FCS hanging on one FCP project.

We have one FCP project in a production that when it is select the FCS app hangs. The actual project has now been deleted in finder but FCS sill does the same thing. Any ideas about how to delete it out of the data base?

According to this site Here's a way to delete assets from Final Cut Server (FCSvr) using the command line tools.
http://www.xplatformconsulting.com/2009/11/25/final-cut-server-1-5-1-–-fcsvr_cli ent-delete/
Command syntax:
delete [ --confirm --use_lds --asset_only --erase_children --xml ]
Deleting both the asset the files
sudo ./fcsvr_client delete –confirm /asset/4616
Deleting just the asset from the database
sudo ./fcsvr_client delete –confirm –asset_only/asset/4616
Hope this helps.
Nicholas Stokes
XPlatform Consulting

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FCS is only deleting my FCP project file and not linked assets. please help.

When deleting a FCP project from FCS it does not give me the option to delete all linked media. It only deletes the FCP project file leaving me to delete all related media manually. In the user guide it says it should give me the option to delete the project and all files automatically but this doesn't happen on our system. Does anyone know why? and how to turn this function on?

A bug that will never be fixed. You have to delete the associated assets manually.

FCP very slow on just one specific project

Hi,
I'm using FCP 5.1.4 on a Pwermac G5 2 GHZ, 3 GB RAM. I have edited on this for over a year without any problems. Now, one particular project is giving me problems. I get the rainbow wheel every time I do something even as simple as placing a still photo in the timeline.
I am in unlimited RT, DV/DVCPRO - NTSC, aspect ratio 3:2, Lower (even) field dominance, NTSC - CCIR 601 Pixel Aspect Ratio, 29.97 editing time base.
I have captured in DVNTSC 48K and that is the same as my sequence preset.
Video Processing: Always Render in RGB
All of my media is on one external hard drive. I have saved my project file to my internal hard drive.
I was editing a different project yesterday from the same hard drive, using the same settings and had no problems. but this one project is the only one I have had difficulty with. It's ridiculous. I can't even drag a still photo into the timeline without getting the rainbow wheel.
Help? Please? I need to finish this project!
Thanks!

Hi:
I opened your post with that first idea: too big stills. And in the end of all your posts I found it !
First, forget about dpi in video: just think in pixels.
You must size your still just as big as you need to zoom in and take as reference size your project settings. I mean, for SD NTSC a 100% is 720x480. If you need to zoom to double size a part of the image, you don't need anythiung bigger that 1440x560. Do you get the idea?
Any extra pixels you give your image beyond what you JUST need, you're only giving extra work to FCP with no advantage in quality. Worst, FCP os very bad rescaling!
OK. If you need so big images in your project and don't to deal with the extra processor work while editing, just create a project and an individual sequence for each still you need to animate. Export ecah animation with your final project settings (self contained if you want) and use them in a new project. The exported "sequences" will behave as standard video with no so much work for your computer.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

