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Final Cut Pro Rendering
There are 2 things I have a question about:
1. I am trying to render a 5 minute project and I keep getting “General Error” in the middle of the render. What should I do to keep this from happening.
2. Also I have noticed that when I render, almost none of my CPU is being used. It is taking it around 12 minutes to render 1 minute of footage when it usually takes only about 4 minutes. I think that it is because it is not using all of my processor speed. Is there a way I can change how much processor it uses?
I am working in an HDV 1080-60 timeline. I am using FCP 6.0.5 running on a Mac Pro with 2 x 2.66 GHz Dual Core Intel Xeon and 6 GB of RAM.
Thanks!
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3 Replies
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Sounds to me like something is corrupt in the sequence you are trying to render.
The way I deal with that here is to start rendering sections of your sequence at a time until you find the area that is causing the problem. Then narrow down which element in that section that causes the error by deleting a layer, render, if it works put that layer back, delete another layer, render, etc…
If it is a still element, try opening it in Photoshop and re-saving. If it is a QuickTime movie, you could try exporting it out of QuickTime Pro (or Final Cut), then re-importing it.
As for processor usage, I don’t believe there is any way to tweak that. You can set memory usage in “System Settings” but I believe that defaults to 100% anyways.
-Todd Beabout
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Thank you so much!
I already tried to render it section by section and I found the area that happens it seems that FCP didn’t like one of my “Editor’s Toolkit” clips.
Before I read the reply I brought everything into Motion and exported everything out as an MOV file. Now I have all of my elements in one clip in FCP. Hopefully that will help when I add more layers to my project from now on. If I come to that problem again I will definitely try to find the corrupt clip like you said. That should save me the 55 minutes of export time from MOTION.
As for the CPU usage, as you said, I didn’t find anything about tweaking it.
Thanks so much for your help!
Jose
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I am having the same problem!!!! Can anyone offer any advice??
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