Final Cut 6 crashes on open after upgrading to Leopard
by george mizzell
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Aug 9, 2008 at 6:48:58 am
I have a Mac Pro with 4 GB ram and 2 - 500 GB drives and 2 - 1 TB drives and I just upgraded to Leopard after waiting nearly a year to do so. I was hoping that Apple would have had time to work out all the bugs. Naturally it runs fine but my first click on FC just crashes. I tried googling to see if there were any problems between FC and leopard and found nothing except a couple of reports from people with G5s or with earlier versions. I have the latest FC updates and still it fails to function as advertised. I only have a few apps on this computer - FC studio 2, Office 2004 and a few small things related to video players like Divx and Veoh player.
I use FC about 70% of the time on this computer and 25% is using Office 2004 apps. However it does need to work. I did not find anything on this happening so I proceeded to install. Motion and DVD Studio work fine. Only FC was overlooked by Apple.
Other than the ideas about completely wiping the hard drive and wasting many hours reinstalling everything from scratch does anyone have better ideas? I would really appreciate the help. The Creative Cow forum has saved my bacon several times previously and I hope I can enjoy a repeat performance:).
Re: Final Cut 6 crashes on open after upgrading to Leopard by David Roth Weiss on Aug 9, 2008 at 7:19:21 am
Have you done all of the updates and kept updating and rebooting until you recieved the message "your software is up to date?" If not, there's your problem.
Do you have a Kona card by chance? If so uninstall the drivers using their uninstall utilty and then reinstall.
David Roth Weiss
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Re: Final Cut 6 crashes on open after upgrading to Leopard by george mizzell on Aug 9, 2008 at 1:40:00 pm
David
Thanks. I did not realize that when Apple does a software update scan that it only half way does the job. I am now going through these successive updates.
Re: Final Cut 6 crashes on open after upgrading to Leopard by george mizzell on Aug 9, 2008 at 1:59:06 pm
Great idea. After the first of these successive updates Final Cut is working again. I don't know if other problems will ensure later but this has resolved my original issue.
Re: Final Cut 6 crashes on open after upgrading to Leopard by george mizzell on Aug 9, 2008 at 1:43:15 pm
I let the OS X do the upgrade. Obviously that should work. I know with all Microsoft OS products that it is best to do clean installs but I thought Apple was better than MS. I guess not. I am working my way through all the upgrades before I resort to that. I would not erase my main drive, instead I will buy a new drive and install on it, if Apple can't fix the problem.
Re: Final Cut 6 crashes on open after upgrading to Leopard by Zane Barker on Aug 9, 2008 at 4:46:22 pm
[george mizzell]"I let the OS X do the upgrade. Obviously that should work. I know with all Microsoft OS products that it is best to do clean installs but I thought Apple was better than MS. "
It really has nothing to do with that at all. Its kinda like painting over old paint no matter how nice the new layer of paint is it is still just on top of old cracking paint, instead of stripping the old paint and painting it clean.
Its the same with ANY computer operating system.
Ifs fine just running updates to a OS, but any time you move to a new OS all together I always recommend a clean install.
[george mizzell]"I did not realize that when Apple does a software update scan that it only half way does the job"
It does a FULL job, but some updates cannot install with out a previous update installed first.
There are no "technical solutions" to your "artistic problems".
Don't let technology get in the way of your creativity!
Re: Final Cut 6 crashes on open after upgrading to Leopard by walter biscardi on Aug 9, 2008 at 9:20:36 pm
[george mizzell]"I let the OS X do the upgrade. Obviously that should work."
No actually it doesn't work reliably. We've been posting this information on this forum for years now. With professional applications it is best to do a complete re-install of the OS every time you make a major OS move like Tiger to Leopard.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.
Re: Final Cut 6 crashes on open after upgrading to Leopard by walter biscardi on Aug 9, 2008 at 12:43:25 pm
[george mizzell]"I have a Mac Pro with 4 GB ram and 2 - 500 GB drives and 2 - 1 TB drives and I just upgraded to Leopard after waiting nearly a year to do so. I was hoping that Apple would have had time to work out all the bugs"
If you did not do an erase and install of Leopard, then you need to stop and start again.
Erase the main system drive, install Leopard.
Run all the software updates
Install Studio 2
run all the software updates.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.
