Interesting Observation and fix for crashing while moving / trimming clips

Since day one I have been plagued by STP crashing when I tried to trim clips or move them in time. Recently I noticed this only happens on projects sent to STP from FCP. New projects have never had this horrible symptom.
So I copied all the assets of a project to the clipboard and pasted them into a new empty document and the problem went away. I needed to tweak the positions of some of the automation anchor points but that was minor.
I just thought I'd share that with you folks. After this current project is complete I install FCP Studio 3 and the new STP. Maybe the bug is fixed in the new version.

Nice workaround. Thanks for sharing it!

Similar Messages

Interesting explanation and fix for obscure DNS problems

This blog is a real eye-opener:
*10.5.3 Fixes DNS Problems Plaguing Some Leopard Users*
http://hunter.pairsite.com/blogs/blog20080603.html
Who knew?!
"I had tangled with name lookup issues during early stages of Leopard development, and learned that Leopard changed the way name lookups were made.
"... Some people had been carrying DNS baggage for years with no idea, and this had likely been hampering name lookup operations at some level for a long time, even before 10.5 came along.
"In other cases, it was a major challenge. The average user doesn't know (and probably shouldn't need to know) where their DNS settings are, or what they do. And then consider the common situation of a user with a Mac connected to an Airport connected to a cable modem, with various DHCP leases sprinkled into the mix. In most of those cases, DNS settings are provided far upstream and inherited down through the line. The user may see no DNS settings on the Mac, or it might be using the address of the Airport router. The Airport might contain DNS settings inherited from the cable modem, which it picked up from the ISP through the DHCP lease. The issue then becomes one of figuring out where to purge old DNS settings, if that's even possible, and replacing or overriding them with known good ones (such as from OpenDNS.org). It was a challenge in many cases. Just convincing the user they had a DNS issue was a challenge in some cases!"

I think DNS lookup issues are relatively rare these days and so are perhaps not the obstacle to trouble-free internet access that they used to be in the days when ISPs were less Mac friendly and Apple seemed to have issues with DNS lookups without the network preferences having declared DNS server IPs. Even then, I think much of that was timing, with MacOS flavors at the time being rather more critical than ISPs expected and that Windows tends to be.
Much of the DNS hullabaloo had died out until recently, due to the appearance of active IPv6, which once again seemed have caused timing issues. Thankfully since IPv6 is not much in use yet, it can be switched off in the TCP/IP pane of the appropriate network preference and that seemed to cure DNS lookup issues for those who had them once again.
I've found though, both at work with our commercial T1s, and at home with my (not altogether Mac-friendly) ISP, that DNS has not been an issue sine perhaps the mid MacOS 10.3, or maybe even earlier. And as I found at the time when I had issues at home but not with the same system and configuration at work, it turned out to be the ISP's primary DNS server which was not configured correctly and timed out routinely.
Even with IPv6 still enabled I've not have DNS issues with any Mac for some time, and have not experienced any difference in internet behavior between 10.5.3 and anything prior. Even my iPhone, which had DNS problems if the first DNS IP was the local router, has been behaving correctly since the first firmware update last summer!

What are the cause and fix for the following error message? NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED failure code: 0x80520015

Every time I close my Firefox browser I receive the following error message (see details below).
FYI:
-- I am running the current version of Firefox.
-- I had no problems with this error message until my computer was recently attacked by 2 viruses:
` SystemFix
` Win7 Antivirus 2012
Both viruses have since been cleaned from my computer. However, I am still receiving this error message.
Here are my questions:
* What are the cause and fix for this problem?
* Do I need to uninstall and reinstall Firefox?
* Is it possible that this error message is related to an add-on and that it has nothing to do with the recent virus attacks?
I look forward to any feedback and support you might be able to provide.
Thanks,
Metta
Error Message
NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED
Component returned failure code: 0x80520015 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED)
[nsIFileOutputStream.init]
File: undefined
Line: 857
Stack: undefined