FCPX 10.0.7 hangs when loading multiple projects - a non-destructive work around

FCPX 10.0.7 hangs when loading multiple projects - a non-destructive work around....
Hi Guys, I upgraded from FCPX 10.0.6 to 10.0.78 and discovered to my immense frustration that many of my 100+ FCPX projects would not load.
Symptom:
FCPX 10.0.7 appears to hang ("spinning beachball") with either high CPU% on a single core or with 1-2% CPU busy (activity monitor.app) when a FINAL CUT PROJECT is selected. No logs error information in /var/logs ..hmm
notices that the "status circle" spins around endlessly.
Actvity Monitor.app shows "Final Cut Pro (Not Responding)
and also I notice in some cases that an OEM filter ("NEAT VIDEO NOISE REDUCTION") is in progress to be loaded. FCPX V10.0.7 must be FORCED QUITtted to remove it from system.
History: Upgraded FCPX from V10.0.6 to V10.0.07.
"FINAL CUT EVENTS" and "FINAL CUT PROJECTS" on a single file system on SAS 16TB disk array (768MB/sec read via AJA system test) and 60% utilised capacity… FCP EVENTS has 400 events in it .. some 5.2TB of Prores essence etc .. all works fine! (i.e. the storage system is first class and is NOT the issue)
32GB of RAM on MAC PRO 2009 Nehalem 16 x Vcore with ATI 5780 card and ATTO HBA's (i.e. plenty of resources!)
As usual with any "upgrade" to FCPX 10.0.? all the EVENT objects need to be upgraded. In my case this takes an hour or two.. so I do that when asleep.
After experiencing above, I restored the FCPX EVENTS LIbrary of that file system from LTO4 tape archive (BRU-PE ) and still had the same issues as above.
WORKAROUND:
FORCEd QUIT FCPX V10.0.7
RENAMEd "/volumes/some_file_system_volume/Final Cut Projects" to "/volumes/some_file_system_volume/Final Cut Projects_original"
created (make) a new "/volumes/some_file_system_volume/Final Cut Projects" (use finder)
For each project !!! in "/volumes/some_file_system_volume/Final Cut Projects_original", (do one project at a time!!!)
MOVE "/volumes/some_file_system_volume/Final Cut Projects_original/one_fcpx_projext_nnnn_folder" to "/volumes/some_file_system_volume/Final Cut Projects"
Make sure you move ONLY one project at a time. If you have a subfolder of projects, please do each project one at a time (serially!)
Launch FCPX V10.0.7 and BE PATIENT!!! .. DONT click or fiddle with the UI.. it seems when you intervene it locks up as well…
Let FCPX V10.0.7 settle….
select the project you just added above and RELINK any objects it needs. Thumbnails and proxies will be rendered again.. just be patient
wait until ALL the rendering as stopped.
QUIT FCPX V10.0.7
(now if FCPX locks up, just force it out and start again as above).
repeat for all projects in "/volumes/some_file_system_volume/Final Cut Projects_original" (go to step 4 ad do until all projects moved)
When all is COMPLETED MAKE SURE YOU ARCHIVE an instance (or make a backup ) of "/volumes/some_file_system_volume/Final Cut Projects"
If this procedure has worked the folder "/volumes/some_file_system_volume/Final Cut Projects_original" will have zero (nill, none) projects in it.
I have managed to restore ALL my "/volumes/some_file_system_volume/Final Cut Projects" this xmas between drinking etc. I'm satisfied that its all ok.
Other issues:
use DISK WARRIOR or TT PRO 6 to make sure that the file system volume where your "/volumes/some_file_system_volume/Final Cut Projects" are is physically ok. I noticed some entries in file system's volume table that represented objects in "/volumes/some_file_system_volume/Final Cut Projects" were at fault when I used these utilities… FWIW.
SUMMARY: yes this took ages to d, however luckily I had everything in at least 3 instances in an archive which has saved me many time in the old FCP& and prior days… it was just a matter of time to put it back together.
I put this outage down to may be my own impatience when I first fired up FCPX 10.0.7 after the upgrade.
I'm interested if this workaround is helpful to others and in addtiion if others have a more satisfactory remedy.
HTH
warwick
Hong Kong

