• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  General Error

  Posted by Richard Rodriguez on August 7, 2009 at 5:15 pm

  Hello all,

  I keep getting a General Error during a Quicktime export. I have tried the export self-contained and not self-contained. The sequence setting are XDCAM 1080I60, Square, Upper.

  I need to get it out of FCP to convert to Flash and DVD.

  Any possible help would be great appreciated.

  Thank you in advance,

  Richard Rodriguez
  Digital Edge

  John Fishback replied 17 years ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  John Fishback

  August 7, 2009 at 6:13 pm

  It could be a bad render. You can try deleting the renders with Render Manager and re-render. Then see if you can export. If that doesn’t work, it’s possible you’ve got corrupt media. To narrow down where in the sequence the problem may be, try exporting smaller segments. If one doesn’t work, then look to that segment as having bad media.

  John

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  Jesse Watson

  August 17, 2009 at 4:09 pm

  Just ran into this myself. For me, the problem ended up being the external hard drive I was using (both the source files and destination directory were on it). Moving both the source and destination to my local HD fixed it for me. Not to say that there might not be many other causes of “General Error” (nice error message).
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  Richard Rodriguez

  August 17, 2009 at 4:22 pm

  Thank you.

  I will make sure to separate in the future.

  Richard Rodriguez
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  John Fishback

  August 17, 2009 at 5:43 pm

  Make sure you never use your system drive as your scratch drive. Another possible reason for the error might be corrupt drive directories. Run Disk Warrior on your system and external disks. IMHO, Disk Warrior is the most important utility to have if you use a Mac.

  John

  MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
  FCS 2 (FCP 6.0.5, Comp 3.0.5, DVDSP 4.2.1, Color 1.0.3)

  Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN

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