Every time I close my Firefox browser I receive the following error message (see details below).
FYI:
-- I am running the current version of Firefox.
-- I had no problems with this error message until my computer was recently attacked by 2 viruses:
` SystemFix
` Win7 Antivirus 2012
Both viruses have since been cleaned from my computer. However, I am still receiving this error message.
Here are my questions:
* What are the cause and fix for this problem?
* Do I need to uninstall and reinstall Firefox?
* Is it possible that this error message is related to an add-on and that it has nothing to do with the recent virus attacks?
I look forward to any feedback and support you might be able to provide.
Thanks,
Metta
Error Message
NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED
Component returned failure code: 0x80520015 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED)
[nsIFileOutputStream.init]
File: undefined
Line: 857
Stack: undefined

When I open Safari on my iPad 2 and browse for a while, when I close safari on the background home of the iPad if leaves the imprint of the address bar at the top and down the side of my home background!?

Ok so,
When I open safari on my iPad 2 and browse for a while, when I close safari on my background of the home if leaves the address bar imprint and also down the side of the background it leaves white lines from the web browser. I've also noticed it when using various apps aswell. It's not just safari. I've also tryed different background images and it still does it!
Any help?
Thanks Natalie

Try this - Reset the iPad by holding down on the Sleep and Home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons. (This is equivalent to rebooting your computer.)
 Cheers, Tom

While moving a clip to the timeline cc puts it to the righ instead of on top

while moving a clip to the timeline cc puts it to the righ instead of on top

Maybe it can't put it on the track above it because you have the lower track set as the Source Patching destination.

Auto-proxy via file broken? Fix for crashing Tweetie and iTunes

After upgrading to 10.6, Tweetie and iTunes would crash on launch.
I was using a proxy.pac file to automatically set up a proxy when I'm at home (I've got Squid running on my file server). Disabling this (System Preferences > Network > Advanced > Proxies > Automatic Proxy Configuration) made them work again.
I noticed slowdowns with Firefox and Thunderbird as well, hopefully disabling the proxy will fix that issue as well.
Here's my proxy.pac file:
function FindProxyForURL( url, host ) {
if( shExpMatch( host, "*.local" ) ) {
return "DIRECT";
} else if( url.substring( 0, 6 ) == "https:" ) {
return "DIRECT";
} else if( isInNet( myIpAddress(), "10.0.0.0", "255.255.255.0" ) ) {
return "PROXY10.0.0.12:3128";
} else if( isInNet( myIpAddress(), "192.168.0.0", "255.255.0.0" ) ) {
// It's there somewhere..."
return "DIRECT";
return "DIRECT";
}

grags wrote:
Thanks for the thoughts.
I'll look through both your suggestions. It's not really what I'd call a split library, as the /media/music/... folder structure contains both the music files themselves and the iTunes Library folder.
If the folder with the library files (normally iTunes) contains the designated media folder (normally iTunes Media) which in turn contains all media, including any iOS apps and clickwheel games, in any structure you like, then the library is portable. If it doesn't meet the criteria then it is split. Portability comes from the relative relationship between library location and media folder location. iTunes will adjust for a similar change in the root path to both that happens simultaneously, but otherwise expects media to remain on exactly the same path each time it runs.
In context it would seem as if /media is your current media folder in which case moving the library files (see the tip) up to the root of the drive would make the library portable, if not consistent with the common names for the folders. Having accessed the library database at /iTunes Library.itl you should find that you can now close iTunes, change /media to /iTunes Media and reopen without breaking the library. You should then be able to close iTunes, create a new empty folder /iTunes, move the library files and media folder inside /iTunes and access the library at /iTunes/iTunes Library.itl. This would now be a completely portable library with standard names for the principal folders.
iTunes for Windows doesn't provide access to the last known path of missing files so it isn't possible to use a simple string replacement technique to fix things up. If you were to use my script you'd probably need to run it against the media folders; Artists, Pop, Rock, etc. in turn, looking for the content located within each.
tt2

Premiere Pro and Media Encoder crash while rendering H.264

Very recently, a problem's popped up where Premiere Pro and Media Encoder (CC) will crash while rendering H.264.
It's only while rendering H.264 - other formats seem to work fine.
And I don't mean that it returns an error, I mean it hard crashes with a Windows "Adobe Premiere Pro CC has stopped working" popup.
It doesn't crash at a consistent time during the render, even on the same project. Occasionally, it won't crash at all, but this is usually not the case.
I've tried disabling CUDA and my overclock to no avail. Please help!

