Final Cut Pro X and Yosemite

After a few days of flitting around in FCPX on Yosemite i'm going to have do a clean install it seems. Straight away I'm getting projects that are corrupt, no real reason why and files that are now in need of relinking in the timeline even though they are in the browser. I have quite a few plugins from various venders, i'm hoping its something in there just messing things up. Latest problem is importing media and no thumbnails show up in the browser, very odd and all in all a bit of a nightmare.

Dean

I take it you've tried deleting preferences by starting up with command-option?

Refreshing the old preferences is indeed the first thing to do when you see such things happening. You could also,try to do a repair permissions on your system drive, maybe that would take care of at least some of the issues you are reporting. But if the problems are so extensive and none of these solutions help then yes, a clean install is advised. BTW you can first try to create a new admin user and see if FCP X works fine with this user.

- Ronny

thanks guys, yes trashed preferences, i'll try a 'repair permissions' now, see how that goes.

@scrubelicious Did you solve your crash of DPDecoder at startup ? I've just upgraded and I am experiencing that crash too.

manoucho wrote: @scrubelicious Did you solve your crash of DPDecoder at startup ? I've just upgraded and I am experiencing that crash too.

Since I took off DaVince Resolve Lite I haven't had the issue. It is defiantly DaVince related.

But I will gibe a try tomorrow when I hit back to the cave (Studio).

Thanks for having a look at it, I'm curious indeed if you still have it! I confirm it's from Resolve

For what it's worth, I had the same issue with dpdecoder crashing but it went away once I updated to the latest Blackmagic device drivers.

Actually it's a pretty good info but I only have Resolve Lite, no hardware. Is there any driver I can update ?

manoucho wrote: Thanks for having a look at it, I'm curious indeed if you still have it! I confirm it's from Resolve

Morning morning, I just installed the latest and greatest version of DaVinci Resolve 11 on one of the Mac Pro (Late 2013) with OS X 10.10.1... and the error message did not show. It also started up and seems to function has should.

Try uninstalling it and reinstall see what the brings?

Cheers

Well actually after a couple of reboots, the issue has diseappeared just like magic. Fun! Thanks for your help guys.

I've upgraded to Yosemite and then upgraded FCP and the library to 10.1.4 from 10.?.?.

My issue is that some .mov clips would not play. I tried opening them in QTX and VLC and they won't play. After some searching I dl QT7 and they will open in QT7 and if I re-save them, they are fine. The thing is that if I go through my hd's and find a whack of clips that need to be resaved this would be time consuming. Has anybody run into this issue? I could leave some old projects alone but would like to fix this issue that is fixable now, that may not be after future updates. MBP Late 2010.

I am always too fast on that update button. You'd think I learned my lesson way back when OS X was first released....

Anyway, I am having major problems with FxFactory plugins, specifically, the Motype generators, since I updated to Yosemite. They simply refuse to render all the way through, and crash my system. The computer tells me the "FxFactory plugin 'Patches' has crashed," which seems to be located in Library > Graphics > Quartz Composer Plug-Ins ƒ.

I've tried everything from using only Proxy clips to trashing prefs, restarting, fixing user permissions, not stacking the generators over each other....but even fully rendering one throws my computer into such a bind that it has begun crashing the whole system. Actually freezing the Mac--which nothing usually does.

Such a shame...I just shelled out a bunch of loot for three new FxFactory bundles. And was shooting for a deadline I'm sure I"m going to miss now.

Mac Pro (Mid 2010)
2 x 2.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
24 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC
ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB
Two monitors, 8 TB


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UPDATE:

After some more playing around, crashing, trying different things etc... It seems that perhaps the Yanobox Motype plugins from FxFactory are not the problem, themselves; nor the combination with Yosemite, necessarily. The rendering and freezing issues definitely arise when using the "Blur" generators, tho. Ex: "Motype Long Trailing Blur" and "Motype Rotational Blur" are two. Being so beautiful, they clearly are highly intensive. I suppose on top of the other effects I am using on the video clips underneath (slowed timing combined with some fx), it is just too much for my machine, perhaps.

Funny...I thought shelling out for a big ole Mac Pro with 24 GB of RAM would put me in the clouds, far beyond such mortal concerns! Silly me. :whistle:

There are TONS of editors who are using your setup, so it is probably something old in there that is causing problems. You updated FXFactory right?

Hi,

After much stressing and crashing and trial and error, I managed to finish the commercial spot, and on deadline, too. Whew.

To answer the question, yes. I am current on updates on all apps. This tendency of mine to update fast carries across the board. Often, it means fixes; sometimes it means bugs.

I think I was just stressing my CPU. I can stack two non-blur Motype generators on top of a clip (with some heavy processing being done on it already due to effects and timing), but the blur variety cannot be double stacked without crashing. I can do one blur generator by itself on the timeline, but if I try to stack another, or do it over too complex a clip, I get crashing etc.

Even finishing up the entire piece, sometimes I'd crash out of the blue. But I just opened up back up, and went at it again. Being careful.

I am guessing that I am now back at a point where the computer needs to be babied. It's been a while. It's a pretty powerful computer...but it's 2015, not mid-2010 anymore. Despite the dual core processor and the huge amount of RAM I have, the new FCPX and the new generators on top of the intensely manipulated clips I am known for have led me to a point, again, where if I add too much stress on top of it all, it comes down.

Reminds me of trying to use the first FCP on my old Mac 9600. Well. Not that bad! I'm being dramatic.

Thanks.

I have been waiting to upgrade to Yosemite because of all the problems with FCPX and other apps. Is it safe to upgrade to Yosemite or should I wait longer? I'm running 10.1.4 on FCPX .

Neguah wrote: I have been waiting to upgrade to Yosemite because of all the problems with FCPX and other apps. Is it safe to upgrade to Yosemite or should I wait longer? I'm running 10.1.4 on FCPX .

Well, in my case anyway, it has been safe to update to Yosemite since the public beta. So, yes.

I've been running Yosemite since middle of last December 2014. So far everything seems to be running smoothly. Even my old out dated and unsupported version of Bento runs! I was actually more afraid that wouldn't work, since that is my entire database of 4000 contacts. Someday I'll have to make other plans for that....

I think that some people have reported some bugs here and there, but non that have stopped any major workflow.

Jonathan

Just verify any third party hardware and plugins have updated drivers/versions. But that's pretty much all been done by now. I have great stability and performance with the latest versions of FCPX and OS X.

No problems for me either!