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.
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