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Can’t render small section of sequence, wierd problem…
Hola,
I’ve been trying to no avail to render a two minute section of a long letterboxed anamorphic sequence. There’s nothing fancy about the section (i.e. there are no filters applied). and it does play in preview mode. I get an “insufficient disk space” error when i try to render it, but i still have about 75 gigs of space on my scratch disk. Other sections of about the same size with more filters on them took up about 1 gig each.
Any suggestions?
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3 Replies
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IF you can find nothing unique about this particular clip (and you have all of the “Render choices” checked in the pulldown menu)…
The first thing to always try is to Quit FCP, Restart the Mac, Open your FCP project and try again.
Next:
THE FOLLOWING COMES FROM THE KEN STONE WEBSITE:
“Over 5,000 years ago Confucius wrote: ‘If you are toiling away, you have changed nothing and FCP heads South on you, [starts behaving in strange ways] then it is time to trash your FCP Preferences.’ ”Click the following link for instructions.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
A great way to do this is to use “FCP Rescue” a free Apple Script that will Trash the Preferences for you (and restore nearly all of your user settings afterward).
There are versions for FCPro & FCExpress.Download these free Apple Scripts at
https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/
This is one FCP tip that has helped in hundreds of “odd” problems.
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Ok… here’s a question. How big is your drive array? If your drives are pretty full and you have 75 gig left, then that would be your problem. FCP will protect you from completely filling your drives as a precautionary measure. If that’s not the problem, check to see if you are rendering to the correct drive. Otherwise, trashing your preferences would be the best solution. Give that a try!
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions -
I had the same problem this morning (of course the program is due today!). I ran into a problem of having a section of the timeline that just wouldn’t render. I did all the usual procedures, but to no avail. Finally, I read further down the fcp cow that an unrecognized file could cause this problem. Unfortunately, in FCP 5 there seems to be a bug that doesn’t make offline files recognizable in the timeline. They just look like normal clips, but are really offline. After I located the offending clip the timeline resumed normal rendering.
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