On the topic of opening a project on the exact same version of Premiere Pro CC 2014 (yes it is definitely up to date, and the 2014 version), to overcome this export crash problem that ZachHinchy has brought up - you can't. Technically speaking, one should easily be able to open a Premiere Pro CC 2014 project from one system on another system running the exact same up to date, legitimate version of Premiere Pro CC 2014 without any kind of error. But for some reason, this has been disallowed(?) by Adobe. It has facepalm written all over it. Does anyone agree that this is at least a little bit silly?
I have tried exporting a Final Cut Pro XML from my project to try and open the sequence at uni on a Mac, so I can render my project when I finish my edit. It half works - the clips are there, but the sequence is gone - i.e. 12 hours of painstaking sequencing and micro-edits that had me at several points in time wanting to insert my hand through my monitor with enough force to make a large hole. I really cannot afford redo this sequence, as my assignment is due tomorrow, and I have to work at 6 oclock in the morning, so I also cannot afford to stay up till the early hours of tomorrow morning. Wish me luck that some miraculous event has taken place overnight that will somehow allow me to just open my project, on the same version of Premiere, on a Mac, without hassle. (Apple OS is not friendly to anything but its own selfish nature, so I am having doubts).
Adobe please, if you can do anything at all to help, you will save my assignment, and my faith will be restored. Otherwise, I'll just get my money back and buy Final Cut instead.
I cant even
If I find a way to fix either of these problems, I will post straight away.

LR3 Fix for Crash when using Develop Module

Adobe tech provided the following fix for my system which crashed when switching to the Develop module.
This is the response I received from Adobe Tech.
Recreating the preferences file corrected the problem.
Their help was right-on and appreciated.
Ed
* to Customer**
06/11/201018:11:12
Hi Ed,
Thank you for getting back to us. I appreciate your promptness in
responding to our email.
The information provided was really helpful in understanding the issue.
In order to resolve this issue I would request you to perform the below
mentioned steps in order to resolve this issue:
* Remove Lightroom beta from your system as you have the the full
purchase version Adobe Lightroom 3.0 (Because there may be conflicts
between the Beta Version and original product)
* Try to create new Catalog with some new images and check if you are
facing the same issue with Develop module.
* Check if other functions are working fine like Slideshow, Print, Web.
If the problem still exist after removing the Lightroom beta version
from your PC, then perform the below mentioned troubleshooting steps:
* Re-create the Photoshop Lightroom preferences file.
Re-create the Photoshop Lightroom 3.0 and 1.x preferences files to
eliminate problems that a damaged preferences file might cause. If you
do not delete your 1.x preferences as well as your 3.0 preferences,
other issues may occur.
To re-create the Photoshop Lightroom preferences file:
1. Quit Photoshop Lightroom.
1. Rename the Lightroom 3 Preferences.agprefs file (for example, to
Lightroom 3 Preferencesagprefs.old) and the Lightroom Prefere
nces.agprefs file (for example, to Lightroom Preferences.old) in the
Documents and Settings/[Username ]/Application
Data/Adobe/Lightroom/Preferences folder.
1. Start Photoshop Lightroom. Photoshop Lightroom creates a new
preferences file.
If the problem continues, the preferences file isn't the cause. To
restore custom settings, delete the new preferences file and restore the
original name of the previous preferences file.
* Also Send us the Image size and format on which your are working in
Lightroom hence resulting in this issue.
This should resolve your issue. If it does, please let us know, however
in case it does not; please revert with any new information that you
might want to add which will help us in resolving your issue.
You can also try referring to our knowledge base and User to User forums
by clicking on the following links:
Knowledgebase: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm
U2U Forums: www.forums.adobe.com

Creating a new catalogue and importing the images does not resolve the problem.
The problem is only occuring on a few images from a particular collection.
Creating a virtual copy also will not edit in photoshop.
Creating a virtual copy and reseting the develop settings will allow the ctrl-e command to work.
However, manually re-applying the develop settings once again stops the ctrl-e command working.

