FCP hang

Hi all,
I'm currently running FCP 6.03 on an iMac 24' 3.06 running OS10.5.3.
While digitising at pal 48 from a Sony DSR-40p through firewire to a WD fw800 raid drive I'm getting frequent freezes after about 10 or 12 minutes of digitising. It is fairly erratic will sometimes get through whole tape and then crash on the last clip in batch capture. My mac is only a few weeks old and this is my first project, any advice out there about what to check? What is the maximum length of clip that FCP can handle. Is it better to capture onto internal drive and then xfer to WD drive? Would appreciate any advice.
Thanks in advance.

oy. do you have an IT help. I used to teach Avid editing at SVA here in NY and they basically had someone fulltime to manage the avid lab. It is a fulltime job.
And it's next to impossible to control what your students are doing. Are they allowed to bring in media? Nonstandard or wonky media can cause problems.
One thing I might suggest is that you create alternate startup disks for use when working with fcp. Keep this startup drive as clean as possible and see if that effects the hangs.

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4GB 667 Mhz DDR2 FB-DIMM
FCP 6.0.6
Attached stack trace taken during the hang:
Sampling process 162 for 3 seconds with 1 millisecond of run time between samples
Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Analysis of sampling Final Cut Pro (pid 162) every 1 millisecond
Call graph:
1171 Thread_2507
1171 start
1171 _start
1171 main
1171 KGMainEvent(void*)
1171 RunApplicationEventLoop
1171 ToolboxEventDispatcher
1171 SendEventToEventTarget
1171 SendEventToEventTargetInternal(OpaqueEventRef*, OpaqueEventTargetRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
1171 DispatchEventToHandlers(EventTargetRec*, OpaqueEventRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
1171 ToolboxEventDispatcherHandler(OpaqueEventHandlerCallRef*, OpaqueEventRef*, void*)
1171 SendEventToEventTarget
1171 SendEventToEventTargetInternal(OpaqueEventRef*, OpaqueEventTargetRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
1171 DispatchEventToHandlers(EventTargetRec*, OpaqueEventRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
1171 Events(OpaqueEventHandlerCallRef*, OpaqueEventRef*, void*)
1171 DoEvent(OpaqueEventRef*, KGDictInt*)
1171 HandleMouseDown(OpaqueEventRef*)
1171 pKGSendWindowMessage(KGWindowRec*, long, long, KGDictInt*)
1171 pKGPanelWindowProc(long, long, KGDictInt*, void*)
1171 TimelineMessageProc(long, long, KGDictInt*, KGPanelRecord*)
1171 ServicesPanelsMessageProc(long, long, KGDictInt*, KGPanelRecord*)
1171 pKGPanelMessage(long, long, KGDictInt*, KGViewRecord*)
1171 PPassMouseEvent(KGPanelRecord*, KGDictInt*, long)
1171 pKGRulerMessage(long, long, KGDictInt*, KGViewRecord*)
1171 pKGPlayerScrubAudio(KGPlayerRec*, double)
1171 KGPlayerScrubAudioFull(KGPlayerRec*, double, KGDictInt*)
1171 pKGAudioMixerDoScrub
1171 pKGAudioSetTransportRate
1171 STTransportStart
1171 STTransport::Start()
1171 STMixer::Start()
1171 AudioUnitGraph::Start()
1171 AudioOutputUnitStart
1171 CallComponentDispatch
1171 DefaultOutputAUEntry
1171 AUGenericOutputEntry
1171 AudioDeviceStart
1171 HALDevice::StartIOProc(long (*)(unsigned long, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList const*, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList*, AudioTimeStamp const*, void*))
1171 HALPlugIn::DeviceStartIOProc(HALObject const&, long (*)(unsigned long, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList const*, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList*, AudioTimeStamp const*, void*))
1171 HPHardwarePlugInDeviceStart(AudioHardwarePlugInInterface**, unsigned long, long (*)(unsigned long, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList const*, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList*, AudioTimeStamp const*, void*))
1171 HPDevice::ExecuteCommand(HPCommand*)
1171 HP_Device::StartIOProc(long (*)(unsigned long, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList const*, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList*, AudioTimeStamp const*, void*))
1171 HP_IOProcList::StartIOProc(long (*)(unsigned long, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList const*, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList*, AudioTimeStamp const*, void*))
1171 HP_IOProc::AllocateBufferList(bool)
1171 HPIOProc::AllocateBufferList(HPDevice const&, bool, std::vector<bool, std::allocator<bool> > const&, unsigned long, std::vector<IOBuffer*, std::allocator<IOBuffer*> >&, bool, bool)
1171 IOA_Stream::RegisterIOBuffer(unsigned long, unsigned long, void*)
1171 IOA_HWDevice::RegisterIOBuffer(unsigned int, long, void*, unsigned long, unsigned long)
1171 IOConnectCallMethod
1171 ioconnectmethod
1171 mach_msg
1171 machmsgtrap
1171 machmsgtrap
1171 Thread_2603
1171 thread_start
1171 pthreadstart
1171 select$DARWIN_EXTSN
1171 select$DARWIN_EXTSN
1171 Thread_2703
1171 start_wqthread
1171 _workqops
1171 _workqops
1171 Thread_2803
1171 start_wqthread
1171 _workqops
1171 _workqops
1171 Thread_2903
1171 0x0
1171 0x0
1171 Thread_2a03
1171 0x0
1171 0x0
1171 Thread_2b03
1171 thread_start
1171 pthreadstart
1171 kevent
1171 kevent
1171 Thread_2c03
1171 thread_start
1171 pthreadstart
1171 glvmDoWork
1171 pthreadcondwait$UNIX2003
1171 _semwaitsignal
1171 _semwaitsignal
1171 Thread_2d03
1171 thread_start
1171 pthreadstart
1171 Thread::RunHelper(void*)
1171 DisplayQueue::Run()
1171 Synchronizable::Wait()
1171 pthreadcondwait
1171 pthread_condwait
1171 semaphorewait_signaltrap
1171 semaphorewait_signaltrap
1171 Thread_2e03
1171 thread_start
1171 pthreadstart
1171 Thread::RunHelper(void*)
1171 WorkUnitPerformer::Run()
1171 Synchronizable::Wait()
1171 pthreadcondwait
1171 pthread_condwait
1171 semaphorewait_signaltrap
1171 semaphorewait_signaltrap
1171 Thread_2f03
1171 thread_start
1171 pthreadstart
1171 Thread::RunHelper(void*)
1171 WorkUnitPerformer::Run()
1171 Synchronizable::Wait()
1171 pthreadcondwait
1171 pthread_condwait
1171 semaphorewait_signaltrap
1171 semaphorewait_signaltrap
1171 Thread_3003
1171 thread_start
1171 pthreadstart
1171 Thread::RunHelper(void*)
1171 WorkUnitPerformer::Run()
1171 Synchronizable::Wait()
1171 pthreadcondwait
1171 pthread_condwait
1171 semaphorewait_signaltrap
1171 semaphorewait_signaltrap
1171 Thread_3103
1171 thread_start
1171 pthreadstart
1171 AVS::DestroyAVCDeviceController(AVS::AVCDeviceController*)
1171 CFRunLoopRun
1171 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
1171 mach_msg
1171 machmsgtrap
1171 machmsgtrap
1171 Thread_3203
1171 thread_start
1171 pthreadstart
1171 CAPThread::Entry(CAPThread*)
1171 HALRunLoop::OwnThread(void*)
1171 CFRunLoopRunInMode
1171 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
1171 mach_msg
1171 machmsgtrap
1171 machmsgtrap
1171 Thread_3303
1171 thread_start
1171 pthreadstart
1171 CAPThread::Entry(CAPThread*)
1171 MIO::DAL::RunLoop::OwnThread(void*)
1171 CFRunLoopRunInMode
1171 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
1171 mach_msg
1171 machmsgtrap
1171 machmsgtrap
1171 Thread_3403
1171 thread_start
1171 pthreadstart
1171 ReadSchedulerThreadEntryPoint
1171 TSWaitOnSemaphoreCommon
1171 TSWaitOnConditionTimedRelative
1171 pthreadcond_timedwait_relativenp
1171 pthread_condwait
1171 semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap
1171 semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap
1171 Thread_3503
1171 thread_start
1171 pthreadstart
1171 AIOFileThread(void*)
1171 TSWaitOnSemaphoreCommon
1171 TSWaitOnConditionTimedRelative
1171 pthreadcond_timedwait_relativenp
1171 pthread_condwait
1171 semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap
1171 semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap
1171 Thread_3603
1171 thread_start
1171 pthreadstart
1171 PrivateMPEntryPoint
1171 DecompressFramesMPTask
1171 MPWaitOnSemaphore
1171 semaphoretimedwaittrap
1171 semaphoretimedwaittrap
1171 Thread_3703
1171 thread_start
1171 pthreadstart
1171 PrivateMPEntryPoint
1171 DecompressFramesMPTask
1171 MPWaitOnSemaphore
1171 semaphoretimedwaittrap
1171 semaphoretimedwaittrap
1171 Thread_3803
1171 thread_start
1171 pthreadstart
1171 PrivateMPEntryPoint
1171 DecompressFramesMPTask
1171 MPWaitOnSemaphore
1171 semaphoretimedwaittrap
1171 semaphoretimedwaittrap
Total number in stack (recursive counted multiple, when >=5):
15 pthreadstart
15 thread_start
6 pthread_condwait
Sort by top of stack, same collapsed (when >= 5):
machmsgtrap 4684
semaphorewait_signaltrap 4684
semaphoretimedwaittrap 3513
0x0 2342
_workqops 2342
semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap 2342
_semwaitsignal 1171
kevent 1171
select$DARWIN_EXTSN 1171
Sample analysis of process 162 written to file /dev/stdout

