Final Cut Pro 6 shutting down during editing

We are involved in a relatively large still photo montage project set to music with cross dissolves. We do not know how many photos are involved but our guess is 700-900. Some of the photos were imported into FCP6, others were dragged from desktop folders. Reached a point where Final Cut shuts down when editing - can't even move one photo to a new location! Is there a limit to the number of clips/effects you can have in a project? The length is only 27 minutes. Thanks, Kevin

Still images can really bog down FCP. Check the images to see their dimensions, are they much bigger than the frame size in Sequence settings?

--ken

I've had several crashes since going 6.0. I attribute it to two things.

First, My G5 is four years old and the new software sometimes overtaxes it a bit. (BTW, all of FCP Studio 2 applies here).

Second, if I try and move too fast, and I'm no record setter on being fast, sometimes the computer just lapses into that Demonic Spinning Beach Ball mode! And after about 5 minutes of being hypnotized by the darn thing, I'm simply forced to force quit or otherwise restart.

By years end I'm hoping to fix the problem by purchasing a current, state-of-the-art Power Mac! Hey, isn't about $3,000 worth the piece of mind?