My FCE won't open??

when I try to open my final cut express or final cut pro I get a message that says I need more ram. I have always ran these programs on my computer before, why do I now get these error messages??

Do you have large file size stills in the timeline?
Al

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FCE won't open at all.

Reinstalled all of FCE. Still won't open. I am running a MBP with 10.6.7 and FCE 3.5

Try here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12974592&#12974592
Al

Quicktime 7.4 blues!! FCE won't open...

I'm having the same problem as many others are expressing with the new Quicktime 7.4 messing up my Final Cut Express. I can't open it (FCE) since I have updated my Quicktime. I read the article about using Pacifist, but I am confused about how to do an archive and Install on the Quicktime 7.4. Can someone explain this to me in the, "Archive and Install for Dummies" form? I NEED to get into my FCE soon!
Thanks very much...

Ok, I found the receipts but the only QT in there is the 7.3. When I try to click on that to install it says I can't do it because a newer version is already on my HD. I have put the 7.4 in the trash but didn't empty it yet, can this be causing this to read that it is still there? I also did a computer search for 7.4 and found Quicktime 740 listed but, it won't allow me to trash that, right above it is Quicktime 730 listed. They are both listed under 'other' in this place I found them. Does any of this make sense to anyone?
thank you...
ruez

FCE won't open on my new MacBook Pro - says I need a Quartz Extreme Card

I just bought a new MacBook Pro Laptop, and since I was having lots of hardware and software related problems with my old one, I clean installed everything rather than transferring things through archive.
Anyhow, I was initially able to register and install FCE from the original disk and then downloaded and installed all available upgrades. I opened it up, tried "Log and Transfer" to upload some video I'd shot on my Canon Vixia HFS10, and it worked fine. I saved and closed, but now, next morning when I tried to open FCE to edit my video it wouldn't open. A "Minimum System Check" came up that said "This system does not meet the following minimum requirements: Final Cut Express requires that your system have a Quartz Extreme Capable Video Card." I'm pretty sure that my NVIDIA GeForce 9400M + NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT cards meet the requirements and that Final Cut Express just doesn't recognize that they are much better than the minimum requirements it is programmed to look for. How can I fix this? I saw another thread on a similar topic suggesting that someone delete their FCE, and then perform a clean install, but that's effectively what I've just gone through, and I'm not in the mood to spend a couple of hours seeing if the same thing I just did fixes the problem I have now. This seems like something that would be an easy programming fix, probably a simple modification to a preferences file, but I wonder if anyone out there has the solution?
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No, I have FCE 4 - should have said that - and it worked on my older Intel based MacBook Pro.
As it turns out, though, I think I've solved the problem, adapting a solution to a related problem I found on MacRumors.com. Don't know why this is necessary, but here's the solution I tried:
1. right click on the FCE application icon and select "Show Package Contents"
2. open the "Contents" folder and then open the "info.plist" folder in Text Edit
3. find the line that says: "<key>AELMinimumQuartzExtremeCapable</key>," and replace it with "<key>AELMinimumGeForceCapable</key>", and then make sure that the next line says "<string></string>" without any number specified. Or, if you have some other kind of graphics card that you know is compatible, you could say what that is instead of GeForce. I found it doesn't work just to delete this line completely.
Again, I don't know why Apple didn't build in this flexibility when they updated their standard Graphics cards, but in any case this solution seems to work.

FCE Won't open - crashes everytime

I am having a dilemma with FCE and FCP. I was having issues with Quicktime 7.4.1 so I used Pacifist to overide it with quicktime 7.2. After I did that, I was unable to open FCE or FCP they crash before they open. I went back in and re-loaded Quicktime 7.4 using Pacifist. FCP and FCE still will not open - crash before they open.
I am about at my wits end and out of ideas to get back up and running. I never had any problems until I started downloading "updates" and "upgrades" now I have constant problems. I just need to get FCP and FCE to open so I can work on my projects.
Can anyone help? Here is my info:
Mac G5 Power PC 10.4.11
FCE 3.0
FCP 4.5
Quicktime 7.4.1
I will forward the error message if needed.
Thanks!

Yes -that is what I ended up doing. Although, I did choose the option of archiving and creating a back up file - not erasing system completely. When I re-booted, it asked for my password (the system password) which I entered and it wouldn't take. So I had to call Apple Support and sweet talk them into helping figure out how to change my password. Once that was achieved, I was able to get in - checked all my programs and files, and everything worked fine. i could get into FCE and FCP with no problem.
It didn't take as long as I had imagined either. Just make sure to back up your important stuff jsut in case.
Hope this helps.