I had the same problem
using exactly the same hardware.
This is my stack file:
Sampling process 193 for 3 seconds with 1 millisecond of run time between samples
Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Analysis of sampling Final Cut Pro (pid 193) every 1 millisecond
Call graph:
1208 Thread_2507
1208 start
1208 _start
1208 main
1208 KGMainEvent(void*)
1208 RunApplicationEventLoop
1208 ToolboxEventDispatcher
1208 SendEventToEventTarget
1208 SendEventToEventTargetInternal(OpaqueEventRef*, OpaqueEventTargetRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
1208 DispatchEventToHandlers(EventTargetRec*, OpaqueEventRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
1208 ToolboxEventDispatcherHandler(OpaqueEventHandlerCallRef*, OpaqueEventRef*, void*)
1208 SendEventToEventTarget
1208 SendEventToEventTargetInternal(OpaqueEventRef*, OpaqueEventTargetRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
1208 DispatchEventToHandlers(EventTargetRec*, OpaqueEventRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
1208 StandardWindowEventHandler(OpaqueEventHandlerCallRef*, OpaqueEventRef*, void*)
1208 HandleMouseEvent(OpaqueEventHandlerCallRef*, OpaqueEventRef*)
1208 CallNextEventHandler
1208 SendEventToEventTargetInternal(OpaqueEventRef*, OpaqueEventTargetRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
1208 DispatchEventToHandlers(EventTargetRec*, OpaqueEventRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
1208 HIObject::EventHook(OpaqueEventHandlerCallRef*, OpaqueEventRef*, void*)
1208 HIObject::HandleEvent(OpaqueEventHandlerCallRef*, OpaqueEventRef*)
1208 SendEventToEventTargetWithOptions
1208 SendEventToEventTargetInternal(OpaqueEventRef*, OpaqueEventTargetRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
1208 DispatchEventToHandlers(EventTargetRec*, OpaqueEventRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
1208 StandardWindowEventHandler(OpaqueEventHandlerCallRef*, OpaqueEventRef*, void*)
1208 HandleMouseEvent(OpaqueEventHandlerCallRef*, OpaqueEventRef*)
1208 SendEventToEventTarget
1208 SendEventToEventTargetInternal(OpaqueEventRef*, OpaqueEventTargetRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
1208 DispatchEventToHandlers(EventTargetRec*, OpaqueEventRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
1208 HIObject::EventHook(OpaqueEventHandlerCallRef*, OpaqueEventRef*, void*)
1208 HIObject::HandleEvent(OpaqueEventHandlerCallRef*, OpaqueEventRef*)
1208 SendEventToEventTargetWithOptions
1208 SendEventToEventTargetInternal(OpaqueEventRef*, OpaqueEventTargetRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
1208 DispatchEventToHandlers(EventTargetRec*, OpaqueEventRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
1208 WheelEventHandler(OpaqueEventHandlerCallRef*, OpaqueEventRef*, void*)
1208 HandleWheelMove(long, long, long)
1208 pKGRulerMessage(long, long, KGDictInt*, KGViewRecord*)
1208 pKGPlayerStep(KGPlayerRec*, double, unsigned char, double)
1208 pKGPlayerGoto(KGPlayerRec*, double, long, unsigned char)
1208 pKGPlayerScrubAudio(KGPlayerRec*, double)
1208 KGPlayerScrubAudioFull(KGPlayerRec*, double, KGDictInt*)
1208 pKGAudioMixerDoScrub
1208 pKGAudioSetTransportRate
1208 STTransportStart
1208 STTransport::Start()
1208 STMixer::Start()
1208 AudioUnitGraph::Start()
1208 AudioOutputUnitStart
1208 CallComponentDispatch
1208 DefaultOutputAUEntry
1208 AUGenericOutputEntry
1208 AudioDeviceStart
1208 HALDevice::StartIOProc(long (*)(unsigned long, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList const*, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList*, AudioTimeStamp const*, void*))
1208 HALPlugIn::DeviceStartIOProc(HALObject const&, long (*)(unsigned long, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList const*, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList*, AudioTimeStamp const*, void*))
1208 HPHardwarePlugInDeviceStart(AudioHardwarePlugInInterface**, unsigned long, long (*)(unsigned long, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList const*, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList*, AudioTimeStamp const*, void*))
1208 HPDevice::ExecuteCommand(HPCommand*)
1208 HP_Device::StartIOProc(long (*)(unsigned long, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList const*, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList*, AudioTimeStamp const*, void*))
1208 HP_IOProcList::StartIOProc(long (*)(unsigned long, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList const*, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList*, AudioTimeStamp const*, void*))