Fix for crash caused by conflict with Joesoft Hear software

Here's information about a fix for the crash in After Effects & Premiere Pro CS5 caused by a conflict with the Joesoft Hear audio enhancer:
http://bit.ly/hyqEZ4

After 2 days trying to get AE and Premiere past the mediacore initialization message, I finally stumbled on this little message. Updating Hear definitely solves the problem!

HT3964 My MacBook Pro i5 Dual Core has a hardtime waking up when the computer is put to sleep and only when it goes to sleep and has been asleep for a while. The indicator light flashes on and off for a while and then freezes. I've done an SMC reset once.

Does any one have the same problem with their MacBook Pro i5 Intel Dual Core? If the computer goes to sleep (not the screen) and is asleep for a while, when I try to wake it up it doesn't respond. I have to power it downn and restart it and sometimes it takes two or three attempts. Otherwise it works fine. I upgraded the memory to 8 GB. That is the only alteration doen to it. I've performed one SMC restart and now it wakes up but it takes a while and a gray screen shows up. When I insert a DVD it won't start automatically I have to start the application in order to see it. Any suggestions?

http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/

List of issues and fixes for procure to pay process and order to cash process for a trading company

Dear All Gurus
Kindly tell me where I can find the list of all issues arising in procure to pay process
and order to cash process and there fixes for a trading company in support project
Thanking You
Abdul Baseer

Hi Abdul,
There are no standard list to provide, you should identify the issue through regression testing and raise an SR or create a thread accordingly we can help you.
Note:- Issues are vary to instance to instance, version to version, installation to upgrade etc..

-FIX FOR NO SOUND ON VIDEO CLIPS PUT ON iPOD-

Hi, I was just playing around, trying to get an .mpg (MPEG-1) file to play on the ipod. I exported it with QT using the 'Export for iPod' option, the video worked, but there was no sound, I know that a lot of people are having this problem. Here is how I got an old MPEG file to work on my iPod video: (PS: You have to have QT Pro, I used 7.0.3 Pro)
1) Take your original file (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, or AVI, etc) and open it in QT and then go file 'Save As', select 'Self Contained Movie' and then hit save. This will make a copy of the movie, but put it .mov format.
2) When it is done, open the .mov file it just created, and using the QT Pro 'copy' feature select the entire movie (Cmd+A) and then copy that (Cmd+C).
3) Open a new QT player (Cmd+N) and then hit Paste (Cmd+V). It should have copied the movie from the .mov file into an UNSAVED New QT Player window.
4) Now, go File>Export... (Or Cmd+E) and then select 'Movie to iPod' in export to dropdown. Name your file and hit save, it will begin exporting the file into a .m4v file. (Which the iPod likes)
5) When it is done, which can take a very long time (It took me at least 5-7hrs to export a clip that was 1hr long)
6) Drag the newly created .m4v file into iTunes, update your iPod, and the iPod should read it and it should have video AND sound together nicely, which has been the big problem.
Try this out maybe copying a very small portion of the movie (back at step 2) to a new player, maybe 10-20sec worth as this will not take very much time to export to the .m4v file and will allow you to put it on your iPod to test it out and see if it will work.
Try it out and I hope it works for you. Post any comments as well. Thanks, Dylan

I have also found a fix for this (MAC only probably). It requires 2 free apps, and it doesn't take horribly long, I think one of the apps does the same exact thing as quicktime pro when you export from there, so it might take a while.
1. Download the app MPEG Streamclip.
2. Download the app MoviesToGo
3. Open your muxed video in MPEG Streamclip
4. Go to File>Export To Quicktime
5. Choose a Quality then Make Movie (this goes fast)
6. Open the created movie in MoviesToGo (or another iPod Video Exporter)
Then your video will be able to play on the iPod with sound, and its free.
Hope This Works For You Guys

Why is FCPX freezing repeatedly while moving title clips?