Hi Eb, yeah I could not see any "memory leak" or unusual consumption of REAL memory whose less availability would cause excessive PAGEing and SWAPping as seen in the Activty Monitor.app
I watch this carefully especially the use of REAL MEMORY by 3rd Paryy apps. BTW there are a few that cause ALLOCATED but NOT USED memory (blue in the A.M.app UI). Simply a unix PURGE command can release that memory and help clean up the PAGE and VM swap files (its alleged!).
Yes, you may be might with the element of "Luck" involved. I would add though, that having MULTIPLE project displaying in the STORYLINE window and loading always caused my FCP 10.0.7 jam up at startup with h symtoms and observations I described.
TIP: I might also add that for a super speedy launch of FCPX one may also emply setting each PROJECT's UI to show only AUDIO thus negating the need to contstruct or reneder out a PREVIEW ui in each clip in the storyline.
Your/Apples suggestion of the movememt (rename) of "Final Cut Pro Projects" to "Final Cut Pro Projects Hidden" is similar to what I proposed above to stop FCPX 10.0.7 accessing and building it up at startup. This workaround has been useful inthe past as well.
ALso one might also get the stick out and remove (delete/rm) the ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.FinalCut.savedState in one's home ~/Library so that FCPX wont do such a neat job reinstating FCPX last time you crashed it... This has been helpful also in diagnosing my issues.
Lastly I have noticed that:
impatience clicking on the FCPX UI when in the unstable state causes it to lock up with NO visible CPU% busy.... as if its waiting on something which is usually me MEMTERMing it via FORCE QUIT and
the projects where I have employed the NEAT VIDEO Noise Reduction OEM filter for FCPX seem to exasserbate the PROJECT loading issues when several PROJECTS are available at FCPX startup time.
As of yesterday I have some 400+ EVENTS Final Cut Pro Events and 130+ projects of varying compexites in a single file system on Final Cut Pro Projects all working fine and as good as gold again!
Oh and one more thing, I had to RE-RENDER many projects of them again... strange as the FCP PROJECT library was renstated from a recent LTO archive as of V10.0.6 FCPX.. strange that...I would have expected if the projects and events were 10.0.6/7 compatable as proposed by Tom, that this would not be necessary... hmm straneg that
I'll monitor this thread.
Thanks for your comments lads!

FCP7.03 hangs/freezes while loading project

I have a Final Cut project file for this feature film I've been working on forever. The project has stopped opening. FCP freezes immediately after the 'offline files' dialogue box. (doesn't matter whether I reconnect media or not.) It thinks for a second, then spinning wheel of death for 5 minutes, then it crashes. I get a KGCore error, which FCS Maintenance interprets as 'out of memory.' Obviously this error isn't the cause, but a symptom.
I just got my computer back from the shop, with leopard 10.5.x. After I had installed all my applications / plugins, something happened, where from that point on I'd get the crash I just described. I troubleshot all the applications, plugins, etc. Uninstalled everything and reinstalled it one at a time. I was able to open the project once after a fresh FCP install, then when I tried to open the same project again seconds later, it froze again with the same problem. Then the same crash every time. I updated FCS, and the first time I tried to open the project it worked fine. Seconds later when I tried to replicate the result, I got the exact same crash. From that point on, the project crashed every time. I ran MemTest and it came out good. Also, last week I had my harddrive, superdrive, battery and screen replaced, and everything else passed the Apple Tech's inspection, so I am confident this is not a hardware issue.
So I reformatted the computer -> 10.6.4. I reinstalled FCS3 and CS4 and Magic Bullet looks for FCP & AE. Everything worked perfectly for 3 days. Then last night I installed Automatic Duck Free XML Exporter [FCP] and this afternoon I installed Automatic Duck Pro Import AE [AE]. Now I suddenly I can't open the FCP project again. Exact same error. Freezes immediately after the offline files dialogue box every time. I am able to open other FCP projects though.
Today I tried uninstalling the Free XML exporter, uninstalling Pro Import AE, trashing my preferences, repairing disc permissions, setting my scratch discs to external drives, and I uninstalled and reinstalled CS4 and FCS3 without any plugins. After the fresh install, Final Cut opened the project perfectly the first time, and then gave me exact same crash every subsequent time I opened the project.
I talked to tech support at automatic duck and the guy said the only file that could possibly affect FCP is the xml exporter bundle in final cut pro plugins. It made sense to me that that was the problem, but at this point I've not only uninstalled that plugin to no avail, but I've uninstalled and reinstalled CS4 and FCS3 too, so I'm thinking its something bigger than that.
I can't wrap my head around whats going on. I'd be more than happy to reformat the machine again as long as I know it will work afterwards. I just can't spend days working on this only to have it implode right afterwards.

