I can't open my Final Cut Pro anymore...

Hi, I haven't been using final cut pro on my mac for a while and when I recently tried to open it, it didn't open and told me that "One or more of the scratch disks that I have specified does not have read/write access"... What does this mean?

If you don't get a dialog box during start-up to reset your scratch disks as Todd mentioned. Navigate to Users/~You~/Library/Preferences and delete the following file:
     com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist
Then navigate to Users/~You~/Library/Preferences/Final Cut Pro User Data and delete these three files:
     Final Cut Pro 6.0 Prefs
     Final Cut Pro Obj Cache
     Final Cut Pro Prof Cache
This will reset you preferences to their defaults and hopefully get you up and running.

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Hello everyone!
My problem is: I cannot open my final cut pro x library. When I try to open it it says:
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abort() called
It happens to only one library. All the rest work fine.
I've got FCPX 10.1.2.
OS X 10.9.4
It doesn't open the projects, when I try to open them separately (choose "show contents")
Help me please... I really need that very bundle to work....

Russ, Adam, thank you very much!
First, I deleted the flexiolibrary, then the library opened in FCPX, but there were missing projects. Then I launched the latest backup and all worked well.
Thank you veeery much again!

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Russ has answered your question.
What follows constitutes bully pulpitism.
Apple has a long history of abandoning legacy software and hardware. I would be VERY careful before I bought into the the next iteration of Apple software. The real conundrum is Adobe seems bent on extracting blood from stones with its new subscription model so it becomes a choice of lessor evils. Do you pick "the next great thing" (whatever that means) from a company that you know will cut you off at the kness or do you pick something that has a high degree of stability but will bleed you over the long run?
Not an easy choice.
x

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I went to the Apple store at the Stonestown Mall in San Francisco today and they assured me that my colleague would be able to open my FCP project file in his FCE program... but I'm skeptical.
Can you really open a FCP project file in FCE?
Could somebody who has both confirm this for me?
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Can't open Final Cut Pro anymore. HELP!!!

I can't open my Final Cut Pro. When I click to open it, a message comes up saying, "Final Cut Pro quit unexpectedly." It tells me to click reopen to open the application, but every time I click reopen, the same message screen comes back. I can't open Final Cut. I need help.

I am having same exact problem.
It was working fine for years, and all of a sudden, after a Mac Os X Software Update it will NOT open, ( I think this may have caused the problem, however I am not sure)
Here is details of Report:
Process: Final Cut Pro [581]
Path: /Users/WhOaGRL17/Desktop/My Stuff/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Pro
Identifier: com.apple.FinalCutPro
Version: 5.0 (5.0)
Build Info: FCPApp-504212200~2
Code Type: PPC (Translated)
Parent Process: launchd [137]
Date/Time: 2010-04-13 15:54:23.229 -0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.3 (10D573)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report: 76964 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 5
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 5
Anonymous UUID: 581E4045-302A-46D0-8E01-0F5D3D1554C8
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x8023656a _pthreadkill + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x80235e17 pthread_kill + 95
2 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0xb80bfb30 0xb8000000 + 785200
3 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0xb80c0037 0xb8000000 + 786487
4 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0xb80dd8e8 0xb8000000 + 907496
5 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0xb8145397 spinlockwrapper + 1791
6 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0xb801ceb7 0xb8000000 + 118455
Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x801402fa machmsgtrap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x80140a67 mach_msg + 68
2 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0xb819440f CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 206231
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x8016da19 pthreadstart + 345
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x8016d89e thread_start + 34
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x802f74e0 ecx: 0xb7fff9ac edx: 0x8023656a
edi: 0xb8211640 esi: 0x00000005 ebp: 0xb7fff9d8 esp: 0xb7fff9ac
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00000286 eip: 0x8023656a cs: 0x00000007
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x80236560
Binary Images:
0x80000000 - 0x8005bff7 com.apple.framework.IOKit 2.0 (???) <69E4FE93-376C-565E-650F-04FAD213AA24> /System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit
0x8007a000 - 0x800e4fe7 libstdc++.6.dylib 7.9.0 (compatibility 7.0.0) <411D87F4-B7E1-44EB-F201-F8B4F9227213> /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib
0x8013f000 - 0x802e4feb libSystem.B.dylib 125.0.1 (compatibility 1.0.0) <06A5336A-A6F6-4E62-F55F-4909A64631C2> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
0x80364000 - 0x804ddffb com.apple.CoreFoundation 6.6.1 (550.19) <1E97FB1E-9E42-B8EB-E463-5C75315FDA31> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
0x805d5000 - 0x805e3fe7 libz.1.dylib 1.2.3 (compatibility 1.0.0) <82B2C254-6F8D-7BEA-4C18-038E90CAE19B> /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib
0x805e8000 - 0x805f4ff7 libkxld.dylib ??? (???) <13F26BB6-C2F7-9D74-933E-09AD8B509ECD> /usr/lib/system/libkxld.dylib
0x805f8000 - 0x8063eff7 libauto.dylib ??? (???) <85670A64-3B67-8162-D441-D8E0BE15CA94> /usr/lib/libauto.dylib
0x8064b000 - 0x807cdfe7 libicucore.A.dylib 40.0.0 (compatibility 1.0.0) <96A45E03-2B29-83EB-0FC6-2C932E398722> /usr/lib/libicucore.A.dylib
0x8082f000 - 0x808dcfe7 libobjc.A.dylib 227.0.0 (compatibility 1.0.0) <DF8E4CFA-3719-3415-0BF1-E8C5E561C3B1> /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
0x808f0000 - 0x808f3fe7 libmathCommon.A.dylib 315.0.0 (compatibility 1.0.0) <1622A54F-1A98-2CBE-B6A4-2122981A500E> /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib
0x8fe00000 - 0x8fe4162b dyld 132.1 (???) <211AF0DD-42D9-79C8-BB6A-1F4BEEF4B4AB> /usr/lib/dyld
0xb8000000 - 0xb81defff com.apple.FinalCutPro 5.0 (5.0) <C6CB6BA8-8BA2-8F0A-4A49-912B00D2FF10> /Users/WhOaGRL17/Desktop/My Stuff/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Pro
0xffff0000 - 0xffff1fff libSystem.B.dylib ??? (???) <06A5336A-A6F6-4E62-F55F-4909A64631C2> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
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objc[581]: garbage collection is ON
NO CRASH REPORT
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Can iMovie projects be opened in Final Cut Pro?

