FCP suddenly beachballing suddenly, can't find a solution

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FCP suddenly beachballing suddenly, can't find a solution

Hi! I am running the Final Cut Pro free trial. I have been using it without issue, but haven't touched in a few weeks. I opened it up today to work on a WIP project, and it kept crashing and beachballing.

I only make short videos (max 5 minutes long) and always keep the files in place on an external hardrive. However, I noticed the library size was huge, so I deleted the generated/render files (including the optimized and proxy files). It went from 369GB down to something like 5GB within minutes. The application could now open without crashing immediately, but every time I tried to click ANYTHING (including the play button), it just beachballed and then I couldn't do anything else and had to force quit. When I force quit the app, it said "Final Cut Pro is not responding".

I have tried turning my Macbook on and off - didn't work.

I have tried deleting the FCP application and reinstalling - also didn't work.

I have checked my CPU and RAM usage in Activity Monitor, and nothing seems to be amiss.

PLEASE, can someone give some suggestions about how to fix this? I'm getting really fed up and not sure what else to try. Like I said, this was working fine the last time I used it a few weeks ago, so I am not sure what has happened to make it suddenly behave like this.

Laptop stats below:

MacBook Pro, 13 inch, 2019, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports

Processor: 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7

Graphics: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 1536 MB

Memory: 16GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3

macOS: macOS Sonoma, version 14.5

Storage: 401.81 GB available of 499.96 GB

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 13.3

Posted on Jul 15, 2024 6:32 AM

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Answer 1

Tom Wolsky

Level 10

151,542 points

Jul 15, 2024 7:08 AM in response to tip_toes

"a WIP project" ?

Please post an EtreCheck report https://etrecheck.com giving the application Full Disk Access in Privacy & Security System Settings. Copy the report and use the Add Text button to paste the result into reply box.

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Answer 2

Tom Wolsky

Level 10

151,542 points

Jul 15, 2024 8:06 AM in response to tip_toes

This system has experienced kernel panics. This could be a sign of hardware failure.

[Loaded] com.google.GoogleUpdater.wake.plist (Google LLC - installed 2024-06-18)
    Command: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/GoogleUpdater/Current/GoogleUpdater.app/Contents/MacOS/GoogleUpdater --wake-all --enable-logging --vmodule=*/components/update_client/*=2,*/chrome/updater/*=2

  [Not Loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (Not signed - installed 2023-12-06)
    <Empty>

  [Not Loaded] com.google.keystone.xpcservice.plist (Not signed - installed 2023-12-06)
    <Empty>

You need to do a complete uninstall of Chrome and its keystone daemons and then reinstall FCP. https://chromeisbad.com explains how.

Start there. Trash settings every time there's a crash or force quit.

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