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FCP 7 will not let me render/ NO ERROR message
I’m working on a a two and half hour looong play! 🙂 I am usually editing 30 minute wedding videos and over the past several days I’ve been having problems rendering audio files that I import.
Mp3 and caf files both indicate that I need to render them, however, when I do render nothing happens. I get no error message or any indications that something went wrong…it just simply doesn’t render it. I must be missing something silly and it’s probably staring me in the face, but I can’t quite figure it out.
I took a screen shot of the timeline including the caf file that won’t render.
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x360/StoriedProductions/Screenshot2010-12-11at22257PM.pngI know there are a million and a half of variables so I’ll do my best to completely inform you:
First my Computer Specs:
PROCESSOR: 2 x 2.26 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
MEMORY: 6 GB 1066 MHz DDR3OS: MAC OS X Version 10.6.4
FINAL CUT PRO 7 ACADEMIC Version [They swear there’s no difference in the academic version than the commercial retail version]My video files Compressor: Apple ProRes 422
Sequence Setting: Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) <– oops (you don’t suppose that would give me audio rendering problems do you??)My Hardrive only has about 25 GB left on it but that should be plenty to finish the last 60 seconds of this video! I’m so close!!
Anything else I left out that you need to know? I’ve been in FCP long enough to know that the sequence must be selected before rendering will take effect, so it’s not that. There must be some other something I’m missing. And without an ERROR message I’m having trouble looking up and answer. Any help out there??
God Bless,
Joshua MacFall
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8 Replies
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Have you tried converting those MP3 and CAF files to AIFs? I’ve never encountered this problem since I always convert audio to either AIF or WAV so I’m not sure that’ll solve the issue you’re having, but it’s definitely worth a shot since most pro video software doesn’t deal well with media that’s in delivery formats instead of editing formats.
Hope that helps.
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Hey David! Thanks for the reply. I actually have tried converting to AIFF and I still have the same problem. From my brief research, it seems that AIF and AIFF are the same right?
Thanks again.
God Bless,
Joshua MacFall
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[Joshua MacFall] “it seems that AIF and AIFF are the same right?”
Correct. Make sure also that your sequence and the aif files are 48khz sample rate. Your sequence will say 32 bit which is normal but the clips must be either 16 or 24 bit.
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If you converted to AIF at 32-bit float, they will still need to be rendered. Like Michael said, make sure they are 16 bit or 24 bit. Also, under your render selection settings, is the audio “needs render” checked before you hit cmd-R? Those settings seem to confuse people a bit, you check on the color of clip you’d like rendered. When you do, it will have a check mark on it. Then when you hit cmd-r, it will render any type of render color that is checked.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Don’t use MP3. Convert.
Remove mp3 from timeline.
Add aiff.
Copy timeline into a new timeline to get rid of corrupted render stuff. -
I’m WAY late on the reply, but this worked & you’re rock awesome for taking the time to give advice. Thanks!
God Bless,
Joshua MacFall
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I dunno if you can help or if this is the right place, but with my fc pro7, when i try to render i get a ‘file error: access denied’ message. driving me crazy. tried apple, tried everywhere. desperation…
allan w
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Allan,
What codec are you using to edit with? If you’re using a non-editing codec like .H264 then you’ll get that message a lot. As well as frequent crashing.
God Bless,
Joshua MacFall
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