1208 HP_IOProc::AllocateBufferList(bool)
1208 HPIOProc::AllocateBufferList(HPDevice const&, bool, std::vector<bool, std::allocator<bool> > const&, unsigned long, std::vector<IOBuffer*, std::allocator<IOBuffer*> >&, bool, bool)
1208 IOA_Stream::RegisterIOBuffer(unsigned long, unsigned long, void*)
1208 IOA_HWDevice::RegisterIOBuffer(unsigned int, long, void*, unsigned long, unsigned long)
1208 IOConnectCallMethod
1208 ioconnectmethod
1208 mach_msg
1208 machmsgtrap
1208 machmsgtrap
1208 Thread_2603
1208 thread_start
1208 pthreadstart
1208 select$DARWIN_EXTSN
1208 select$DARWIN_EXTSN
1208 Thread_2703
1208 start_wqthread
1208 _workqops
1208 _workqops
1208 Thread_2803
1208 start_wqthread
1208 _workqops
1208 _workqops
1208 Thread_2903
1208 0x0
1208 0x0
1208 Thread_2a03
1208 0x0
1208 0x0
1208 Thread_2b03
1208 thread_start
1208 pthreadstart
1208 kevent
1208 kevent
1208 Thread_2c03
1208 thread_start
1208 pthreadstart
1208 glvmDoWork
1208 pthreadcondwait$UNIX2003
1208 _semwaitsignal
1208 _semwaitsignal
1208 Thread_2d03
1208 thread_start
1208 pthreadstart
1208 Thread::RunHelper(void*)
1208 DisplayQueue::Run()
1208 Synchronizable::Wait()
1208 pthreadcondwait
1208 pthread_condwait
1208 semaphorewait_signaltrap
1208 semaphorewait_signaltrap
1208 Thread_2e03
1208 thread_start
1208 pthreadstart
1208 Thread::RunHelper(void*)
1208 WorkUnitPerformer::Run()
1208 Synchronizable::Wait()
1208 pthreadcondwait
1208 pthread_condwait
1208 semaphorewait_signaltrap
1208 semaphorewait_signaltrap
1208 Thread_2f03
1208 thread_start
1208 pthreadstart
1208 Thread::RunHelper(void*)
1208 WorkUnitPerformer::Run()
1208 Synchronizable::Wait()
1208 pthreadcondwait
1208 pthread_condwait
1208 semaphorewait_signaltrap
1208 semaphorewait_signaltrap
1208 Thread_3003
1208 thread_start
1208 pthreadstart
1208 Thread::RunHelper(void*)
1208 WorkUnitPerformer::Run()
1208 Synchronizable::Wait()
1208 pthreadcondwait
1208 pthread_condwait
1208 semaphorewait_signaltrap
1208 semaphorewait_signaltrap
1208 Thread_3103
1208 thread_start
1208 pthreadstart
1208 AVS::DestroyAVCDeviceController(AVS::AVCDeviceController*)
1208 CFRunLoopRun
1208 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
1208 mach_msg
1208 machmsgtrap
1208 machmsgtrap
1208 Thread_3203
1208 thread_start
1208 pthreadstart
1208 CAPThread::Entry(CAPThread*)
1208 HALRunLoop::OwnThread(void*)
1208 CFRunLoopRunInMode
1208 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
1208 mach_msg
1208 machmsgtrap
1208 machmsgtrap
1208 Thread_3303
1208 thread_start
1208 pthreadstart
1208 CAPThread::Entry(CAPThread*)
1208 MIO::DAL::RunLoop::OwnThread(void*)
1208 CFRunLoopRunInMode
1208 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
1208 mach_msg
1208 machmsgtrap
1208 machmsgtrap
1208 Thread_3403
1208 thread_start
1208 pthreadstart
1208 ReadSchedulerThreadEntryPoint
1208 TSWaitOnSemaphoreCommon
1208 TSWaitOnConditionTimedRelative
1208 pthreadcond_timedwait_relativenp
1208 pthread_condwait
1208 semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap
1208 semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap
1208 Thread_3503
1208 thread_start
1208 pthreadstart
1208 AIOFileThread(void*)
1208 TSWaitOnSemaphoreCommon
1208 TSWaitOnConditionTimedRelative
1208 pthreadcond_timedwait_relativenp
1208 pthread_condwait
1208 semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap
1208 semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap
1208 Thread_3603
1208 thread_start
1208 pthreadstart
1208 PrivateMPEntryPoint
1208 DecompressFramesMPTask
1208 MPWaitOnSemaphore
1208 semaphoretimedwaittrap
1208 semaphoretimedwaittrap
1208 Thread_3703
1208 thread_start
1208 pthreadstart
1208 PrivateMPEntryPoint
1208 DecompressFramesMPTask
1208 MPWaitOnSemaphore
1208 semaphoretimedwaittrap
1208 semaphoretimedwaittrap
1208 Thread_3803
1208 thread_start
1208 pthreadstart
1208 PrivateMPEntryPoint
1208 DecompressFramesMPTask
1208 MPWaitOnSemaphore
1208 semaphoretimedwaittrap
1208 semaphoretimedwaittrap
Total number in stack (recursive counted multiple, when >=5):
15 pthreadstart
15 thread_start
6 DispatchEventToHandlers(EventTargetRec*, OpaqueEventRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
6 SendEventToEventTargetInternal(OpaqueEventRef*, OpaqueEventTargetRef*, HandlerCallRec*)
6 pthread_condwait
Sort by top of stack, same collapsed (when >= 5):
machmsgtrap 4832
semaphorewait_signaltrap 4832
semaphoretimedwaittrap 3624
0x0 2416
_workqops 2416
semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap 2416
_semwaitsignal 1208
kevent 1208
select$DARWIN_EXTSN 1208
Sample analysis of process 193 written to file /dev/stdout

