LiveType/Motion Crash on Launch - Help Needed!

[hotwire132002]

I'm running Final Cut Studio, and for a video I'm currently working on I needed some fancy titles. I went to open LiveType, the splash screen came up, the program loaded for a fraction of a second, and then immediately closed. Motion does the same thing.

I tried finding the crash log (under both the Macintosh HD and home directory libraries) - but there weren't any crash logs for either Motion or LiveType!

Repairing permissions didn't help either. Short of reinstalling Final Cut Studio, does anyone have any ideas as to how I might be able to fix the problem?

Thanks in advance!

[geeman]

Try deleting the pref files for ALL FCP apps. There's a utility called FCP Rescue (you can find it HERE (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14729)) that keeps your FCP prefs so that you don't have to reconfigure everything again.

It seems to be very easy to corrupt FCP with a bad pref file. I'm guessing that LiveType, Motion, etc. are equally fragile.

If this doesn't work, then I think you need to reinstall everything :( . Make sure that you remove any trace of the existing apps before reinstalling.

HTH

[hotwire132002]

Try deleting the pref files for ALL FCP apps. There's a utility called FCP Rescue (you can find it HERE (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14729)) that keeps your FCP prefs so that you don't have to reconfigure everything again.

It seems to be very easy to corrupt FCP with a bad pref file. I'm guessing that LiveType, Motion, etc. are equally fragile.

If this doesn't work, then I think you need to reinstall everything :( . Make sure that you remove any trace of the existing apps before reinstalling.

HTH

Thanks for the advice! I'll try that when I get in to my office today, and I'll let you know how it goes!

[hotwire132002]

Here's the update:

I finally found time to uninstall and reinstall Final Cut Studio. Unfortunately, it didn't fix the problem (and now Compressor won't work either. :()

Does anyone have any other ideas, short of reformatting and reinstalling everything? Thanks in advance if you do!

EDIT: After all that, running software update seems to have done the trick. I thought I already tried that, buy I guess not - I ran Software Update and now everything's working. (Knock on wood.)