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FCP not keeping rendered files
Hello to all,
I am editing at a companies studio, which I have worked at off and on for the last couple of years. There is a main project that we have been working on that is about 8mins long. I’m the only editor that they use, but I’m only here once every couple of months. This is a new issue.
For the last few times I have gotten here, I open up the project for the 8min spot, and all of the renders that we’ve done a long time ago are all gone. I render, everything is fine, then when I come back in, the renders are gone again.
Any thoughts?? Thanks in advance! 🙂
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8 Replies
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What version of FCP? This sounds like a bug in the early versions of FCP6.
If it is 6 or 6.0.1 then try updating to 6.0.6 which was the final version of FCP6 and didn’t have that and many other bugs.
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I have been having a similar problem. I posted a “what is going on with my computer” question and it was met with stunning silence. I have been able to return the rendered files by restoring to an earlier save (I save frequently) but I question why I should have to do so.
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Frank, have you upgraded to 7.0.1? Have you tried the usual maintenance jobs (trash preferences, repair permissions?).
When posting about problems it helps to say which version you are running and what you have tried to remedy the problem if anything. It saves us asking endlessly the same questions. “Stunning silence” is often the result of regulars here just not wanting to have to ask the basic questions over and over.
Help us help you. It’s just a basic courtesy.
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Well, I am running FCP 7.0.1 with Snow Leopard on a 8 core MP. I thought I gave plenty of information about my system in my post but if you don’t know what is wrong you don’t know what information is important.
Anyhow, I am “glad” to see I am not alone with this problem. Maybe now we can figure out what is wrong. I will try to trash the permissions and repair preferences (which I had not done) to see if it makes a difference.
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So, here is what I did. I discarded the preferences file and restarted FCP. I opened a 13minute clip that was completely rendered. I added some text for a short 15 second clip or so that required rendering of that clip. I rendered that sequence. After it rendered, that clip changed to “blue” above indicating it was rendered but the entirety of the sequence, that had been rendered before turned to red, indicating it needs to be rendered again.
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That behaviour is unusual. To manage your preferences and to readily trash and restore, download the free preferences manager from Digital Rebellion. https://www.digitalrebellion.com/resources.htm
Also repair disk permissions. Where are your render files going? How have you set up your scratch disks? What are your sequence settings and do they match the clip settings exactly?
Next how did you install FCS3 and the OS. Was it a clean install or overwrite of an older OS & FCS2? All these may be a factor in why your system is behaving abnormally. I have the same FCP7.0.1 and Snow Leopard and I can assure you I have nothing like this behaviour.
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Well, I don’t remember exactly how I installed all this stuff. Most of ithas been upgrades since FCP 1. However, I think I had to do a clean install when I changed to an intel machine. I got this machine when I started working with HD files as rendering and smoothcam was taking 24-36 hours on my old G5 on HD files. I think I will reinstall everything just in case to see if that fixes things.
One thing about the sequence. I have all these short snippets of people giving testimonials about my product. This sequence I am having trouble with is my trying to “upgrade” some of my older SD files with some of my newer HD files. It is a mix/match of SD, AVCHD 1080i, and Canon 7D 1080P trying to get a common HD out for youtube and my web site.
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Some follow-up on my situation. I reinstalled the OS, no change. I reinstalled FCS, no change. I reset PRAM, no change. I called apple support.
It is not clear what the problem was but it had to do with mixing codec’s. We started another sequence and put in some of the same clips, mixing SD with HD and the problem did not surface with this small trial. I have no idea exactly what the issue was but it looks like I can just drag and drop the stuff in the old sequence to this sequence and the issue won’t reappear. If it does then I will be back on the phone with apple and will get back to everyone and report again here.
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