FCP Hangs for no discernible reason

FCP 7.0.2 has been hanging a lot lately - crashing several times a day. I'm working on a ProRes HD timeline, and sometimes when I try to play the timeline, I get the beachball. Ultimately, I have to force quit, but although the FCP process is not in top or in the Activity Monitor, the OS seems to think it's still active. The icon is still in the dock with the white dot and if I alt-tab, it's there, too. If I quit the app, and let the computer sleep, FCP hangs when starting back up.
I have a Blackmagic Decklink SDI card that I thought might be the culprit, but I stopped sending the video signal through it - still the same problem. I tried trashing my prefs and the cache - no dice. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Probably no help but I recently had the beachball show up for the first time in manyyears. Turned out I was trying to use MP3 and WAV music files in my timeline. Exported them as AIFF and things smoothed right out. Disconcerting with the new hardware and OS, I figured I 'd be gaining, not losing functionality and speed.
bogiesan

FCP hangs because of Hard Drvie

Hi,
This is a drive problem primarily I think, and it hangs FCP.
If I leave my iMac 2.8Ghz Intel Core i7 with 8GB RAM running OS 10.6.5 for an hour or so, the Rocstor Eagleroc 1.5TB (in FIrewire 800 mode) hangs and cannot be accessed, even though I have Energy Saver's 'put the hard disks to sleep' unticked.
I have the computer sleep after an hour, but all my other drives can be accessed when i return. This hangs my Final Cut Pro and is extremely annoying. What to do please?
The drive is chained (via a Firewire 800 to 400 cable) to a DVD burner which is chained to another firewire drive, which is off at the moment.
I have installed Disksomina from Digital Heaven (http://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/disksomnia), that hasn't changed things for the better with this particular drive.

