DVD Studio Pro 3 unexpectedly quits!

I first noticed this problem when I would add audio to the menu. As soon as I dragged and dropped DSP would quit! Now, anything I do it just quits. Any suggestions on what the problem could be and how I can fix it.

Hi Katie,
Sorry to hear that. Perhaps you could take a closer look at the original media files (that you're trying to drop into DSP) to see if they're playing correctly (and not corrupted). If they're fine, I'd try trashing DSP's prefs--~Library>Preferences>com.apple.dvdstudiopro.plist--and starting DSP back up again.
Cheers.

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Evren Aydogdu
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Re: DVD Studio Pro quits unexpectedly
Nov 27, 2012 5:07 AM (in response to Evren Aydogdu)
Maybe my story will help You...
just after upgrade to Snow Leopard (new disk for system, users, settings and apps transferred from old system) DVD SP quits when i tryied to choose for example another location for my build.
None of these standard task helped:
repair permissions
restart
new user
delete preferences
reinstall DVDSP...
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1. Download ProKitUpdate7.0
2. Download newest Pacifist
3. Open package ProKitUpdate7.0 with Pacifist
4. Install package ProKitUpdate7.0 with administrator privileges with reaplace option enabled for all.
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Re: DVD Studio Pro quits unexpectedly
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Thank you very much for your help and apologies for my late reply, I've been quite busy recently.
The computer I'm using is newly bought iMac with OS X 10.8.2. A newer version of ProKitUpdate was already on my computer when I tried ProKitUpdate 7.0. Your solution doesn't seem to apply to mine but thank you for your kindness.
But I didn't give up and deleted Final Cut Studio 3 completely with FCS Remover, did the verify and repair thing in safe boot mode and reinstalled FS3 again. It's still the same.
I don't think there is anything I left out after reading all the web pages, searching all forums. If it doesn't get interfered by other installed programmes such as After Effects CS5.5 or Photoshop CS5.1, which I don't know how to find out, then it is the compatibility problem. I can't think of anything else. And in this case it was a big mistake buying the newest technology computer as I'm not willing to try out Final Cut Pro X and learn another DVD authoring programme.

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If you have a font problem, this tip may help.
And in this case it was a big mistake buying the newest technology computer as I'm not willing to try out Final Cut Pro X and learn another DVD authoring programme.
I would be optimistic that this will get sorted out OK. Many people are successfully running FCS3 on ML.
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