FCE won't open older files

So I recently had to have my macbook repaired at the apple store, but it was only a software issue, so all of my files were still intact. So I go to open a project that I had been working on before the repair in FCE 4, and it says, "this project is unreadable, or may be too new for this version of Final Cut Express." The files were written with that same copy. Is it really that they are unreadable?

Read carefully:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6800585#6800585
Al

FCE won't open

My Final Cut Express (and the Quicktime next to it) will not open. They are just sitting on my dock at bottom on screen. When I click on it nothing happens. Per the "Finder" the program has been installed at 239.4 MB. Opened right after I installed it (3 days ago), but now nothing.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Alchroma wrote:
The Alias or shortcut in the Dock can get corrupted, drag it out and it blows up in a puff of smoke.
Now go to Macintosh HD>Applications>Final Cut Express and drag the icon into the Dock.
Double clicking the FCE icon in the Applications folder will also open FCE.
Try again.
Al
If it doesn't open from the applications window, then take a look at your console log and see if an error is recorded there. I had a failure to launch which was in only one account but did list the error that prevented launch. Cleaned out all the FCE stuff and reinstalled and everything was happy.

FCE Won't Open - just installed

I work with a school that is trying to install FCE 4. It seems to install just fine, and when they open it, it starts to load, but then suddenly disappears and nothing opens. They made sure the computer (iBook) met the necessary specs, and other schools I work with have installed it successfully on similar iBooks. We have tried opening it directly from the applications folder instead of the dock to no avail.
After reading some of the other posts, I will suggest to them trashing the preferences, however since they just installed the software and have not used it yet, it doesn't seem to me that restoring the application to it's default settings will change anything, so I'm not optimistic this will help.
Any other thoughts on what could be causing this?
Thanks!

I had a problem that sounds very similar to this. I had to uninstall EVERYTHING (lot's of stuff that you don't know is there), then reinstall. It worked perfectly. Check this out and you'll see a link for how to do it:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1508240&tstart=0

Final Cut Express Won't Open

My computer won't open Final Cut Express. I can click on it, and go through the beginning of the program opening, and then without an error message, the program just closes.
Any ideas?

Same exact thing with me today on a Dual G5. FCE won't open. Stops after five seconds. No messages.
I believe it has to do with setting scratch disks and resulting incomplete pathways to scratch disks. But I don't know how to fix it. When I removed a designated scratch disc, FCE opened. But when I reset a scratch disk, a box opened asking to verify a pathway, but the box had nothing in it. I clicked on "continue" and FCE simply closed again.

FCE4.0.1 won't open when the App Icon is clicked. I've checked all Ext HD (verified prefs)- have trashed the FCE App and reinstalled from FCE discs, have downloaded the Plug In. I clicked on the FCE icon, the windows that says :registered to...and then l

FCE 4.0.1 won't open when I click the icon in the Dock or in the Applications icon of FCE. It had been working well but I had trouble when I trashed the reference Scratch disk to a project and I was asked to get it back. I checked all my drives through verify in Disk Utility and a couple needed repair - eventually were given the OK. I then Shut Down and rebooted, I then trashed the FCE App and reinstalled from the Install discs and , finally, I tried opening a FCE project. None of these caused the FCE App to open with Browser, Viewer, Canvas,. Time Line. All that happens is the the first FCE window, the one that says FCE registered to...and the other that says loading AE Effects, Video Effects does show but then nothing except my Desktop with it's various folders and files I also downloaded the Plug In Tom Wolsky suggested to a recent query.
All I can think of is to backup everything to HDs and take this iMac in for a service.It is only six months old - I reckon it will be poor driving by it's proud but unskilled driver!
James Bowman
New Zealand

Don't panic . . . . . yet!
You may not have trashed FCE properly.
Deleting the application icon is useless as there are a number of files hidden elsewhere which may be corrupt.
Download this free app to uninstall FCE completely and then reinstall it.
FCS Remover - Uninstall Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Compressor, Soundtrack Pro, Color, DVD Studio Pro, LiveType, Cinema Tools
I know it is called FCS Remover but it also works for FCE.

FCE project suddenly won't open in FCE but it will open in FCP???

