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DESPERATE: Out of memory error with IMPENDING DEADLINE!!
Hi,
I’ve been having “error: out of memory” messages recently on a big project (the project file itself is around 140MB). They were annoying but not too much of a problem, it happened every 15 mins or so, the message came up, the canvas went red, but then it went away again.
BUT NOW:
I opened the project after an all-night rendering session, and none of the sequences will open. Whenever I click on a sequence, i get the “error: out of memory” message.
Please help.
The drive i have as scratch disk scratch has around 8 Gig free.
Running FCP 5 on a Dual 2 Ghz Powermac,
1 Gig RAM
Mac OS X Panther
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7 Replies
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Try Trashing your Prefs,,,,,,if you haven’t already, do a search in the forum on “trashing your prefs” it’s a common thread.
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1 gig of ram is very low. If you’re working with large projects, more RAM will absolutely make your day go smoother.
Go buy yourself some more ram. 2 gigs good. 4 gigs better!!!
Mark
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Oh yeah…WAY too little memory…you need at least one more GB, like Mark said.
Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
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Along with what everyone else said, 8 gigs free on your scratch disk seems really low. Do you have it on your system drive? You should get an external drive with more memory for your scratch disk/media. Check your system settings for minimum allowable free space on your scratch disk. Recommended is 10% of the size of your the disk drive you have it on.
You may also have a bad render file. Close FCP, trash all your render files (you can always rerender) and see if you can reopen your sequence.
Boyd
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[mushyosh] “I’ve been having “error: out of memory” messages recently on a big project (the project file itself is around 140MB). They were annoying but not too much of a problem, it happened every 15 mins or so, the message came up, the canvas went red, but then it went away again.”
Good god, you had all that warning and you just kept working?
Your karma, baby, but you SHOULD have made a backup copy of your project file immediately and considered your worst case scenario and then made some intelligent plans to prevent it from happening.
There’s a long list of prophylactic measures including incrementing your project to a new version, Media Manager-ing a new copy containing only used media, and backing up everything perceived as critical to a cheap FW drive just because it would feel good to have a backup.While we wish the best of luck–no on wants to see anything bad happen to you or your media–but you’re on the edge, you got there yourself and next time we hope you’ll know better.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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This has happened to me once before. Try making a complete copy of your project. Copy everything in your browser and paste it into a new project.
Close both projects and reopen the new project. The sequences should open.
Phil
Dual 867, 2G RAM /
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Reverting to a previous saved version will cure this problem – then save a copy and use media manager to back up.
I don’t believe this problem has ANYTHING to do with a lack of physical ram on the computer. I have two systems with 6 gig of ram, and still get this occasionally. It has been extensively discussed before on this forum – a search under ‘out of memory’ will, no doubt, add numerous advise on this. I have been led to believe it can be caused by a computational ‘divide by zero’ or recurring number error.
If you didn’t have autosave on, and you have no other versions, you may have a big problem – although the previous post sounds interesting, so let us know. This is an ongoing problem in final cut.
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS and FCP specialists
Current Mac systems All Dual 2.7Ghz with Kona 2 and Digital Voodoo cards, 6Gb Ram, Sapphire, SCSI320 Medea and Huge Arrays.FCP projects include Sky TV coverage of the Ryder Cup and US Open Golf – Live OB specialists. Edit/slomo vehicle.
http://www.editec.co.uk
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