I have not tried exporting xmls for each sequence. Its a good last resort for sure, but the thing is that this project is huge. Including the sequence backups for my rough cut and fine cut (which I really don't need), there's got to be 600+ sequences.
I can't figure out how to post attachments here, so I'm including a segment of the 3 crash logs my machine's generated since the last reformat. Please advise on the protocol for posting crash logs. Thanks.
Xx Crash 1 xX
PlugIn Path: /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/Frameworks/KGCore.framework/Versions/A/KGCore
PlugIn Identifier: KGCore
PlugIn Version: ??? (???)
Date/Time: 2010-10-06 01:51:38.461 -0700
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.4 (10F569)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report: 2831 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 1
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 731 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 1
Anonymous UUID: 2967230C-64E1-4949-9579-C1EEEFB884E0
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000004
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Xx Crash 2 xX
PlugIn Path: /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/Frameworks/KGCore.framework/Versions/A/KGCore
PlugIn Identifier: KGCore
PlugIn Version: ??? (???)
Date/Time: 2010-10-06 02:01:03.255 -0700
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.4 (10F569)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report: 558 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 1
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 504 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 1
Anonymous UUID: 2967230C-64E1-4949-9579-C1EEEFB884E0
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000004
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Xx Crash 3 xX
Date/Time: 2010-10-06 02:29:19.260 -0700
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.4 (10F569)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

I have Video camera movies that are HD format.. I am doing editing work on them using Final Cut Pro, but using DV PAL format for the projects I am editing. When I then tried to copy my work done in FCP Project that's originally DV PAL , into a new FCP Pro

I have Video camera movies that are HD format.. I am doing editing work on them using Final Cut Pro, but using DV PAL format for the projects I am editing. When I then tried to copy my work done in FCP Project that's originally DV PAL , into a new FCP Project that is HD, and tried reconnect media with original HD movies (video), the sequence project got distorted for all the text, shapes used and all.. everything changed its orientation and scale.. Is there a way by which I can preserve my work done on DV PAL and switch it preserving its proportions, scale and orientation, but on a HD project sequence?? Appreciate your help and advice..

Yes. A couple of ways that might work.
First Way
What you need to do is load one of your hd clips in the viewer and edit into a new HD sequence. Does it display correctionly?
OK, select the clip in the hd timeline and copy (command-c). Now go to the HD sequence with the material that's distorted. Select all (command-a) and paste attributes (option-v) and choose basic motion and distort. That should maek things work. What won't work is anything that you've adjusted as far as basic motion or distort in your PAL sequence. That I'm pretty sure you'll have to redo.
Second Way.
Choose your original PAL sequence and do a Media Manage changing the sequence preset to the appropriate HD paramenters with the media offline. You then should be able to reconnect these clips with your original HD media.

Recording standard dvd from completed FCP project thru DVD STUDIO PRO...

OH, kind geniuses...
it boils down to this...I'm very FCP friendly...production is done...I'm aware of "compressor" issue...one question tho
...is it easier to compress thru Quicktime movie or the
standard compressor functions when project is completed...
BOTTOM LINE...is it possible to crank out a standard DVD copy of a completed FCP project QUICKLY/ EASILY...thru
DVD STUDIO PRO? i've went thru the manuals for ALL, and am
affraid I'm reading T.M.I. into it... THE question..."is there a simple Wham-Bam-Thank You-Maam way to get a simple
DVD copy from a completed FCP project THRU, (the dreaded)
DVD STUDIO PRO??? I don't need to re-learn digital electronic theory...just crank out a gawl-dern DVD I can
present to a perspective employer that needs a FCP editor...
"much gnashing of teeth & lament",
thanks folks!
G. Tirebiter
mac G-5 Mac OS X (10.4.7) final cut studio

