Leopard 10.5.3 broke my FCE

I just upgraded to 10.5.3 from 10.5.2. When I start FCE, the splash screen displays and then right when I think that I am going to see the browser window, etc., FCE shuts down with any error message. Any ideas?

First of all try trashing the preferences exactly as described here:-
http://www.fcpbook.com/Misc1.html
Then open Disk Utility and Repair Disk Permissions.
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Buy an external drive (or two).
Clone your system before you begin.
Repair the drive while at it, Apple First Aid and another 3rd party program.
Make sure you can boot from your backup clone.
Apple Restore is part of Disk Utilty or there is SuperDuper, or Carbon Copy Cloner.
Me, I would take the above precautions. Then I would format your drive with SL DVD, and perform and clean install. Do all the updates. Then use Setup or Migration Assistant.
Look for threads, there seems to be 4-5 a week at least on Migrating, going from 10.4 or from PPC to 10.6.
That is the safest. In theory, and YMMV, you could try upgrade in place, but not without backups, and repairing your drive with SL DVD first.

FCE 4 doesn' export - General Error

Hi, I've got a problem with FCE 4; I can't get it to export.
I've been working on a project for over three months and now that it's over, I can't export it. I've also moved the whole project from my Macbook, in which I created it, to my iMac 2.4, but nothing, and the end of the "Export in Quick Time Format" it always reads "General Error" and, of course, the video has not been created.
What does that "General Error" mean? Waht can I do in order to solve this issue?
Thanks in advance,
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I'm glad you solved your problem.
Be careful anyway about importing .psd with transparency into PAL projects. In the past (FCE 3.x) I lost some projects because of that. Now I don't dare doing it again, also because I had inconsistent behaviours with a few tests in FCE4. To be safe I import .tif or .png instead.
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Leopard has a bug that prevents FCE (and FCP) shortcuts to work correctly with non-US keyboards. 10.5.3 update did not fix it yet.
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- drag back Italian to the top of the list
- close System Preferences
- (close if necessary and) open FCE or FCP: shortcuts should be fixed.
This seems to work till the next system startup; then you have to repeat this procedure...
Piero

Will FCE be compatible with mountain lion

Please don't said I have to buy FCP app..

Answering about Mountain Lion at this point would be speculation, not permitted in these forums.
You have to understand that FCE was discontinued even before Lion was released. It is not supported on Lion. Many users have attempted to install & run FCE on Lion and have either failed or had problems with the results. The few that seem to have successfully used FCE on Lion basically already had FCE installed on Snow Leopard before upgrading to Lion.
FCE was EOL (end-of-life) as of June 2011. Final Cut Pro X is the current solution.

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I have an easy question. I have been searching through the forums and I believe I know the answer, but wanted to post and find out before spending money to upgrade, since I may be forced by Apple to spend more money unnecessarily.
I just installed Leopard last night. I can capture from iMovie 04, but I cannot capture from my DV camcorder into Final Cut Express HD 3.0. I get dropped frames everytime, and the picture just becomes stuck, while the video is still playing on the camcorder. It is a major disappointment that a program that is almost 4 years old can capture, but my newer, more expensive, program, will not.
Question: Is final cut express hd 3.0 just not compatible with Leopard? I am finding this to be true, but want to be sure. Thank you for your help!

