• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Sheer Panic Not Far Off: Final Cut Express HD_File not opening

  Posted by Thea Stallwood on September 18, 2014 at 11:24 am

  Hello,

  I’m a newbie to Creative Cow, so apologies if I’m breaking any Cow Etiquette here.

  My initial problem was this;

  I have been trying to export a 75 minute film from Final Cut Express HD without any success.
  I went to try some of the ideas I picked up from CreativeCow forums about bad render files, only to find I now have a much bigger problem on my hands.

  I last viewed the film file in Final Cut Express two days ago when I watched the entire film through. I saved it as normal and closed everything down.

  Today I have opened up Final Cut Express, tried to open the film file from the external hard drive and this message comes up;
  
  File I/O Error

  I went to copy all the working files over to another external hard drive, as back up, before I try changing anything. When I went to do that, this message came up;

  The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in [name of file] could not be read or written. Error code – 36

  In Final Cut I can still open up other working files and watch them through, so it appears to be a problem with this file rather than the software.

  Feeling extremely nervous right now. Any help would be hugely appreciated.
  Thank you
  Thea

  Specs;
  Macbook Pro
  Mac OSX
  Version 10.5.8
  Processor 2.4GHz
  Memory 2GB
  Main External hard Drive – 64GB available, firewire connection
  Secondary External Hard Drive – 1.4TB available, USB connection
  Footage imported from Canon EOS 550D
  Final Cut Express HD version 3.5.1

  Mark Suszko replied 11 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Mark Suszko

  September 18, 2014 at 4:55 pm

  Did you try disk Utility repair/verify?

  Try this

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqubUf28ZZY

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