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  • Assertion Failed Multicam

    Posted by Richard Sanchez on September 1, 2010 at 8:52 pm

    I’ve set up a multigroup for my editor, but when he switches to mutlicam mode, he recieves the following error.

    Assertion failed: info. SetReservedBuffers(numReserved,

    multicamChannelNum)

    File: S:\coresw\ACME\src\ResourceStatus.cpp, line: 202

    He’s one of three bays on our Unity system, all of us using Media Composer 4.0.5 on Windows XP Pro machines. I noticed he had a ton of bins open and thought it might be using up all of his available memory, but that didn’t seem to solve it, and I also trashed the database files and let those be rebuilt.

    Richard Sanchez
    North Hollywood, CA

    “We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

    Richard Sanchez replied 15 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • John Pale

    September 2, 2010 at 3:22 am

    Do the clips play individually (not in a group clip)?

    Do all group clips behave this way?

    What resolution is the material?

    If you click on the playback quality setting at the bottom of the timeline (and reduce it to half yellow/half green) can you play back in multicam?

  • Richard Sanchez

    September 2, 2010 at 6:41 am

    I’ll test if they play individually. Many group clips were causing this error. Resolution is 15:1s. I believe that resolution was set to half, but I’ll confirm that.

    Richard Sanchez
    North Hollywood, CA

    “We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

  • Richard Sanchez

    September 7, 2010 at 2:00 pm

    The resolution was set to full, and as soon as we set the resolution to half, it played back with no problem. Strange that it would struggle with three streams of 15:1s but it’s working.

    Richard Sanchez
    North Hollywood, CA

    “We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

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