New Toy, FCP won't launch, moderately ticked off

I feel like a total dope, cannot figure this out.
You can believe me when I say I've run through ALL of the obvious and much of not so obvious debugging routines. However, I'm not going to list what I've done because I want you to waste your time and mine with any and all of your sugggestions, maybe I forgot one trick to try.
when I finished migrating and reinstalling a few days ago, FCP worked, as far as I could tell. Today, the FCP splash screen comes up, it gets quickly to "loading video effects" and simply closes.
bogiesan

I'm not sure I understood the post. Did you migrate your apps from a ppc mac to an intel mac?
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Combination of both. No reason not to migrate most of them since they're the same universal versions. Other stuff was installed from scratch. I'm deliberately leaving out these details but Studio was installed from scratch.
There is a tremendous amount of noise about the "dangers of migrating from PPC to Intel. Only amateurs would stoop so low. REAL professionals would never DREAM of attempting to use this shortcut."
It's just not true for 90% of the applications on my systems. Migrating works fine and saves tons of hassle.
bogiesan

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