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Old May 21st, 2007, 11:58 PM   #1
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Major problem w FCP 5.1.2

Hey guys - I'm having a very nasty black screen of death episode on my G5 Intel quad 2.66.

A project I created on this machine in FCP 5.1.2 will now simply not open. Everytime I try to open it I get the black screen that tells me I need to restart by holding down the power button. All my other projects open - its just this one that won't.

What is really weird is that thism project will open on other machines - Intels and Power Macs.

I think it may have something to do with the log notes, because when I reimpoertd the media into another project, took this new project to a machine that would open my original project, and then copied the log notes across, the new project corrupted as well when I tried to open it on my Intel.

Any ideas?
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Old May 22nd, 2007, 12:21 AM   #2
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Have you tried to open one of the FCP autosave files?.

If you can open the file on an other mac, can you use relink the media and then use media manager to export the project into a new project?.

Or trashing the FCP prefs.
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Old May 22nd, 2007, 02:03 AM   #3
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Good idea re autosave but had already deleted prefs.

The really bizarre thing is that after a day of trying all sorts of things, the project has just started opening. Think the computer must be the prob, I was getting lots of -600 error message codes all day as well. Pretty sure it is a first generation Intel thing as we've had big probs with another Intel at work as well.

Thanks for your suggestions!
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Old May 22nd, 2007, 10:21 AM   #4
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Good idea re autosave but had already deleted prefs.

The really bizarre thing is that after a day of trying all sorts of things, the project has just started opening. Think the computer must be the prob, I was getting lots of -600 error message codes all day as well. Pretty sure it is a first generation Intel thing as we've had big probs with another Intel at work as well.

Thanks for your suggestions!
I hope you have your stuff backed up because it could be the hard drive is getting ready to fail

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Old May 22nd, 2007, 12:23 PM   #5
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I just had the same problem. I loaded an old project that was backed up on dvd. Turns out when I copied it back to hard drive, the files where locked. Do a "get info" or top folder, go to bottom and unlock permissions, then apply to all enclosed files....that's what worked for me.

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