• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Exports are incomplete

  Posted by Mccalley on October 23, 2007 at 4:21 am

  I have the weirdest problem here.
  I’m editing a project which contains HD footage and MiniDV footage. It’s been working fine until now. When I mark in and out points and export, instead of a fifteen-minute sequence, I get 11 minutes and 44 seconds of Quicktime. It just ends. When I try to mark that last four minutes for export, it gives me a file which contains four minutes of video from before then, up until that one frame at 11:44.

  It’s a little early to admit bafflement, because I haven’t tried duplicating the sequence and deleting everything up until the point where it stops. But I get no errors, no problems, it plays back fine in the timeline, and the cause eludes me.

  Any ideas? Suggestions?

  Mark Maness replied 18 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  Jeremy Garchow

  October 23, 2007 at 5:16 am

  Is everything rendered?

  Have you tried deleting all renders and trying again?

  How are you exporting? Self contained? Reference movie?

  What format and frame rate is your timeline?

  What version of FCP?

  Jeremy
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  Mccalley

  October 23, 2007 at 11:07 am

  Is everything rendered?
  Yes

  Have you tried deleting all renders and trying again?
  No, and I will.

  How are you exporting? Self contained? Reference movie?
  Self-contained.

  What format and frame rate is your timeline?
  HD and 29.97 (although maybe I should doublecheck..)

  What version of FCP?
  That I need to look up. (College computers.)

  Things to try. Will get back on it..
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  Mark Maness

  October 23, 2007 at 3:03 pm

  When you see weird stuff like this… ALWAYS delete your prefs and zap your PRAM.

  Generally, this will fix any of these abnormalities.

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  Wayne Carey
  Schazam Productions
  http://www.schazamproductions.com
  https://blogs.creativecow.net/waynecarey
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  Jeremy Garchow

  October 23, 2007 at 3:05 pm

  Cool, let me know hot it goes. That’s a weird problem that I have never heard of or seen before so you might have to bear with me as we try all kinds of stuff.

  Jeremy
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  Mccalley

  October 23, 2007 at 10:43 pm

  Oookay…
  So I’m not sure what’s going on.
  Duplicating the sequence and eliminating all but the problem segment got me most of that safely exported. Deleting the render files helped a bit, but not a lot.

  Now, you might hit me of the the head for this, but I thought that maybe some of my problem was due to funky rendering, since (as I’ve noticed today) that transitions weren’t rendering right and occasionally the video would skip. Now, if it’s corrupted, –which may be, but it plays back okay… So I prayed, and exported it again to test something, I forget what.
  Now, it’s not set to export full res. It’s set to export half-res. But it exported a beautiful, perfect-looking, non-error-filled, *complete* sequence. I.. I’m confused. I think half my problems were a result of me trying to export a low-resolution version of my sequence.
  Would that be my problem? And me an idiot, or something?
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  Mark Maness

  October 24, 2007 at 9:18 pm

  Hmmm…..

  Sounds like you need to try a few things here. First, I’d delete your prefs. Second, if you haven’t reformatted your media drive in a while, things like this can start happening because of drive corruption with some of the drive blocks or sectors. Third, try running something like TechTool on your media drive. Just don’t defrag your media drive if its a stripped partition.

  Personally, I’d start with deleting your prefs.

  _______________________________

  Wayne Carey
  Schazam Productions
  http://www.schazamproductions.com
  https://blogs.creativecow.net/waynecarey

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