whoaohohohohohohoh nnnnnnneleeeee(a keith jacksonism)
silal..............
way too much info, amigo....I have one track (2min total...
including "live-type" graphics)....we don' have no marks....
we don' need no marks....we don' got to cho you any steenking marks!!!!! (Alfonso Bedoya from "treasure of Sierra Madre"..adaptation)...I love that guy/scene...back to the problem at hand...waaaay too involved it seems, my
friend....tho, I high 5 you for the extensive work & effort.
I'm lookin' for quick & dirty...did get a response that basically gives me that...still left out some "see spot run"
info that my "little grey cells" aren't absorbing...I'm
sure it's MY ignorance & comprehension skills that are in question here...I guess I wanna' get outa' th' gate & grab th' hole shot before I dial in my ride...like I said..."see spot run"....another try would be appreciated but not necessary...thanks for you're valuable time...
they're in.......everybody's eggs...
DOH!....
G. Tirebiter
mac G-5 Mac OS X (10.4.7) final cut studio

Sharing FCP projects between user accounts problem

Hello!
I'm working on a project with several other colleagues. Each of us has his own User account on the computer (dual G5 / 10.4.7) because we have different preferecnes regarding keyboard layouts, desktop colour etc. We would like to have our FCP project files accessible to each of us.
I have tried different approaches to solve this task, but haven't fully succeded yet (I tried creating the project file within the /Users/Shared foler; putting it into a dedicated /Users/FCPProjects folder and applying chmod/chown commands; creating a Editors group with NetInfo and assigning those foders to this group; I even tried to work around this using ACLs).
The problem is that when we click "Save All" command in FCP, we get three or four OK-only dialog boxes in a row saying "Access denied". The project file is in fact saved (I can see it by checking the Modified time in Finder), but FCP seems not to be aware of this and doesn't want to quit. It's an unpleasent situation because it allways makes us worry about losing our work.
Could someone please give us instructions on the correct procedures for resolving the issue.
Thank you
Best regards
Mato Ilijic

matoid,
ACLs should work for you, and it seems that they are. You shouldn't have to deal with the error dialogue either, so let's see if we can't get rid of it.
First, let's talk about groups. I have looked at your "step by step," and I notice that you didn't bother to change the group ownership of the "shared" folder that you created. Fine, ACLs still work, but the group ownership of "wheel" might be the cause of your error messages. ACLs are a more advanced system of access controls than the older POSIX system, but POSIX still exists, and might affect your work.
Let's assume that you have your standard users that will be using FCP placed properly into a common group. For this discussion, I'll call that group "fcpusers." Under the POSIX paradigm, any "shared" folder can be owned by any one of the users in this group, but it must have a group ownership of "fcpusers" in order to work properly for everyone. When it does, every new file or folder created in it will "inherit" that group ownership.
Now, every user on a given machine will have read access to that shared folder. If a non-member of group "fcpusers" attempts to save a file there, however, an error message is likely to appear. One other possibility is that the file is saved, but with an "unknown" group ownership. This is because of a conflict between the groups the saving user is a member of and the attempted "inheritance" from the enclosing folder.
I want you to try the following. Please do this exactly as I outline it:
1) Create a new group in Netinfo Manager. Duplicate the "admin" group. Change the name of the duplicate to "fcpusers," then delete the "realname," "generateduid," and "smb_sid" properties. Change the GID to "101." Select the "users" property, then choose Directory>Insert Value. Type the short name of one of your users. Repeat this procedure for every user of FCP. Select any admin users in this group who will not be using FCP, and click the "Delete" icon. Finally, choose Domain>Save Changes.
2) Create a new folder in /Users/Shared. For this discussion we will assume that you will call it "FCP_Data." Further, we will assume that one of your FCP users is named "usera" (your terminology ;-)). Open Terminal. Since you seem to be well-versed in the use of Terminal, I will simply post the commands needed:
<pre style="overflow:auto; font-family: 'Monaco'; font-size: 10px">sudo chown usera:fcpusers /Users/Shared/FCP_Data
sudo chmod g+w /Users/Shared/FCP_Data</pre>
3) Before anyone begins saving files in this directory, make sure that their umask is changed using TinkerTool. Also, I recommend that all media gets saved here, too. I'm not sure how close FCP is to iMovie, if it doesn't save all data in a "package," but it is likely that media is being referenced using "placeholders." If this is the case, and media for a given project is scattered all over the file system, there could indeed be ownership issues. If media needs to be on externals, this same "shared" folder can be created there. Just make sure that #1, the volume has "ownership and permissions" in effect, and #2 all media is kept within the "shared" directory structure.
You must use TinkerTool to change the umask such that members of the group have read/write permission. TinkerTool doesn't specifically say this, but the corresponding umask is "002" (the OS X default is "022"). BTW, umask is subtracted from the "full permissions" value of "666" when saving non-executable files ("777" for folders and executables).
Once you have a properly configured "shared" folder and a proper umask in place, your users can begin to populate the shared directory. If any existing projects are to be added, they must be copied by a user into the shared directory, not simply moved. Only when a copy is made will the new copy inherit the proper group ownership. Just to be sure, I will include one more set of commands to use, once the shared directory has been populated:
<pre style="overflow:auto; font-family: 'Monaco'; font-size: 10px">sudo chown -R usera:fcpusers /Users/Shared/FCP_Data
sudo chmod -R g+w /Users/Shared/FCP_Data</pre>
Please follow these instructions carefully, then report the results. This should work, and without using ACLs.
Scott

