alright first things first,
I have a g4 laptop, i dont have the money to upgrade even if i could, my hardware is at max capacity, and i dont think without changing both my hardrive and ram out which i cant afford to do, i couold even get this old thing to work any harder than im pushing it right now.
However, it has been working solid for over a month on what i got, i hadnt changed anything in fcp4 not 4.1 not 4.5 just 4.0 but i did download msn, also, i started another project. I only had about 3 tabs open, one of which was just the score, the culprit sequence that crashed was a 5 min video loop of layered cockroaches, two mattes and a basement layrer for lack of the professional term. The problem started when i tried to copy and paste the rendered files (because it was a loop) first off paste took forever, then i couldnt even copy without getting the beachball of death. So i let my computer take a century to copy and paste into a new sequence the 4 second loop i exported that loop in the new sequence, and brought it back into fcp to loop that thinking it would help my memory. No it crashed as well. So i closed fcp trashed prefs, deleted cache, deleted msn messanger, restarted my computer, reset my p ram, restared everything, only using fcp, (before i was able to run fcp and creative cow at the same time, maybe i was just lucky, but it was working side by side)
i even tried chaning the audio playback from firewire which is what it was on to built in, at the suggestion of a thread i found using google, not the cow. Nada, Now i cant even open my sequence. My project says out of memory.
Since i figured my project might be to large, i deleted almost everything out of it but said sequence i need to use,
restarted fcp, still the same.
Found this
http://www.lafcpug.org/phorum/read.php?11,153270,166563#msg-166563
the only thing i have yet to do apart from buying a new computer is repair permissions, so im going to go do that. If things get better or worse ill post, for future reference in a search.
perhaps i am a whiney kid,
also so this is an all volenteer force,
which means if you dont get paid why bother writing a response that does not help? Why bother comming on here at all if you are going to just waste everyones time by posting something like, search the forums. I tried searching the forums. If you do not want to answer the question Please do not answer the question, you are only wasting space.
second, david, you have helped me ill give you that, but you did come across as a better than when you did. Now i understand you are a professional, but i was asking a question, and did not need a smart ass reply about you all being professionals making me feel inferior.
Also, i know this is a free forum, i did not know, as other people didnt know apparently that the mods on this forum come here in their free time. Thank you for those people who take time out of their busy day to check and respond helping us little guys who are not out to steal jobs, (even though i said i was) continue to do things we love to do.
I also understand this is an internet forum, and people will use the anonymity of the internet and the text language rather than face to face is a perfect tool to boost egos and protect identities.
What im getting at, is this,
if you want to take your frustrations out on people who are asking repetitive questions, realize neither party will be helped.
Also this being the fix action, will only encourage more of the same question, as searches wont be an option as they will all turn up dead ends.
so do everyone a favor, and if you want to type a response to a question, make it an answer. or just another question.
and david, i respect you as a professional. You know your shit, ill give you that, but im sure you were a new user at some point, try not to forget that.
oh and thanks shane you helped me out of many-a-pickels so far as well.
