Final Cut wont open.....

hello.....i recently tried to open my Final Cut Pro after not using it for 3 weeks and subsequently couldn't open it. I recieved the following message.....
The application Final Cut Pro quit unexpectedly.
Mac OS X and other applications are not affected.
Click reopen to open the application again. Click report to see more details or send a report to Apple.
I tried reopening it but no joy....and the details are something i dont understand. Any ideas anybody...i have work on there which i need to export....
Thank you

Bob forgot to have you trash your plist.
You will not lose any work you have saved although doing this will revert you FCP to its default setup.
You will need to reassign your scratch disk and that type of thing.
I recommend that you also repair permissions and reboot to clear up all sorts of maladies.
Here's how to do it all:
Close Final Cut Pro.
Go to: Users/your user name/Library/Preferences.
Drag, "com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist" to the trash.
Scroll down to the Final Cut Pro User Settings folder.
Drag, "Final Cut Pro 6 Preferences" to the trash.
Drag, "Final Cut Pro Obj Cache" to the trash
Drag, "Final Cut Pro POA Cache" to the trash.
Go to: Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility
Select your system disk
Click on the Repair Permissions button
Wait for the permissions to be repaired
Restart your computer

Similar Messages

Final cut wont open and keeps disappearing while loading

Since friday, I am trying to open final cut and wont let me, it disappears as soon as it starts loading. I restarted the mac so many times and I have reinstalled final cut and nothing. keeps disappearing.
any thoughts?

Before the long winded uninstall / reinstall hoopla, did you just try trashing your preferences? Might be all you need. You can do it manually of course but the free Preference Manager tool from Digital Rebellion handles it easily plus allows you to create preference set backups and more : http://www.digitalrebellion.com/pref_man.htm

Final cut wont open AGP card?

my Final Cut express wont open and it says it is due to no AGP graphics card, wut does that mean and how can i fix it?

The simplest thing to try first, is to hit the "esc" key when you get the error message.
If that doesn't work then you can try editing the info.plist as described in the thread Joe gave you - it sounds complicated but it is dead simple and won't take a couple of minutes.
Some folks claim they have merely deleted the info.plist and it has worked. You can't do any harm because FCE is safe on its Installation DVD and it is the program not the computer you are fiddling with.
Ian.

Final Cut wont recognize when i push esc when capturing now.

Final Cut wont recognize when i push esc when capturing now on an uncontrolled device.
help.

I have captured from a VHS player thru a camcorder to FCP, but never experienced a Capture Now not stopping after pressing the ESC key. I did a quick search and found a question similar to yours. The following suggestions are mostly from a response posted by Tony Gay:
1. Trash the FCP preferences. Try Preference Manager for doing that if you don't already have it.
2. Run Disk Utility and select Repair Disk Permissions
3. Check your System Prefs, make sure that your Energy Saver settings are so that the system stays awake and disks do not power down.
4. The FCP preferences will need to be reset. If using Capture Now, check that it is not limited, reset your drives and etc.
5. Check that the codec of the camera/tape match the setting that you are capturing with.
6. Try capturing a short piece using Log and Capture...
7. Try Capture Now.
The person with the problem posted back reporting that after doing the above, ESC was again working with Capture Now.
Good luck.

Final Cut Express opening of project

I am brand spanking new to Final Cut Express and already am getting into trouble trying to get a past project to reopen. i am going to file>open> and clicking on it in the folder i created but it wont load up on my timeline it just appears infront of the viewer window waiting for me to hit the play button to view it. What am i doing wrong?i want to be able to view it on the timeline as well.thx

*This may be an old thread, but oh well. I am have the same problem. Ever since I installed the new OS (leopard) I haven't been able to open my old Final cut express HD project files. I'll click on one and it will load then say either general error or access denied. I have no idea how to fix it.*
*I have final cut express HD version 3 and my old files are final cut ver. 3.0 files. I haven't had a problem with the new project files I have made.*

FInal Cut wont start up: URGENT!