Need help in exporting my FCP project to work on my laptop

I'm taking a long trip and I'd like to export all that's needed to work on my FCP project from my PowerMac G5 to my Powerbook Pro. I could really use some advice on this.
1. It's most likely that all of my files will not fit on the Powerbook hard drive (half is devoted to Windows). I know there are issues with importing footage to a firewire drive, but what if my footage is already imported? Can I get a tiny firewire external drive and move all my video files to work with? Or will I still be at a risk of dropped frames or other problems? Can I even get a USB drive for this? WD makes a great tiny one. I've got a huge Maxtor firewire drive, but I need one that is portable and doesn't need external power. Any recommendations? Is this just a stupid question and there's no way this is possible?
2. Will I run into a problem of installing my Final Cut Studio on my Powerbook Pro since it's already installed on my PowerMac? I guess if I absolutely had to, I could uninstall FCP from my Powermac, then install it on my Powerbook, then uninstall it from my powerbook when i'm done with my trip, then reinstall it on my PowerMac. But it'd be much simpler if I could just install it on my Powerbook and leave the already installed version on my PowerMac alone.
I'd love some advice with this. Thanks!

I'm taking a long trip and I'd like to export all
that's needed to work on my FCP project from my
PowerMac G5 to my Powerbook Pro. I could really use
some advice on this.
First, do you mean Macbook Pro? Also what version of FCP are you running? If you have a Macbook Pro then you must have FCP 5.1 in order for it to run on your notebook.
1. It's most likely that all of my files will not fit
on the Powerbook hard drive (half is devoted to
Windows). I know there are issues with importing
footage to a firewire drive, but what if my footage
is already imported? Can I get a tiny firewire
external drive and move all my video files to work
with? Or will I still be at a risk of dropped frames
or other problems? Can I even get a USB drive for
this? WD makes a great tiny one. I've got a huge
Maxtor firewire drive, but I need one that is
portable and doesn't need external power. Any
recommendations? Is this just a stupid question and
there's no way this is possible?
You are correct in assuming that you need not put your media files on your system drive. Get a small Firewire drive that is bus powered, I recommend on from G-Technologies, maker of the G-Raid.
2. Will I run into a problem of installing my Final
Cut Studio on my Powerbook Pro since it's already
installed on my PowerMac? I guess if I absolutely had
to, I could uninstall FCP from my Powermac, then
install it on my Powerbook, then uninstall it from my
powerbook when i'm done with my trip, then reinstall
it on my PowerMac. But it'd be much simpler if I
could just install it on my Powerbook and leave the
already installed version on my PowerMac alone.
This depends on what version you are using. I believe that you can have 5.1 installed on both a desktop and notebook with one license. However, be sure to check the license that came with your software just to be sure. If you do not have 5.1 (and you don't have a MBP but instead a Powerbook (not Pro) then you will have to uninstall and reinstall.
Once you have these issues worked out it is a matter of transferring your project files to your new FW drive.
2 - PowerMac G5 2.0Ghz DP Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1- Mac Mini