I've been searching all over the internet and the forums here and I cannot find an answer to this question. I know that at one time, iMovie projects could be opened by Final Cut Pro. Is this still the case? If not, does anyone know what versions are compatible with each other?
I'm asking because I may be starting a documentary project soon where the director has already done some preliminary editing in iMovie (that's all she knows how to use). I'll need to transfer the project somehow into FCP to edit the project, and I just want to know how big of a headache this will be.
Any help on the subject would be majorly appreciated!

You can definitely use iMovie 08 to do a preliminary rough cut, then move the project into FCpro, and you don't need FCExpress to do it. Check out this tutorial (costs about $8) for more details, (altho most of the show is devoted to how to use iMovie):
iMovie Rough Cutting for Final Cut Pro
http://www.rippletraining.com/imovierough_cutting_for_final_cutpro.html
The blurb says:
"As a video professional you may think iMovie is only a tool for creating home movies, but it can be so much more! In this tutorial, we'll show you how anyone with a Mac and iMovie can generate frame-accurate cut lists that can be imported into Final Cut Pro. You'll even learn how to use iMovie in less than 7 minutes, which speaks to the incredible user-friendliness of the application.
This tutorial is available through iTunes.
In this tutorial you will learn how to:
Defining the Problem
iMovie Jumpstart
Importing Footage into iMovie
Changing the Number of Thumbnails
Skimming a Filmstrip
Naming a Project
Making Selections in the Events Browser
Adding Selections to a Project
Non-Linear Editing in iMovie
Trimming a Shot
Using the E Shortcut
Sharing the Project with Final Cut Pro
Importing the XML File into FCP
XML Dialogue - What it Means
Reconnecting to Media"
I've always used iMovie (HD and earlier) for rough cutting and initial importing, then switched to FC (first Express, then Studio 2) for color correction, titles, animation, and video layers. It was a bit of a hassle before iMovie 08; had to dig into the hidden files in the iMovie project to find the actual clips, or save out a dv version. Now you simply need the Final Cut XML file and access to the original clips.
I have noticed that I need to check the "Use flattened audio from thumbnail movies" box in the iMovie sharing dialog, or else the audio needs to be rendered in FC, which, oddly, the tutorial above doesn't mention, or do. It may be that I need to do that because I use iMovie to import the footage in the first place, while the tutorial assumes you've got the clips already on a drive somewhere, and that you're working with files that other folks created elsewhere.
I also check the Reconnect to Media files box in the FC import XML dialog, which the tutorial doesn't do (they reconnect to the media files manually after the XML import; they're visible inside the iMovie project when you use FC's Reconnect Media command). But since I imported the files on the same computer that I edit on, I simply check the box.
According to David Pogue's Missing Manual for iMovie 08, you can also export out a QuickTime file using Apple Intermediate Codec, and then open this file in "any Apple video editing software," such as iMovie HD, and presumably FC. But that means a huge file, and duplicating the media. If you choose this route, be sure to check the size settings in the QUICKTIME export settings dialog, and set the audio to 48000k.
HTH!

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I have AVI files that I need to convert to MOV files so that I can edit them in Final Cut Pro. I am going to use Quick Time Pro for this....When I have the files open in QT Pro do I have to 'export' it or can I just 'save as', or is there even a difference? Thanks in advance for your help!

I strongly recommend you use compressor to do the conversion (if it will open the files - since quicktime will open them, it will more than likely do it.
Compressor allows you to customize presets and save them and apply them to multiple files. Although the interface may seem daunting, it's actually pretty simple.
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Hello,
I can't download the final cut pro's update in AppleStore. Have a solution ?
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Is the application in your Purchases page? Are you signed in to the App Store using the Apple ID that purchased the software?

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Because it is $299.99, and there is tax.
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Since it appears that Premiere has issues with capture - at least for me but as I see it for others as well - and that I can capture with iMovie, can I consider using Final Cut Pro for capture - then cross to Adobe Premiere and the suite for editing, finalizing ? Or is there a problem to copy the shots/files from one program to the other (would they remain identified clearly so I could just import shots into Premiere afterward ?)
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