Everytime I click on the FCP icon in either my dock or applications, it begins the start up and the little start up info window pops up to start running through all the plugins etc... then it just quits out. No error explanation nothing. It just stops loading. I have a deadline pending so any help ASAP please!
FCP HD 5.0.4
Thanks!

Hi Erika,
You could try this:
Move your project folder into your Shared Folder (Users>Shared)
Create a new profile on your Mac
Try opening FCP in your new profile
Reconnect your media
and hopefully this is an emergency workround
Stephen (UK)
G5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.7) 4.5GB RAM Quadro FX 4500 graphics card, Final Cut Studio, AE 7 pro, 2 x Sony Z1E

Final cut wont render

I've just come across a strange problem. Final Cut will no longer render out. When I click on render all, render video, etc, the task window bar pops up for a split second as it would when rendering, and then closes. I've tried rebooting, trashing preferences, and still nothing. My Final Cut is 5.0.4. There is plenty of room for render. it just wont. Any ideas? Thank you.

I don't know if this will help or not but...
I had a similar issues like this once. My issues were slightly different.
I work in DV NTSC. I use a lot of effects on my clips. I switch over to unlimited RT from Safe RT (Using the little RT button top left on the timeline) If you're in Unlimited RT mode you don't have to Render Unrendered footage to see it. FCPro will play through it as best it can. It'll be a bit jumpy but at least I don't have to render all the time. The kicker is that FC won't let me "render by selection". I get the same issues your describing. A little render window will flicker on screen for a second and then be gone and no rendering will occur.
In my case I either need to "render all" or switch back to safe RT mode and render by selection.
Like I said I don't know if this will help at all but worth a shot.
Good luck.

Final Cut Express Opens and Shuts Down?! HELP!!!

Hi there,
I recently purchased Final Cut Express 2.0 and installed it onto my computer. After running into numerous glitches, I upgraded to FCE 3.5.
I installed FCE 3.5 and LiveType and Soundbooth both are working great. However, when I open FCE, it begins to open and starts to load. You assume it is going to load in, but then the screen disappears and you are back to the desktop.
I have deleted the preference files from the library, figuring that would be the solution. However, it seems as if that still has not solved my problem. I also tried Reparing Disc Utilities AND I tried re-installing just Final Cut Express after deleting the files that I thought might have been corrupt.
Can anybody lend some advice as to what else I might try? If you have steps on how to do these things, that'd be great, too.
The apple support people that I called said I should come on here, so please do not advise me to call Apple.
THANK YOU!!!!

Try trashing the preferences again making sure you delete ALL of them as described in this article by Tom:-
http://www.fcpbook.com/Misc1.html
If FCE still does not work, try reinstalling again but make sure you first of all UNINSTALL COMPLETELY like this :-
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301182
You can ignore the LiveType and Soundtrack items.
Ian.

My final cut pro opens and then closes immediatly

I've already called the apple support telephone to know how can I keep open my final cut pro, but they haven't given to me any good solution. I want to know if someone can tell me what I need to do to use this program again. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP

I let my FCP 5.0.1 to a friend so that he could install it on his laptop. He used the same serial number as me but he changed the name of the license (my name for his name). Do you think that could be the problem? But when I called the apple support, they told me that it did not matter. But I write much better than I speak English. So maybe I did not get it right.
Thank you.

Final cut pro opens randomly in 10.6.4

since I loaded 10.6.4, Final cut pro has been periodically opening on it's own. Does anyone know how to reload 10.6.3

You should be more concerned with finding out what is causing FCP to launch, rather than how to downgrade the OS. The OS is working fine here, and no doubt on many other machines around the globe. It isn't the problem.
What are you doing when it launches? Are you trying to open a certain type of file? Is there anyone with remote login access to your machine that could be playing jokes on you?