I've been working on a FCE 3.5 project for a couple weeks. Everyday I save the project under a differently dated name. I finished working on the file for this morning and saved it before closing. When I went to open it this afternoon, it suddenly won't open. Yesterday's file version of it will open though. I tried all different ways of opening todays version but it just won't open. So I tried to open it in FCP 5.1 and it opened up fine. I don't understand what could have happened to the file, that it won't open in FCE but it will open up in FCP? Any guesses.

Hi Fay,
Your method seems like a good one and as you say, makes it easy to spot any problems. I have a big family project involving many hours of kids video which I am editing. I have been filing everything under the one title, using "Save All" each time I finish the session, but in fact I can see the benefits of your method and will now start saving using the date.
Thanks again and good luck with tracking down your file.
Cheers,

FCE project won't open timeline, browser, etc

Hi guys,
Suddenly when I try to open a FCE project, it only plays the finished project. The browser, timeline, canvass, etc are blank like a new project. Theres no way I can do additional editing.
The only project that opens normally is one which was never completed, never exported as a Quicktime movie. Help!
Leesa

Probably, by mistake, you are opening the exported .mov (even if the extension is not visible) in place of the FCE project. When you double click a .mov created by exporting a sequence from FCE, the .mov opens in FCE by default, but it does not have any timeline nor canvas.
If you want to continue editing you must retrieve the FCE Project file (.fcp extension if FCE 3.5) ed open that one.
Piero

FCE won't launch without external disk

I've just noticed that FCE 4.0.1 won't launch unless I have my external disk attached.
The external is set up as the primary scratch disk, and first place for 'search folders'. My MBP is designated as the secondary scratch (video capture only) and second for search folders.
FCE launches immediately with the external attached. Without it, the icon bounces once in the dock, no splash screen appears and soon after the app is shown (in the Force Quit) window as not responding.
Can you tell me what do I need to change to allow FCE simply to open, without the external?

As a test, I deleted the external drive as the nominated scratch disk, and set the MBP as scratch instead.
FCE then opens straightaway.
But that's not the set up I want to have. I'd like the external to store all the media/render files but still be able to launch FCE on the MBP without the scratch in case anything goes awry with the external.
Any ideas what's happening at the moment, and how to fix it?

FCE won't boot ?

FCE was working just fine. I installed Final Cut Pro X and went back and forth between the 2, no issues. Now all of a sudden FCE won't boot up. It goes throught the start up and then just hangs part way up. I tried to delete the preferences but they seem to be missing ?
I recently did the latest updates and everything seemed Ok until I went to open FCE.
I have a a large project to finish that has several pieces, each has been exported as a referenced movie. I am hoping to put all of them together on one project. This is a show stopper for me.
Any ideas?

MartinR wrote:
We need to know what model Mac you are using, what version of OS X and what version of FCE.
Sorry about that, I know better than to leave that info out. I could have just checked the little box and it would all show up in the bottom of my post.
I have a 17" MBP running 10.6.8 with a 2.66GHz i7 , 8MB ram. I use 3 external hard drives. eSTATA and firewire 800.
FCE 4 with the latest updates.
I just ran software update about 4 days ago, and I also plugged in a iPad to update it's software to. But did not sync.
This is the first I have tried to open FCE after the updates.
I can't find the preferences files for FCE, on FCP X ??? They seem to have vanished.

ST won't open old projects

For some reason, when I go to open a previously saved project, Sound Track first says the file is not in the location it once was, which it is, and then when I click to find the file, then locate the file, then select "open" the open window comes back and back and back and back, I click "open" "open" and "open" and it never opens the project.
Even when I go to file, open and then choose the file it says, "Can't find file" "the file was not found in the expected location, and then it gives an erroneous location that is off a bit
it should say /volumes/G-DRIVE/Movies/Sound Track
But instead wants to locate the file at /volumes/G-DRIVE/Movies/Projects/Body by Mike
The folder "Projects" is where I keep my FCE files, "Body By Mike" is a FCE movie I made and used this sountrack called "Body By Mike"
So somehow ST thinks the file is not the file.
Any ideas?
Even when I simply click on the stmp file in the finder ST says the file could not be found, I choose "cancel" and then it says, "The document "Body by Mike.stmp" could not be opened.

This issue is not that Word won't open it. The issue is when Firefox goes to down load it it treats it as a binary file and does not know what to do with it. I would upload an image but I keep getting an error message for a tiff file and a pdf

My FCE won't open??

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