Thanks Patrick, I'll investigate the fan issue, and also whether the drive hangs when used with other applications (it's the Capture Scratch for my FCP). In any case, I wrote to Rocstor, and they suggested disconnecting other drives chained to it, which I did, but nothing's changed - if I leave the computer overnight, in the morning I find FCP not responding, and when I try to open folders on the drive via the finder, it shows as if they're empty, and then the Finder crashes, even force-quitting doesn't recover it, and then I simply have to re-start the OS, which is very annoying.
Message was edited by: Roi Huberman
Message was edited by: Roi Huberman

FCP 'hangs' during app start-up

Hey all,
I had a similar post earlier this week but now the SBBOD is happening during Final Cut's boot up. To be exact, it hangs right after it doesn't 'see' my DVCAM deck. Although I've tried starting FCP with and without the deck on...it still just sits...with the spinning beach ball.
Anyone have/had this issue?
Restarting the computer seems to fix it but there's obviously a problem somewhere.
And here are my system's stats: OSX 10.5.6, FCP 6.0.5, & QT 7.5.5
Thanks,
Tom

Trashed preferences?
Yes
Run Disk Utility?
Yes*
Any recent software updates?
Nope
Tried creating a new user account and opeing FCP from there?
Not yet...but don't think that'll help...but will try that.
Checked the problem projects for CMYK graphics or file/graphic/render corruption?
I was one of the original responders that figured out the CMYK issues when they first arose
Have you recently done a major OS upgrade? If so, did you do a clean archive/wipe/install?...or did you use Migration Assistant? I don't believe clean system os installs are ever the answer...especially when issues come up out of the blue.
No
*I think it's still a hard drive issue (using an external FW drive) even though disk utility says everything's fine.

FCP hangs (temporarily) without using any CPU

Sometimes my FCP decides to take a coffee break or something: it just hangs, sometimes for many minutes at a time. Almost invariably it unhangs eventually if I just let it sit for long enough. Sometimes it does this while "preparing video for display" and sometimes it just goes out to lunch for no apparent reason and I get the SBOD. In either case, the strange thing is that CPU usage (as measured by TOP via a terminal window) shows that FCP is using almost no CPU while this is happening. The entire machine is almost completely idle.
Anyone have any idea what could be going on?
Thanks.

Its probably just while we're hacking in and messing with your stuff Ron

FCP hangs on launch and then won't force quit

I am having trouble launching FCP.
it will hang about at the point that it is llooking for the deck. I try to force quit and it hangs up there too.
I did manage to get it to come up once but I noticed in thhe capture settings that the Apple Firewire setting was (missing). I have also been getting the "You must restart hold down the power button" message alot lately.

Here is my suggestion
1. Update Mac Pro EFI Firmware. http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macbookproefifirmwareupdate12.html
2. Reset PRAM via the following process:
Shut down your Mac Pro , then start it back up while immediately holding the following keys: Command, Option, P and R.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the third time.
3. Erase FCP preferences files. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93832
4. unplug all GRAID. Basically FireWire VTR and Storage need separate bus, so you needs a PCIe FW card.
Usually you can hook up both FW storage and VTR on the same FireWire bus; it is not stable, but at least you can captuer or control the deck.
5. update CalDigit's FASTA-4e driver to 2.0.3 http://www.caldigit.com/support.asp
6. are you using apple original memory?
We are using Apple original RAM 8Gigs, CalDigit FASTA-4e card, CalDigit S2VR Duo 1.5TB, FCP 5.1.2, OS 10.4.8, been running a while, no problem at all.
If you still have this problem, you can try to disconnect all external devices and memory one by one to point which component causing that issue.
Power G5 Quad and Intel Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.3)

FCP Hangs On Choose Setup

I've just installed a Decklink Multibrige and now when I start up FCP the system hangs on the Choose Setup screen...
The weird part is that the FCP splash Screen stays on and the Choose Setup is grey-ed out behind it...
I can move the Choose Setup screen but can't select anything... just get the ominous "Donk" sound....
It's crazy.. the splash screen with my serial stays on... I guess it is stopping me from choosing a setup...
I've updated the firmware on the Multi Bridge and FCP is all updated...
I'm running FCP 7.0.2
Anybody else come across this before...
Cheers

1. Use Disk Utility to Repair Permissions on your system hard drive.
2. [Trash Final Cut Pro preference files|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9756086&#9756086].
3. Restart the computer.

FCP hangs then won't fully quit

I've been having some buggy issues with my FCP recently. Sometimes it hangs and when i try to force quit, the windows will close, but the little light underneath the icon in the dock stays lit as if it's still running. I cannot restart FCp with out restarting my computer, but when this happens it lags the restart so that i have to do a power kill restart.
any suggestions, is there a process in Activity Monitor that i should be looking at?
thanks

Open the DISK UTILITY app in the UTILITIES folder and Repair Permissions and Repair disk.
Shane

FCP hangs when speeding up AVCHD video.

