be? Everything was working fine until today..
-Evan

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Some users have great Voodoo and never have problems. I have bad Voodoo (or is it juju) and never have anything but problems (except on a timeline I reconformed last week that worked surprisingly well and saved me about an hour).
When I find myself in your situation (which used to happen frighteningly frequently) I just start from scratch. First, if you can keep your original Color project open long enough - save out representative grades starting from beginning all the way through to end (you could save them all, but I find that tedious - I prefer pulling the representative ones and then tweaking as necessary when re-applying).
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OR - spend the next day trouble-shooting this and then, after all else has failed, do the above.
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