I'm wondering if anyone else has had this type of experience. You're editing along merrily on your Final Cut system when, suddenly, the dreaded "beach ball of death" appears, and after a few seconds, you get the dialog box telling you that "Final Cut Pro has quit unexpectedly," and usually due to some plug-in or another that you're using. It seems random, and as the dialog box so beautifully put it, unexpected.
There seems to be no rhyme or reason why something like this would happen. It can be due to a Boris plug-in, or an AJA driver, or an unknown cause. The good thing: Unlike Windows, you can simply re-start the application (keeping your fingers crossed that it doesn't happen again), or as I do, just restart the computer.
I'm wondering if there's not some sort of memory leak happening. I remember in the early days of Avid on the Mac, when it would simply grind to a halt and you'd have to restart. The same thing happened on Windows-based Avids much later. Anybody else had any experience with this phenomenon, and what can be done to stop it?
Posted by: Dan Dennis on Feb 18, 2009 at 5:27:30 am
that's an odd one eh. i get problems when i try to start FCP sometimes but never in the middle of a job. things like that used to happen in Premiere Pro all the time, that's why i gave up that. In fact, I think the only thing I ever use that crashes my macs comes from Adobe - ha! Oh, I forgot about Compressor. Never mind...
I don't know what the folks at Creative Cow were thinking, but letting just anybody have a blog...bad juju, mon. :-)
A little about myself - I'm a producer/director/editor/writer/voice-talent/videographer/compositor/graphic-designer/chief-cook-and-bottle-washer for a manufacturing company in Texas. (And we'll leave it at that.) I've been doing this since Sony BVU-110s were in vogue (and I was just barely strong enough to carry one), and, like you, I've seen a lot of changes in the video/broadcast world, and the world in general. My, it's been a strange 30 years or so, hasn't it?
I'm currently learning my way around Final Cut Pro, just when I thought I had the Avid Media Composer licked. But as I read somewhere, if you can learn one system, you can learn them all. So I am. I'm also learning a lot about Adobe After Effects, and I feel my brain expanding with each new day. (Or maybe that's just a sinus headache.)
Anyway, I've made use of the collective brainpower available at the Cow, and I'm hopeful that I've got some knowledge that might be helpful for some poor, lost soul.
But a blog? In the wrong hands, that can be a dangerous weapon, or merely a waste of words and bandwidth. Or it can be a force for good in the world. My guess is, this will fall somewhere short of the latter, and probably closer to the former. But, here goes nothin'!