Just what the title says. I import a large MTS file and start a new project. Everything is fine until I try to speed the video up whether that be 2x, 4x, 8x, etc. If I remove the audio it all works again. So it seems the audio is really causing issues when trying to speed up the video. What I am trying to do is speed the video up and maintain the audio pitch and I do have that checked, but my late 2013 Retina MacBook Pro i7 quad 2.6GHz 16GB 512GB SSD laptop gets very upset. Also, I have noticed by using the Activity Monitor that the process that speeds video up only uses one thread to do so which is highly disappointing since this is a very intensive operation. Is this a bug and is anyone else experiencing this?

The Original Media folder definitely has the .mts file and the Transcoded Media has the .mov files.
Tracked it down and it was me not being patient. If I try to accelerate the video right after I import the video and not wait for the background tasks to complete (I am guessing the transcoding of the video after the import in this case) FCPX hangs pretty hard. Sometimes it recovers after a long wait, but never fully acts normal after that. If I wait for the background tasks to complete and the meter reaches 100% all is good. I can understand my MacBook Pro being upset when the Activity Monitor looks like this and I am trying to load more on top of it.
I would say this is taking full use of my late 2013 MacBook Pro's quad core i7 2.6GHz CPU. 8 threads screaming and on-board fans whistling. Poor little guy.

FCP will not start not even a splash screen

I updated my 15" MacBook Pro to OSX 10.6.6 and now none of my Final Cut Pro projects will launch there is not even a splash screen that pops up. When I right click the FCP icon in the dock the only option it gives is to force quit. Has anyone heard of this happening in relation to an OS update?

Okay. I finally got FCS 2 apps and the App Store to coexist, but not without considerable trial and error. There is definitely some bad blood between 10.6.6 and FCS 2 apps. I haven't been able to pinpoint the exact problem since the behavior I experienced with FCP and Compressor was very inconsistent, but I do have some solutions that might work. I don't guarantee they'll all work as they did for me, but it's worth a shot.
1) Try launching FCP and waiting as long as you can when it hangs. Several times, if I waited long enough, the splash screen would magically appear and everything would start up as normal, even after a full minute or so.
2) Delete the Final Cut Pro System ID file and re-enter your serial number after launching FCP. Make sure you have your serial number handy before you try this. The System ID file is located in ~/Library/Application Support/ProApps/. Deleting this file allowed the serial dialogue to come up, and after entering the serial, FCP launched successfully.
3) If you have the time and patience, I highly recommend a totally clean install of 10.6 Snow Leopard and using the 10.6.6 Combo Update to get up to date. I managed to get a working Final Cut Pro and Compressor using this method, even though it was a pain in the ***. Using the Migration Assistant to transfer your files over will not break FCS2 apps. As a precaution, I did not transfer over any of my System Settings with the Migration Assistant. You can find the 10.6.6 Combo update here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1349
From my tests, I think there is some problem in 10.6.6 with how OS X displays custom dialogue boxes, such as the kind that drop down from the menu-bar or FCS's custom dialogue boxes and splash screens. I get hangs in MAS when it tries to display the Apple ID login and FCS upon launching. The behavior is inconsistent, sometimes hanging for 30 seconds, other times indefinitely, and I don't have the technical expertise to understand why. However, I've ruled out a disk error through a clean bill of health from disk utils and running the same OS config from two different hard drives.
Here's what I did:
1. Verified internal hard drive and made a SuperDuper backup of my internal hard drive to an external drive.
2. Wiped internal hard drive, installed 10.6 Snow Leopard, and installed Final Cut Studio from disks.
3. Installed the 10.6.5 combo update. Used Software Update to get all software up to date, but unchecked the 10.6.6 update.
Tested FCP: hang on startup.
4. Deleted the System ID file.
Tested FCP: asked for serial number, then completed launch.
Tested FCP again: launched with no problem.
Tested Compressor: launched with no problem.
5. I wanted to test the System ID fix on my old setup. I booted to SuperDuper backup (10.6.6 from Software Update) and deleted the System ID file.
Tested FCP: hang on startup.
6. Booted to clean-install (now at 10.6.5) and applied the 10.6.6 combo update.
Tested FCP: hang on startup
7. Deleted the System ID file.
Tested FCP: asked for serial number, then completed launch.
Tested FCP: initially hung on startup. However, after about 30 seconds, it surprisingly launched with no issues.
Tested FCP: took about 30 seconds to launch (no hang), but eventually displayed splash and launched with no issues.
Tested Compressor: same as above.
8. Migrated data from SuperDuper backup to 10.6.6 clean-install on internal drive using Migration Assistant. Excluded "Settings." I also deleted the System ID before testing.
Tested FCP: asked for serial number, then completed launch.
Tested Compressor: launched with no problems.
Tested FCP: launched with no problems.
9. I then launched the freshly installed Mac App Store. I clicked "install" for Evernote, and the app hung. However, after a moment, it displayed the Apple ID login drop-down from the menu bar. I entered my credentials and Evernote installed.
Tested FCP: initially hung on startup, then launched without a problem.
Tested FCP: launched without a problem.
Tested Compressor: launched without a problem
10. I decided to try one last little test. I deleted Evernote and launched both the Mac App Store and FCP at the same time. FCP hung on startup. I clicked "install" for Evernote again, and App Store hung. After a moment, though, FCP completed its launch AND the App Store drop-down asking me for my Apple ID appeared at the same time. This interested me, since it seemed to suggest that these were related incidents.
I have some process samples from activity monitor for when FCP hung, if someone would find them useful, but I can't read them at all. Console showed the following whenever FCP hung:
objc[192]: Class OutputTexture is implemented in both /Library/Application Support/ProApps/Internal Plug-Ins/ProFX/FxPlugWrapper.plugin/Contents/MacOS/FxPlugWrapper and /Library/Application Support/ProApps/Internal Plug-Ins/ProFX/QCMotionPatch.plugin/Contents/MacOS/QCMotionPatch. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined. 1/11/11 1:18:36 PM [0x0-0x15015].com.apple.FinalCutPro[192]
objc[192]: Class objCWrapper is implemented in both /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Pro and /Applications/Motion.app/Contents/Frameworks/Ozone.framework/Ozone. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined. 1/11/11 1:18:37 PM [0x0-0x15015].com.apple.FinalCutPro[192]
objc[202]: Class MIOTimecodeField is implemented in both /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Pro and /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Plugins/ProAppsIntegration.bundle/Contents/MacOS/ProApps Integration. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined. 1/11/11 1:20:24 PM [0x0-0x18018].com.apple.FinalCutPro[202]
objc[202]: Class MIOTimecodeFieldTextView is implemented in both /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Pro and /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Plugins/ProAppsIntegration.bundle/Contents/MacOS/ProApps Integration. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined. 1/11/11 1:20:24 PM [0x0-0x18018].com.apple.FinalCutPro[202]
objc[202]: Class MIOTimecodeFieldFormatter is implemented in both /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Pro and /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Plugins/ProAppsIntegration.bundle/Contents/MacOS/ProApps Integration. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined. 1/11/11 1:20:24 PM [0x0-0x18018].com.apple.FinalCutPro[202]
objc[202]: Class MIOTimecodeSearchFormatter is implemented in both /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Pro and /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Plugins/ProAppsIntegration.bundle/Contents/MacOS/ProApps Integration. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined. 1/11/11 1:20:24 PM [0x0-0x18018].com.apple.FinalCutPro[202]
objc[202]: Class ProMetadataQTMDStorage is implemented in both /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/MIO.framework/Versions/A/MIO and /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Plugins/QTM Reader.bundle/Contents/MacOS/QTM Reader. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined. 1/11/11 1:20:24 PM [0x0-0x18018].com.apple.FinalCutPro[202]
objc[202]: Class OutputTexture is implemented in both /Library/Application Support/ProApps/Internal Plug-Ins/ProFX/FxPlugWrapper.plugin/Contents/MacOS/FxPlugWrapper and /Library/Application Support/ProApps/Internal Plug-Ins/ProFX/QCMotionPatch.plugin/Contents/MacOS/QCMotionPatch. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined. 1/11/11 1:20:27 PM [0x0-0x18018].com.apple.FinalCutPro[202]
objc[202]: Class objCWrapper is implemented in both /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Pro and /Applications/Motion.app/Contents/Frameworks/Ozone.framework/Ozone. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined. 1/11/11 1:20:27 PM [0x0-0x18018].com.apple.FinalCutPro[202]

