Faulty Final Cut Studio Disc

Holy Harry

Holy Harry

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A couple of months ago I bought a new Mac Pro with Final Cut Studio, direct from Apple. I was loading up FCS as per instructions, doing just fine, until I popped the third disc in. A couple of minutes in and my new Mac spat it out, telling me data was corrupt. Closer examination of the disc revealed that it was damaged (weird bubble in the centre). Apple replaced it for me without too much fuss, and I continued where I left off.

Here's my query. One source has told me that I when I received my replacemant disc I should have completely wiped my harddrive, reinstalled OS X, then reinstalled FCS from scratch. This would have ensured there would be no glitches in the future when using FCP.

A couple of times since then FCP and Soundtrack Pro have suddenly crashed, no explanation. This is my first time using a Mac and FCS. My question is this... is this relatively normal behaviour, or should I wipe and reload?

If this is a stoopid question, my apologies!
 
When buying a mac or pc its a good Idea to reformat your drive or drives and build them up from the disks that come with your computer model. The reason for this is that Apple and every other maker puts gerneric os's on the drive in Mexico or the Phillipines. You get stuff on there thats not really specific to your machine. I have been building up drives for many customers and myself for many years and have found to have a lot less problems when you start new from scratch and bulid your drives up with the disks supplied with each machine. I personally always use a array for my OSX. Two sata drives 7200, 8 or 16mb are fine. You end up getting 10 or 15% more speed out of your machine. !0,000 rpm drives would give you a little more speed but I can't justify the cost of the faster drives. Your drives are worked less and I have had better luck not losing my OS drives this way. This process gives you a knowledge of exactly what is on your machine. I always tell people to reformat and rebulid from the disks as soon as they get their new machines. Good luck in the future.

PS: If you are going to render alot the array saves a little time but this can add up and will justify the cost of the extra drive and faster drives along with as much ram as you can afford to put in your box.
 
Stupid questions don't excist! I think it is normal behavior (if you can call crashing normal), because I have had it a couple of times and I heard others talking about it too. I have no explanation for it, but it happens when I have Final Cut and Soundtrack Pro open and when I work on both. Somehow when I work on the track in Soundtrack Pro and go to Final Cut to see the changes, it has a tendensy to crash. Make sure you save a lot of times...

Cheers
 
Niels Neeskens said:
it happens when I have Final Cut and Soundtrack Pro open and when I work on both.
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Yes Neils, that's exactly what I was doing before the crash. Autosave didn't seem to have done it's job, and I've been saving manualy since then.

As I'm still getting to grips with the world of Mac, I think I will hold out as I am for now, and if the crashing becomes a frequent problem, I will take the plunge and follow Michaels advice.

Thank you both very much, really appreciate the feedback!
 
There is absolutly no need to reformat your drive. Install FCS with the new disk, you'll be fine. If there are apps you don't want, like iMovie or iDVD, just do a search for "iMovie" for example, and trash everything it comes up with for iMovie. You'll be just fine.

If you're really curious, get the Optimizing Your Final Cut Pro System book. It'll answer every question I've seen on these forums.

As for crashing, you'd need to give us your FCS version number, Mac model, and hard drive/RAM config. Otherwise there's not enough info to answer your crashing question.
 
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