I've taken the plunge and upgraded to snow leopard (had FCS 3 installed on Leopard previously). I'm finding that clips which use the standard Earthquake filter which comes with FCP7 (found in filter group "distort") won't render - giving a "general error".

Could some kind soul who also is running FCP7 on Snow Leopard confirm they get the same result when they try to render a clip or title with the Earthquake filter added?

Many thanks.

Works fine with me. I have the FCP 7 & Snow Leopard. I did the test and it renders fine with the added text on the clip.

Thanks very much Rickey; then I have no idea what's going on.

Suspicion: Greg, which video card/how much VRAM do you have?

Thanks for the response Shaun, it wasn't a videocard issue. Turns out that upgrading my Leopard system to Snow Leopard broke my FxPlugins. The simple solution was to download the latest Apple FxPlugin SDK (free download, requires free signup as basic developer) and install. Everything seems to run fine now.