FCP crashes in thumbnail view.

Hi. First post here... Have serious problem with viewing clips in thumbnailview.
A few is okay but when its about 40 or more fcp hangs, umbrella and crashes. Anyone with a similar problem?
Kind regards
Petter - Fabuloufilm

standard reply for these kinds of odd things is: trash the preferences. They seem to get corrupted fairly easily, and it's an easy thing to try.
Information here, helpfully provided by Jon Chappell:
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/blog/posts/howto_trashpreferences.html

Send to FCP after reconforming

The problem in steps
- I sent a sequence to Color for grading
- Graded all shots
- Rendered
- Sent to FCP
- Replaced some media in the FCP sequence
- Exported as XML
- Back in Color, reconformed the current project (the one sent to FCP) against the XML exported in the previous step
- Graded the new shots
- Sent to FCP
- FCP only shows the progress bar up to 50%, then hangs. Clicking on the button does nothing.
The only workaround is to kill FCP.
Started with fresh FCP prefs, but still hangs when sending back from Color to FCP.
The only option was to save all grades and Send to Color the sequence, then apply all saved grades, then render and Send to FCP.
Conclusion: Sending back to FCP after reconforming hangs FCP.
I can't determine what XML command is hanging FCP
Any good idea from anybody?
Cheers
Esteban

