FCP 5.1.1 crahses a lot on Mac Pro

My spanking new Mac Pro and FCP 5.1.1 seem to have a problem as FCP crashes a lot. Log says for the last couple of crashes:
0x9fe8f000 - 0x9fed1fff ProMediaIO /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/Frameworks/ProMediaIO.framework/Versions/A/ProMediaIO
0x9ff06000 - 0x9ff89fff ProMediaIOClasses /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/Frameworks/ProMediaIOClasses.framework/Versions/A/ProMediaIOCl asses
0x9ffc9000 - 0x9ffc9fff ProMediaIOUnit /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/Frameworks/ProMediaIOUnit.framework/Versions/A/ProMediaIOUnit
0x9ffcb000 - 0x9ffeafff com.apple.AVCVideoServices 1.0 (28) /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/Frameworks/AVCVideoServices.framework/Versions/A/AVCVideoServi ces
The mighty mouse (wired) leaves vertical lines on the timeline as I scroll horizontally during playback. This to me seems a video problem. Where to look and has anyone similar experience?

My media lodged on a seperate harddrive, so way from the system disk.
It appears Mediabox 2 from ProTools causes the crashing. Hopefully simply a setting.
Paul

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I have about 22 minutes of video which seems to take anywhere from 2 to 5 hours to compress to the MP4 format. The machine claims that 2.6 out of 4 processors worth of processing is going on... Perhaps this is just an artifact of the emulation of the PPC hardware/software... But - yuck.
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2006-12-10 10:19:13.618 sample[3176] threadreadstack: stack appears to be corrupt or in inconsistent state. Truncating stack.
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Call graph:
99 Thread_0f07
5 0xb80c7b3a
5 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt
3 spinlockwrapper
3 spinlockwrapper
2 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt
1 0xb808a478
1 spinlockwrapper
1 0xb80bd3cc
1 0xb827799e
1 0xb827799e
1 spinlockwrapper
1 spinlockwrapper
2 0x78db647f
2 0xbfffc110
1 0x631d5586
1 0x631d5586
1 0x631d67b1
1 0x631d67b1
2 0xb8043850
2 0xb8043850
2 0xbfffbd10
1 0x630f8de3
1 0x630f8de3
1 0x630f9c32
1 0x630f9c32
1 0x628e317
1 0x628e317
1 0x628e392
1 0x628e392
1 0x628e74a
1 0x628e74a
1 0x628edde
1 0x628edde
1 0x628ee2d
1 0x628ee2d
1 0x628f319
1 0x628f319
1 0x628f562
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Any ideas - can this be improved? Or am I going to have to wait for the new 'discs' to arrive.
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Fay Krause wrote:
... I've read on this forum at times that FCP does not use more than 4 cores when rendering....
You are confusing cores with RAM.
FCP is a 32bit app. This means it can not make use of more than 4 GB of Ram (2.5 GB for the program and 1.5 for the frameworks).
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Well, my G5 apparently needs a new logic board. I could cry, or be happy at the excuse to get a new computer... I chose the latter!
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I will be using FCP a lot, that's what I do for a living. However, I rarely run other applications at the same time. Occassionally LiveType or Photoshop, but that's about it. No Motion, no After Effects, etc.
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My spanking new Mac Pro and FCP 5.1.1 seem to have a problem as FCP crashes a lot. Log says for the last couple of crashes:
0x9fe8f000 - 0x9fed1fff ProMediaIO /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/Frameworks/ProMediaIO.framework/Versions/A/ProMediaIO
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The mighty mouse (wired) leaves vertical lines on the timeline as I scroll horizontally during playback. This to me seems a video problem. Where to look and has anyone similar experience?

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Thanks for that Nick and Jerry.
I now think that the external hard drive posts that I was looking at were for machines that did not have the capability of adding internal hard drives.
I actually have ordered a 1TB Samsung HD103UJ SATA2 32M (as per the Barefeats tests). Hoping that it would be a suitable internal dive.
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And Nick, I do not think that I was looking for a bootable drive for Time Machine, just something that has a copy of my video clips from my different projects in case I have some sort of hard drive incident. I understand how running Time Machine during editing would not be a good idea, but would it be ok to use it to back up my video files if I just ran it each night after editing. I am taking it that FCP has an auto save feature also for my projects backups.
I had actually already ordered a Iomega Prestige 1 TB USB 2.0 3.5-Inch Hard Drive for the time machine drive. Should I be getting a firewire drive for that instead of USB?
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You might want to consider more than 12 GB of RAM. On my system, FCP X seems to hover around 7 GB of real memory.
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The new iMacs (specifically the fastest ones, with the most GPU RAM) are very good FCP X editing machines. They can keep up with the fastest Mac Pros, for less money. But, you do loose internal expansion and would have to move to Thunderbolt. Probably at least three times the perfomance of what you have now.

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4x3 NSTC
How many drives in the machine and how much free space on each one?
One internal drive 108 GB left. One external G-raid 12 GB left.
Where is the media stored?
Scratch disks on on the G-raid hard drive and render files etc are on internal drive, still photos and motion files on main drive.
Is the RAM from Apple and is it all the same size (i.e. all 512mb modules)?
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I can do this but does not solve my motion crashes.
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lance

You haven't told us about the type of footage that you are working with, nor the spec of your current Mac Pro.
That said, FCP can currently only address 1 processor core and 2.5GB of RAM.
You should certainly have your footage on a separate drive and not on the system drive, where the Mac OS and applications reside. Whether or not a RAID setup would be beneficial depends on the format that you work with -if it is mostly DV, there will be little to no benefit.
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Join your local FCP User Group or check out this site: http://www.lafcpug.org/
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http://www.secondchairvideo.com/
http://lfhd.net/
http://www.thrillcateditorial.com/
http://web.me.com/michaelgrenadier/revised_website/PostproductionConsultant.html
http://www.fcpbook.com/
http://www.amazon.com/How-Cheat-Motion-Patrick-Sheffield/dp/024081097X

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I have an Apple Mac Pro. It is almost 7 years old and will not accept FCP X. I have been waiting for Apple to make a new Mac Pro, but I don't know when that will happen.
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Computers will always be better, faster, and cheaper if you wait. [A new Mac Pro may not be solid on day 1.] At some point, you have to get your work done, and just have to hold your nose and choose from what is avaiable and stable at the moment.

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