Some of you may have experienced the beachball of death when FCPX tries to load a project and eventually resorted to force-quitting the app.

In most cases, the app hasn't hung at all but is just taking a really long time to open the project. If you leave it long enough (8-12 hours) it should eventually open. We recommend running our Project Repair tool to optimize the project file before doing this, as the optimization process lowers the file size and can shave off some loading time.

The reason it is taking so long is that the project has become too complex. A common cause of this is over-use of compound clips, especially compound clips inside multiclips. I have seen this lead to multi-gigabyte project files, even though the timeline was only a few minutes long.

Once the project opens successfully, begin the process of removing the compound clips. FCPX will hang for a short while whenever you try to do anything, but as you reduce the number of compound clips it will become more and more responsive.

After a little hiatus, Bugs of the Week is back with more serious, interesting or unusual bugs for your NLE.

Premiere

Premiere doesn't have a disk-based thumbnail cache so all thumbnails need to be regenerated upon opening a project

Premiere has a 99 track limit which limits the number of possible layers in a PSD file

You cannot move a clip by typing in numbers if your keyboard doesn't have a numpad

Dip to White start value is ignored with CUDA acceleration enabled

Speech recognition modifies the script

If Premiere crashes and won't relaunch, check that the process is no still running (Windows)

Trick for match-framing to a sequence in a nest

Avid

Summary of some of the changes in Media Composer 6.5.2 (improved trimming performance is huge if true)

Surround channels can be incorrectly assigned when imported from Pro Tools

Blue color shift with Avid FX

Misc

Thunderbolt devices can be disrupted by mobile phone signals (apparently this can also affect FireWire)

Here are some more critical, useful and bizarre bugs that you should know about.

Premiere Pro

Canon C300 spanned clips can be merged in the wrong order

Premiere processes all audio clips in a sequence, even when only exporting a small section

Clip markers disappear after reconnecting media

Several reports of render files disappearing

Premiere may not load after updating QuickTime to 7.7.3 (Win 7)

H.264 CBR is not constant

Incorrect in and out points in subclips when importing FCP XML

Premiere hangs when opening a project on a computer with fewer monitors than the one it was saved on

Unable to name a captured clip if capture is stopped

Switching to "H.264 for Blu-ray" preset causes bitrate option to disappear

Audio out of sync when exported as AAC

Positions in the title editor are relative to the center of the object so it is difficult to line up left/right aligned text

FCPX

FCPX 10.0.7 released with several major bug fixes

You may experience problems running plugins and Motion templates created for 10.0.6 on earlier versions

Upside-down frames from plugins not fixed in 10.0.7

Cannot eject external drives while FCPX is running

Several reports of frames not being shown in the timeline

FCP 7

How to Fix Red Exclamation Mark Error in FCP7 Log & Transfer

Another installment of our weekly list of serious, useful and bizarre bugs in your NLE that you should know about.

Premiere

Potential fix for slow playback

Project Manager does not copy spanned AVCHD clips

Titler adjustment handles invisible on white backgrounds

Timeline scrolling with the scrollwheel slower in CS6

CUDA crashes on Windows 7 (includes lots of tips and a registry tweak)

Premiere crash when sending merged clips to Audition

Avid

Trick for getting Avid to ignore a drive

Bins can appear off-screen when opening a project created on a system with a larger monitor

You may need to delete the AVCHD AMA plugin before updating to a newer version

System audio can only be heard if Avid is active

Fix for "expand luminance range for computer displays" not working

FCPX

New AJA Kona drivers with support for automatic FCPX event creation

Green flashes can occur if FCPX drops frames

"Cannot save changes" error appears when using third-party plugins

Cannot switch to other clips after applying settings in the Inspector

Lots of reports of sharing problems, primarily when burning DVDs

Several reports of audio turning red in the timeline

FCP 7

With the playhead on the clip, hitting Option + Down Arrow on a clip collision causes the clip to shift one pixel down - Strypes

Here's another installment of our weekly list of critical, useful or bizarre bugs that you should know about.

Premiere

Solution for being unable to play back on second monitor

Video freezes when a transition is used on an adjustment layer

Projects sometimes forget audio configuration

Premiere sometimes loses Dynamic-Linked renders

Avid

Problems syncing stereoscopic EDLs

Alpha channels not recognized in ProRes 4444 media with MC 6.5

Windows tool for fixing DISK_ACCESS_DENIED errors

Crash on startup if you are using a case-sensitive formatted hard drive

FCPX

Workaround for setting in and out points in the new Import window

FCPX sometimes deletes media when you try to relink it

Text may be rendered incorrectly

Another installment of our (semi-) weekly list of important, interesting or unusual bugs in popular NLEs.