Tom's Questions:
Did you do the update to 3.0.1? Dropped packets? Do you mean dropped frames, or something else?
It keeps telling me that I don't need the update. I am running a PowerPC Mac with an AGP graphics card. I believe that is why it keeps telling me that.
Which camcorder is this? Always use the rear FireWire port on the computer not the front one. If the capture fails go back and trash preferences and repair permissions each time.
My camcorder is a Sony DCR-TRV17. I bought it in 2001. It has worked flawlessly with my Mac (since Feb. 2004) until I did the 10.4.9 update. Then, it started giving me dropped frames. So, I backed it off to 10.4.8 to make it work again. Then, when 10.4.10 was released, it was supposed to fix the problem, but it did not for me. So, I backed it off to 10.4.8 and it worked fine, until the Leopard update a week ago or so. You suggested a erase and install of Leopard, so that is what I did. I reinstalled just Leopard and FCE HD 3.0 and no special preferences. I repaired permissions after the install. I tried to capture at this time and I still get the dropped frames error. It captures for 5-10 minutes and then I get dropped frames. I did plug it into the rear port and it is still failing with dropped frames. Not sure what else I can do at this time? Thanks Tom for your help!!!!!
Ian,
I have been able to capture endless video until version 10.4.9, which was backed off to 10.4.8, so I could capture again. Then, 10.4.10 was supposed to fix this problem, but I still received dropped frames. So, I backed it off again, to 10.4.8, and then it worked fine until I updated to Leopard. I did a clean install of Leopard and a new install of FCE HD 3.0 without preferences loaded. I tried both the front and back firewire ports and I am still having the problem. I cannot update to 3.0.1 because I have a PowerPC Mac with an AGP video card (I believe this is why).
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Big Difference in Final Cut Express Versions????

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I guess that's a long way of asking your opinion if the newer versions are better and/or any easier or more user friendly than Final Cut Express 2.0. Also curious what the learning curve is. I really struggled on the 2.0 version.

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HDV4 in a .mov file won't play back using any software

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I had 4 DVDs sent to me containing a bunch of .mov files that won't play back in any of the following apps:
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Vent:
As videographers gradually move to hard-drive based cameras, their ability to submit their footage becomes more and more difficult. As a result, we get DVDs, flash drives, 64 GB memory sticks, and more. It seems like each one uses a different file format, and every format is proprietary. Where is a standards committee when you need one? Where is the open-source format?

from: http://xkcd.com/927/
In the words of my favorite engineer: "Standards are wonderful ... and there's so many to chose from"
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I need to find my iTunes Music folder!

I'm a Final Cut Express user, recently upgraded from Tiger to Mountain Lion and then partway back to Snow Leopard, which is working with my FCE 3.5. Now I need access to my music, which I manually imported from my CDs five years ago, and use for soundtracks (these are underwater videos.)
I thought I had backup - I use Carbon Copy Cloner and have bootable clones of both Tiger and Mountain Lion, which should contain the iTunes Music Folder. But the folders I can find don't seem to contain any tracks.
Before I make the (probably correct) assumption that I somehow never did have the music backed up, I'd appreciate any ideas about where to look besides Library & Users folders. I do still have all the CDs - probably wouldn't take more than a few weeks...
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I've had about as much of this as I can enjoy, as the fox said...
But I do appreciate your clarification of the storage habits of iTunes.

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We got retail copies of Leopard before developers were shipped theirs. And they were still looking at something from over a month ago, not the latest candidate build(s).
Can you say, "Caught off guard?"
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Some devices needed new firmware. In some cases users weren't using the latest firmware or didn't realize (and if it ain't broke, don't fix it).
All of my disk drives are managed by 3rd party driver from SoftRAID.com which was tested and certified for Leopard months ago. Broke. And probably will be an issue until 10.5.0 is updated (and I'd love to see 10.5.x on DVD or "slipstream" somehow.

NFS mount

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I don't think it's the servers configuration:
(part of /etc/exports)
/dsk/mp3 10.42.42.*(rw,sync,insecure)
and my mount command on the apple should be ok as well:
sudo mount_nfs black:/dsk/mp3 /nfs_photo
The respons on the command are:
mount_nfs: /nfs_photo: Operation not permitted.
As far as I can see there are no ownership issues or such stuff.
My popcorn hour mounts the same just fine
Any one have any clue? I am new on mac but quite old on Linux systems so I do know my way around nfs usally.

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I'm running a Linux Ubuntu server with 500 GB of space, and I'm exporting /data/Music as read-only to my 192.168.1.255 subnet.
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If you've figured this out, could you please post what you did to get it working?

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You broke it, so no.
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