Hello to all.
I am facing an exasperating situation. I am at the tag end of a project and I find that FCPX is freezing whenever I try to relocate a title. Have been forcrd to repeatedly force quit! Have trashed the preferences repeatedly, have restarted and even shut down the computer, have deleted thumbnail data, but, FCPX refuses to work.
Have read other posts in which one gentleman facing a similar problem was able to shift his titles with the inspector window closed. In my case, his method of surmounting the problem has not worked.
Right now I am minded to do this:
open FCPX once again, delete the existing titles, accurately place new titles and renter the text. Shall let you know the progress.
Until then, if there is some useful input in this totally frustrating matter, I would be too happy to lap it up!
Thanks in advance.

An update.
I have done this: copy the 'problematic' section of the project into a new project and have tried to edit the title clips in the new project...but this too was not of help.
I noticed that the FCPX would freeze only when a playback is attempted with the clip selected. But it would not whimper were I to move the clips, extend or shorten them.
Upon this realisation, making a 'crude' assessment based upon the audio waveforms, I did my 'rough' editing of the titles...and, the finished work appeared 'decent' enough. The flaws would be certainly noticed by seasoned viewers.
While pondering over this matter, I have this hunch that this erratic behavior of FCPX could have been triggered by my doing this: I had need of placing many titles in the project, and all of the text had to be given [almost] the same size fonts, tracking, face color, outline color and width. I had in an earlier thread asked whether there was any shortcut by which one could get all these parameters into the text without having need to edit each title individually. In that thread I learnt that one needed to do such a 'custom title' in Motion, which I do not have. In a moment of 'carelessness', acting against my better judgment, I did this 'easy' way of gettting things done: copy one title which had been editied and paste it at the required spot on the timeline; this done, I would delete the earlier text and replace it with the new one.
I guess that resorting to this 'easy shortcut' had forced me to take the 'hard long route'!
Whether this 'logic' of mine regarding the origin of the problem is correct or not, I sincerely hope that Apple would give its fans the happiness of easily adding preset parameters such as font size, face color, outline color and width etc. to one's text from within FCPX itself.
I would also like to hear from other forum members regarding this seriuos matter. From other posts I understand that I am not unique in facing this problem but others too have faced it. For those to whom videomaking is a hobby [I am not one of them], having to face or pass through this kind of problem may not affect their careers adversely, but for those who are professionals [I am not one of them!], whose livelihoods and reputations are at stake, facing this problem would be the equivalent of smelling one's goose being cooked!
I would also like the reader viewing this post to view this short video which has given me so much trouble:
http://youtu.be/9niDagLrf4I

After a tab is loaded, FF keeps the "Connecting" word and graphic(animated circle)after the site has loaded. It doesn't show the sito logo in tab. Reinstalling fixes for a while.Using FF 8 thx

I thought it was flash 11 but disabling this did not fix. Adobe flash does crash a lot, but doesn't seem to be related. If this can't be resolved, can (HOW) I go back to a previous version?

Would you mind opening a new bug on this at bugbase.adobe.com? Please include your dxdiag report, a specific URL and a link to this forum thread.
In the meantime, you might want to try our 11.3 beta or rollback to a previous version of the player to see if that resolves the problem.
Thanks,
Chris

Fix for crash in After Effects CS5 and Premiere Pro CS5 when Joesoft Hear audio enhancer installed

After Effects CS5 and Premiere Pro CS5 both can crash due to a conflict with the Joesoft Hear audio enhancer.
We've just gotten confirmation from Joesoft that they've released a beta version of Hear that doesn't conflict with After Effects CS5 and Premiere Pro CS5. We're recommending that our customers who also use Hear install the 1.0.5b2 (build 490) beta version of Hear.
Let us know on this forum thread whether this solution works for you. We on the After Effects and Premiere Pro teams will monitor this thread for feedback, and we'll make sure that the folks at Joesoft get the information that they need, too.
When reporting back, be sure to let us know whether you've installed the Premiere Pro CS5 (5.0.2) update and After Effects CS5 (10.0.1) update.

After 2 days trying to get AE and Premiere past the mediacore initialization message, I finally stumbled on this little message. Updating Hear definitely solves the problem!

Interesting Observation and fix for crashing while moving / trimming clips

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for