FCP Crashes every time I load this project

Question

I am quite new to FCP and recently have been sent a project that was originally laid down by my colleagues in India. He has sent me supposedly all of the files on a DVD, when I open the fcp project I get the message I have to reconnect the media, this I do but some files cannot reconnect. during this time before I get chance to render the project and all within 1-2mins of loading the project the program crashes with an error report stating "Final Cut Pro quit unexpectedly while using the lib3ivxEnc.dylib plugin". There is a long list of text that I do not know what it means but I cannot simply open the project without crashing.
Can anyone help direct me what to do?

Answer 1

First of all, have you moved the project in question, media and all to one of your hard drives?
2nd, try NOT reconnecting, then saving the project under a new name, exiting FCP, opening the new project and relinking the media. If that crashes, Digital Rebellion has a utility that will examine all the media in an FCP project and tell you which is corrupt.
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcsmaintenance/
If you don't want to spend the money, try this:
Open the saved project, don't relink the media. Select half the clips in the browser. Right/ctrl-click and select Relink. If that is unsuccessful, open the project again and select the other half and try again. If successful, save and select half the remaining, relink, repeat.
The goal is to half-by-half find out what media is crashing your system.
Patrick