FCP project opens slowly

My FCP7 project takes a very long time to open up (compared to others that do not possess any Motion4 interaction such as the stuff detailed below).
My project takes about 10 minutes to finally open up completely where others (such as wedding videos or photo histories) open almost immediately.
I'm wondering if my Motion4 interaction has anything to do with this. Here are some details on what I'm working with....
I'm working on a project where I'm going from FCP7 to Motion4 quite often (select clip> send to Motion). I do that several times in a 3 minute project (I'd say I have about 4 or 5 clips - probably 10 seconds each, on average). In motion, I'm working in a 720x480 project (video footage only) and I am building custom masks to cut out an interview subject in the frame) We don't have green screen here.
From there I'm tracking all points on that mask for the duration of the clip. As you know this is pretty processor intensive - especially with a stock video card like we have.
When working in the project, some things take more time than others (which is to be expected) but things seem normal there. No crashes or freeze ups of any kind.
However, it's when I go to open up the project the following day that it takes exceedingly long to get up and running.
Is this due to the excessive Motion4 interaction within FCP7? Would it be better to create these masks as individual projects instead of using the FCP to Motion back to FCP workflow?
Thanks for any input.
Steve
Message was edited by: Steve Delasantos

I haven't trashed the preferences yet. I'll try that from home tonight.
I didn't have any capture issues when I originally imported the footage a few years ago. I managed to cut almost the entire project without issues. The only thing that really changed was upgrading to FCP 7 and Snow Leopard. Since then, this one particular project (also my oldest project) has been having issues.

FCP Project closes and Compressor only gives black render

hi
apologies if this has been covered, my extensive search of about 10 seconds found nothing.
Recently on certain projects when i try to export via compressor two things happen. Firstly the rendered file is made up of black only, audio is fine though. And secondly the fcp project closes itself, leaving only the temp project open, that creates itself when you export via compressor. The one sequence in this temp project is the one i want to export and it plays fine in the timeline. Of course this is annoying since the project closes itself without asking if you want to save.
I do have some odd footage in the project. It came from some dodgy video camera device, but I had converted them to dv specs. Mind you none of these clips are in the sequence in question.
any ideas anyone
thanks
adam

exporting to compressor directly from FCP will re-process all your rendered material, so if your sequence has lots of filters, generators, stills or non-native clips, this can greatly add to the time it takes.
Also, exporting video for iPod most likely involves changing the frame size and frame rate, and possibly pixel aspect ratio (are those files square pixel?) Depending on the frame Controls settings for the preset you are using, this can make it take a lot longer.

FCP7: How do I save 5 small separate Scenes, saved by project, to only one final project?

Specs: FCP7 Software
MCH70 Panasonic Camera
Using a college, Media Lab, Desktop Mac.
I captured files but had some trouble at first.
Then I saved each Scene (in my short 5 minute total project) as separate projects.
I have edited them and they all have separate sequences in each saved project.
Now I want to put them altogether and make one Master Project (so I can see if I exceeded my 5 minute project restriction).
I tried importing them but no luck. Then I copied all the sequences into one New Project, or maybe they just moved, not sure.
Don't know if that was the right thing to do or what the next step is. I am worried about damaging my already edited files.
I heard ultimately in other forums that I might be able to copy the individual clips into one folder and then import them into a new project?