This is what I get in the Console when FCP hangs
23/12/10 00:57:32 Final Cut Pro[4012] HIToolbox: ignoring exception '* -[NSKeyedUnarchiver initForReadingWithData:]: incomprehensible archive (0x62, 0x70, 0x6c, 0x69, 0x73, 0x74, 0x30, 0x30)' that raised inside Carbon event dispatch
0 CoreFoundation 0x958c66ba __raiseError + 410
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x98d08509 objcexceptionthrow + 56
2 CoreFoundation 0x958c63e8 +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 136
3 CoreFoundation 0x958c635a +[NSException raise:format:] + 58
4 Foundation 0x92aee65d -[NSKeyedUnarchiver initForReadingWithData:] + 3722
5 Final Cut Pro 0x0051d321 _ZN17KGPortValueObject9ImportXMLEP9KGDictInt + 231
6 XML Support 0x0ce6fb53 LookupKeyInTranslationMap + 102641
7 XML Support 0x0ce700ea LookupKeyInTranslationMap + 104072
8 XML Support 0x0ce70948 LookupKeyInTranslationMap + 106214
9 XML Support 0x0ce72bbe LookupKeyInTranslationMap + 115036
10 XML Support 0x0ce7a714 LookupKeyInTranslationMap + 146610
11 XML Support 0x0ce6bb9d LookupKeyInTranslationMap + 86331
12 XML Support 0x0ce6e4cd LookupKeyInTranslationMap + 96875
13 XML Support 0x0ce7c31c LookupKeyInTranslationMap + 153786
14 XML Support 0x0ce7c888 LookupKeyInTranslationMap + 155174
15 XML Support 0x0ce7c7e9 LookupKeyInTranslationMap + 155015
16 XML Support 0x0ce7c7e9 LookupKeyInTranslationMap + 155015
17 XML Support 0x0ce7d4b3 InstantiateFCPObjects + 3005
18 XML Support 0x0ce30769 _Z15PluginMainEntryllP9KGDictIntPv + 20239
19 XML Support 0x0ce2f490 _Z15PluginMainEntryllP9KGDictIntPv + 15414
20 Final Cut Pro 0x002444b7 _Z20pKGPluginSendMessagePc12KGPluginTypellP9KGDictInt + 81
21 Final Cut Pro 0x004116f5 Z19ImportXMLToDocumentPK6AEDescPSl + 693
22 AE 0x93e43f58 Z20aeDispatchAppleEventPK6AEDescPSmPh + 166
23 AE 0x93e43e57 ZL25dispatchEventAndSendReplyPK6AEDescPS + 43
24 AE 0x93e43d61 aeProcessAppleEvent + 197
25 HIToolbox 0x95cca323 AEProcessAppleEvent + 50
26 HIToolbox 0x95e4b30a AEProcessEvent + 160
27 HIToolbox 0x95d5ca26 _ZN15HIStdAppHandler11HandleEventEP25OpaqueEventHandlerCallRefR12TCarbonEvent + 206
28 HIToolbox 0x95d5db14 _ZN13TEventHandler12EventHandlerEP25OpaqueEventHandlerCallRefP14OpaqueEventRefP v + 64
29 HIToolbox 0x95c95f2f _ZL23DispatchEventToHandlersP14EventTargetRecP14OpaqueEventRefP14HandlerCallRec + 1567
30 HIToolbox 0x95c951f6 _ZL30SendEventToEventTargetInternalP14OpaqueEventRefP20OpaqueEventTargetRefP14H andlerCallRec + 411
31 HIToolbox 0x95c95055 SendEventToEventTargetWithOptions + 58
32 HIToolbox 0x95cc9bb0 _ZL29ToolboxEventDispatcherHandlerP25OpaqueEventHandlerCallRefP14OpaqueEventRef Pv + 3006
33 HIToolbox 0x95c96380 _ZL23DispatchEventToHandlersP14EventTargetRecP14OpaqueEventRefP14HandlerCallRec + 2672
34 HIToolbox 0x95c951f6 _ZL30SendEventToEventTargetInternalP14OpaqueEventRefP20OpaqueEventTargetRefP14H andlerCallRec + 411
35 HIToolbox 0x95cb79bb SendEventToEventTarget + 52
36 HIToolbox 0x95e40cc3 ToolboxEventDispatcher + 86
37 HIToolbox 0x95e40dfb RunApplicationEventLoop + 243
38 Final Cut Pro 0x001539d1 _Z11KGMainEventPv + 51
39 Final Cut Pro 0x002c1278 main + 54
40 Final Cut Pro 0x00002d5b _start + 209
41 Final Cut Pro 0x00002c89 start + 41
42 ??? 0x00000002 0x0 + 2
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UAD-1 Card causing hang on start-up

I have 3 UAD-1 Cards installed on my Mac pro, which work fine with logic and DP. However, when I try to open FCP 5 it gives me an error that my UAD-1 cards are not installed properly and FCP hangs. Any thoughts?

First: is FCP5 supposed to work with this OS? I know 5.1 and above are ok for Intel, but you're working with a version of fcp that was developed for at least a couple of OS's back. You might try creating an alternate boot disk without the drivers for the card for working in fcp. Don't know if it'll work but worth a shot.

Share to mobileme / username and password will not accepted

Hello,
I'm using the localiced german version of FCP, so I'm not sure which are the correct words in the dialog boxes.
When I try to share to mobileme with the option "visible for everyone or only for me" everything is okay, but when I wont to share to a specific person using the last option in the dropdown-menu "Names and Passwords"? (in german "Namen und Kennwörter bearbeiten..." and entering a username and a password for this specific person FCP hangs for a few seconds and then just show me the option "visible for everyone".
FCP did not accepting my input. Trashing the preferences did not resolve the problem. iPhoto is able to connect to mobileme also with sharing to a specific person.

I've tested it now with iMovie with success. In the sharing options all my previously entered users with there password are shown. But in FCP all are gone. What can i do?
Anyone?

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