Premiere

Many people reporting problems with NVIDIA driver 306.97 for the GTX285 on Windows

Corrupt JPEG headers can cause Premiere to reference the wrong file

The Encore process doesn't stop when quitting Encore on Windows

Premiere crashes when you reanalyze a clip with the Warp Stabilizer effect switched off

To export H.264 video in higher than 1080p resolutions, you must be using H.264 Level 5.0 or 5.1

Premiere crashes if dynamically-linked applications are not closed before it exits

Workflow notes from an FCP switcher, including several bugs and workarounds

Avid

Media Composer 6.0.3.2 released

Several complaints about waveform drawing times

New Blackmagic 9.6.8 driver improves Media Composer 6.0.3.2 trimming performance

Media Composer doesn't remember settings when outputting more than 8 audio channels

Symphony appears to use 12-bit data for color correction when a ProRes 4444 file is fast imported

AMA can sometimes misinterpret and clamp luma levels from some QuickTime sources

Issue with Avid only keeping a few copies of a bin in the Attic (Pro Versioner can help with this):

FCPX

10.0.6 stability discussion

Many threads about 10.0.6 users being unable to Share or it being very slow

Exported audio levels not matching audio meters

Several threads about reduced responsiveness in 10.0.6

Titles may be shortened when uploading to Vimeo if they contain an ampersand

Encore

Here's one I had myself this week - encoding an H.264 for Blu-ray and an MPEG-2 for DVD in Adobe Media Encoder from the same ProRes 4444 source resulted in them being labelled as different lengths by both QuickTime Player and Encore. However, they both had the same start point and end point, were the same frame rate and the audio matched up perfectly so it would appear to be an issue with how the duration was reported. The strange part was that it occurred even after I re-encoded the file in Compressor.

The reason this was a problem is because Encore has a great feature where you can link Blu-ray and DVD media to create both types of disc from the same project. However, this feature relies on both files being of identical length. In the end my workaround was to simply duplicate the project and create a separate copy for the DVD version.

FCP 7

Autosaves not appearing in interface after restart

Trick for quickly revealing a sequence in the browser

Cinema Tools

Cinema Tools expects certain fields to use alphanumeric characters only

Here's your second installment this week of critical, interesting or bizzare issues you should know about.

Avid

MC 6.5.0.1 released with XDCAM Edit While Capture support and several AMA improvements

New Sony AMA plugins to support the new XDCAM features of 6.5.0.1

Trick for improving Avid shared storage workflows

MC 6.5 requires less RAM for stereoscopic workflows

Subcap cuts off text

Discussion about the best Blackmagic drivers to use for Avid

Premiere

Reveal in Finder not working in OS X 10.8.2

Exporting MP4s without audio creates M4Vs that are unreadable in most apps

FCPX

Issues with third-party plugins showing upside down frames

We missed last week's post and were going to combine them with this week's, however Apple released FCPX 10.0.6 which introduced new bugs that we wanted people to be aware of.

Premiere

Issues moving clips with a pen / tablet (via Strypes)

Dynamic link failure caused by RelevantKnowledge malware (Windows)

Changing the scale causes playback corruption

Wrong interface fonts

Audio offline after sending to Prelude

FCPX

FCPX 10.0.6 released

Many third party plugins have rendering issues

The Offset option has been removed from the Letterbox effect

Memory usage has been reduced

Several reports of FCPX insisting on dual-layer DVD media unnecessarily

You cannot search in the new Import dialog

Blu-ray and Export using Compressor Setting have been moved to the Add Destination section of the Share window

Color picker stops functioning with multiple layers

You need to Break Apart Clip Items twice if you have dual mono audio

Core Image filters have been removed from Motion 5.0.5

FCPX 10.0.6 renders a lot faster

Duplicate backups can cause FCPX to be unable to save your project

Avid

ISIS client 4.2 beta with OS X 10.8 support

Title tool goes opaque the second time you launch it

New Canon AMA plugin

Here's another installment of our weekly list of serious, interesting or bizarre bugs in various NLEs.

Premiere Pro

Blackmagic 9.6.6 drivers may reduce Premiere latency

Several users are reporting the inability to send clips to Audition after installing the latest Dynamic Link update

Workaround for Premiere not exporting to Media Encoder queue

Reference window will now update when RGB Color Corrector is applied to a clip

Workaround for audio clips turning red when loading a project

Audio channel limitations for various containers

Avid

OS X 10.7.5 and 10.8.2 now qualified for MC and Symphony 6.5

Media Composer 6.5 stability discussion

Here's another pick of series, interesting or useful bugs we came across this week.

Premiere

Can't export to QuickTime H.264 or DNxHD (Windows)

Subclip descriptions set in Prelude do not show up in Premiere

Fix for Premiere Pro "Media Pending" error

Avid

Moving the playhead in QuickTime Player changes the source timecode

Fix for DISK_FILE_ALREADY_EXISTS error on Unity

Dupes are detected on effect tracks

After Effects

After Effects CS6 11.0.2 released with bug fixes and new CUDA GPU support

Compressor

Fix for Compressor 3.5 crashing at startup