You have each "scene" edited as a separate project?
This is not a useful way to work.
To combine all the sequences into one ("Master" or "Show") project:
Create a new project with matching project settings to all your previous work. Give this project a unique name and save it.
Now go to the menu File > Open and navigate to and open your "scene" project(s). Repeat until all are open.
You will see they appear as tabs in the FCP Browser:
Once all the projects are open, you can go to the timeline of (for example) the first scene, click anywhere in the timeline and then select all (Command + A), and then copy the contents of that timeline (Command + C). Switch to the timeline of your new project and paste it there (Command + V). Once done, make sure the playhead on that new timeline is at the end of the pasted content, then do the same with the next scene. Repeat as necessary, until you have all the content in one timeline. and then check your total duration.
Save everything.
MtD

Upload FCP Projects and Associated Media to a Production

Hi,
This sounds very silly but I`m really disappointed and can`t figured out how to do it.
Is there a way to upload a *.fcp project and associate NOT ONLY the project but ALSO the Media that this project contains?
In other words, if I upload a FCP project and choose a Production to be associated the production is created but ONLY the FCP Project Asset is inside this production, not the whole medias.
A scan production (for the FCP file) also doesn`t work.
What works is uploading all media and associating to a production or do a Scan production into a directory with medias. But my FCP and Medias are in distinct places and a thought that FCP project could help me cleaning the Media directories (by uploading the project and after all medias are catalogued archiving them, so the rest in directories are useless).
The work around would be:
1- to do a Scan Production in the Media files and after that uploading a FCP project associating with that Production, but as I`ve said I can`t just scan the entire Media as it`s very messy and with this way I could be guaranteed that my important assets are catalogued (and archived) and the left ones in the messy directories could be quick filtered to exclusion and cleaning without worries.
2- to upload a FCP and associate to a production and after that manually move fcp associated assets to this production (this almost impossible because the limitation of 200 assets per page).
Can some one propose a better way?
Regards

No, you are correct, but unfortunately these are Elements (inside the FCP project) and not real Assets. So for instance, if you fill in the annotations on the Asset it will not show on the Elements (inside FCP projects) and vice-versa. You can`t do a lot of other things as well with elements as you can with assets.
So I would like to have a Production with all media created automatically when a FCP project is uploaded (or scanned).
Regards

Multiple FCP projects presets saving in original settings

I have multiple FCP projects running on seperate hard disks. Each disk is 2TB for video content. For example Project X is on 1st disk & Project Y is on 2nd disk.
Issue I'm having is when setting the capture presets, etc for X, they are on disk 1. However when I go to disk 2 to work on Y, the presets are now set to disk 1! I can't have the presets for Y landing in X cause when I store X on a back up drive, the Y project spends forever trying to find all the "off line" info.
I need all the presets for each project to stay with that project and drive. So no matter when I open a project, no matter what drive it's on, all the info stays with that project and not another project. I've had this problem for years and it's a pain in the *** trying to keep my projects seperated since more & more are running at the same time.
I actually have (3) 2TB drives for individual projects and a 500GB Main drive for my applications.
Is there a way to have mutiple FCP projects on seperate drives, without having to constantly keep changing the presets so one project doesn't overlap to the another project.

My experience is that you have to change your presets and where your scrach drive is going. So when working on project X save to drive 1. and on project Y save to drive 2. Then reset your presets when switching projects. I agree this is a pain but it is the only way I have found. Just keep doing what you have been doing. Let me know if you find a solution for this.

Accidentally deleted several FCP Projects

I'm using FCP X 10.1.1. I've been making simple (uncomplicated) videos and have used a lot of space on my HD. I'm new to the program and I inadvertenly deleted 4 large projects in my FCP library bc I was looking for more disc space. I realized my error and dragged it back into documents and now I'm really confused as to what to do. It is over over 800GBs I need the disc space but don't want to lose the projects,...one in particular.
If one deletes a FCP project so that it's in the Mac's trash - how do you recover it properly? For example how would you recover a specific deleted FCP project from Time Machine. Does FCP do it's own backup. Below is what I deleted and then dragged back:
"Macintosh HD's projects and events.fcpbundle"
Thanks for any help...
HFGU

Hi HFGU
That fcpbundle is the complete FCPX library. If you "put it back" from trash, you should then be able to open it via File>Open Library ?
If its not in the "top list" of Libraries, you may need to navigate to it via the "Other" option on that list.
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