• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  “The effect XXX cannot be rendered in a sequence of this size with the current graphics card”

  Posted by Andrew Huebscher on March 4, 2008 at 5:28 am

  I am getting this error message where XXX = “Color Solid” “Light Rays” “Bloom” “Overdrive” etc. The length of the sequence doesn’t seem to matter, as I get this message even if the sequence is only 10 seconds long.

  I have seen this error message in other posts, but there appears to be no working solution as of yet (or at least, my google skills maxed out). I’m wondering if I need a graphics card with 512MB of RAM. Is the nVidia 8800GT even available yet?

  My specs:

  Brand new Mac Pro Octo-Core 2.8 GHz
  8GB RAM
  Stock ATI HD 2600 XT (as far as I can tell, this is the most recommended card for this sys)
  System drive = 320GB Sata
  Media drive = internal 3 x SATA RAID (RAID 0) – suitable for ProRes certainly
  Aja LHe
  Sony PVM-14L5/1 and Eizo/HDlink monitoring
  Mac OS 10.5.2
  FCP 6.0.2
  Color 1.0.2
  QT 7.4.1

  Thanks in advance.

  Andrew Huebscher
  Los Angeles, CA

  Scott Compton replied 17 years, 7 months ago 5 Members · 6 Replies
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  Mark Rodway

  March 4, 2008 at 12:29 pm

  I had the same issue…………

  I purchased an ATI 1900XT card (512mb) – problem solved.

  Unsure if this is compatible with your brand new MAC….???????

  Regards,

  Mark
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  Tom Wolsky

  March 4, 2008 at 12:36 pm

  Seems strange if this is happening in FCP when I can do it on a lowly laptop. Have you tried pressing the escape key when you get this message?

  All the best,

  Tom

  Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
  Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”
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  Mark Rodway

  March 4, 2008 at 2:15 pm

  I had the issue when working at 1080 and in 10 bit colour sspace – it cleared when I was working in 8 bit.
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  Andrew Huebscher

  March 4, 2008 at 6:41 pm

  Just got off the phone with Apple tech support. It appears the issue had to do with the fact that my project was upgraded from a 5.0 project file. We created a new sequence with the same footage and applied those same effects on them and had no issues. He told me they generally don’t recommend upgrading project files, which was news to me. I’m going to check to see if this is what is causing my sync issues as well, but that will be a time consuming test that will have to wait for now.

  Thanks for sharing your experiences,

  Andrew
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  Scott Robert

  September 11, 2008 at 10:19 pm

  I’m having the same issue here. My sequence is not an upgrade from earlier version. If I change sequence to 8-bit processing, it works. I need it to be 10-bit for the output.

  After Effect seems to not have a problem applying FXs on it. So this makes me believe that it can’t be my NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 256mb card. Could it be a problem in FCP?

  I’m working with RAW RED footage in a 1080 timline.

  SYSTEM: MacPro 3.0 5 gig RAM.
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  Scott Compton

  October 11, 2008 at 6:53 pm

  Same problem here. We’re completing a feature and have several color correction filters. While coloring in standard 8 bit mode – all effects worked. When shifting to High Precision YUV (Still in 8bit) now getting a similar error. “Gamma-2” is a color correction effect that is causing our issue.

  We’ve separated out the sequence into 4 22 min sections and still running into the same issues.

  Mac: Intel 2×2.8 Quad-Core Intel Xeon
  RAM: 6GB
  MacOS: 10.5.5
  FCP 6.0.4
  Graphic Card: ATI Radeon HD2600
  VRAM 256MB

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