Final Cut Pro opens as "Finder" in Menu Bar

My FCP Project opens on my laptop, but "Finder" is what the Menu Bar shows. If I click on any part of the interface, it turns into a Full Screen of the canvas. Or a black screen. I click Command/Tab to get back the interface, and still "Finder" instead of Final Cut Pro in the Menu Bar.
I tried Ctl/U. Nothing.
Any ideas please?
Message was edited by: RuthSchell

#44: FCP acting weird - Trash Prefs
Shane's Stock Answer #44: FCP acting weird or unusual. Just not like is normally should
If the program was working fine, and now isn't, or just isn't working the way it should, the first things to do are:
1) Trash your FCP preferences. Download the Preference Manager from Digital Rebellion: http://www.digitalrebellion.com/pref_man.htm
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/trashing_fcpprefs.html
2) Open the Disk Utility and Repair Permissions.
3) Shut down for 10 min. Go for a quick walk around the block and get SOME exercise today. Come back, turn on the computer and see how things are.
4) (optional) Do the Hokey Pokey and turn your self about. Results may vary.
Shane

Can Final Cut Express open Final Cut Pro files?

I am wishing to edit a Final Cut Pro file that is saved to a hard drive, but I olny have Final Cut Express. Will I be able to open the Pro file with Final Cut EXpress? If not, is there any way I could open the file?

I did this, as instructed, but when I got home to see if my FCE would open the file, it didn't even recognize it as a standard file. When I tried to force it, it just brought up an error message. I do have all the related media files on my drive. Anything I'm missing here? Thanks so much!

Can Final Cut Pro Open iMovie projects?

I am just curious because I have a lot of clips into a project of imovie that I wanted to use in final cut pro but I could just copy all the clips but I wanted to check in advance to see if that was possible.

You used to be able to just open iMovie 06 projects in Final Cut but Apple made it a bit more complex.
In iMovie 08, select the SHARE menu and then click on "Export Final Cut Pro XML"
Save the XMl someplace fun.
Then exit iMovie if you're finished.
Back in FCP, right-click in the Browser window and select IMPORT and then click on XML.
Navigate to find the XML you just exported from iMovie, click on it, and open it.
A new sequence is created and you simply need to load that sequence (By double-clicking).
Everything is wonderful.
Warning, do NOT use the File | Open menu sequence which can locate and open the XML because this will cause the new COLOR program to load the iMovie Project and that wasn't so much fun.

Help, My final cut wont start...

I tryed to start up final cut after removing my Lacie Drives and it wont work now. Even after putting them back in it still wont boot up. I dont know what to do, I tryed deleting it from my applications and it still wont work. Any suggestions?

What error message(s) are you getting? How is the application behaving when you try to start it up? Are you starting up by double clicking the application or an existing project?
I tryed to start up final cut after removing my Lacie
Drives and it wont work now. Even after putting them
back in it still wont boot up. I dont know what to
do, I tryed deleting it from my applications and it
still wont work. Any suggestions?

My final cut wont let me download my footage.....why?

ok first let me say that to fix this i can delete final cut and start over however i cant seem to delete all of final cut. the main bulk of it is hiding someplace and i cant seem to get it all. very frustrating. i have used "FIND" and delete everything that had final-cut and yet still the main part of it still was there. if you know how to delete it all let me know.
but here is the problem. I have a mini panasonic cam and when i go to download. i go "apple8" and then when i try and play my footage. it plays 3 seconds of it and freezes. its not the camera i know this 100%. but i dont know why it does this. i have checked the video pref. and its all correct in audio and video. i need help and im just running out of choices. my last and final is to start my computer totally over because i cant get all of final cut to delete. that would be a super pain in the butt. i hope someone know whats going on or know how to delete FCP 100% so i can start over and down load from scratch.

www.digitalrebellion.com - FCS REMOVER. Free.
What panasonic camera? Tape based, or tapeless? If tapeless, I have a tutorial:
Tapeless Workflow for FCP 7 Tutorial
Shane

Final Cut wont open.....

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for