Cant output to tape, cant export, cant forece quit,cant get project out without crashing

[Paul Harb]

Anybody pls help me here….Im going nuts…threw away prefrences…still no luck…it just locks up while playing….got through about 35 minutes of the show…then again locks up….again I cant force quit I cant even shut down the computer without rebooting by holding the button down….

Paul

[Bouncing Account needs new email address]

What Mac?

What OS?

What Hard Drives?

Did you capture to a drive(s) other than the one with your OS and FCP?

How full are the drives?

Did you perform an Audio “Mixdown for Playback”?

We can’t give you serious help without complete details.

(And its always good to soft-pedal the “bashing” of the software we make our livings with.)

[Paul Harb]

Im definatly not bashing FCP…it just drives me crazy sometimes…..thks for your response…

FCP 5.0.4
OSX 10.4.6
QT 7..0.4
Im using Huge Media Vault 2.5 TB SCSI dirve array
Atto UL4D SCSI controller
the drives are not even %50 full
I have all the latest drivers for the firmware on the Huge array as well as the newest driver for the Atto

I just tried using compressor to export and it crashed as well……

I did not mixdown the audio, i will try it but at this point all Im trying to do is export the movie and I cant even do that, mixing down the audio should have nothing to do with exporting…

any ideas?

[Bouncing Account needs new email address]

Mixdown can solve lolts olf p;roblems INCLUDI[paul] ” mixing down the audio should have nothing to do with exporting…”

That’s simply not true.

I’m not saying it WILL solve YOUR problem NOW… but Mixdown CAN help “fix” export problems.

Hope you get the project out.

[Peter Wiggins]

I had a corrupt clip in a hour long show that caused a crash similar to yours.

FWIW, how I fixed it was to make a duplicate of the timeline, then halve the show to isolate the first part.
This worked ok so the problem was in the second half.

Then I did the same but this time halved the ‘second half’ of the show -the first quarter of that would crash on playing.

By doing that over & over I narrowed it down to the corrupt clip quite quickly, made it offline then recaptured.

Hope that might help,

Peter

Free Motion Templates

https://www.peterwiggins.com

[Paul Harb]

Tried mixing down…didnt work……thks though…..

[Paul Harb]

I really hope this is not the issue….I will try this route as nothing else seem to be working…..unfortunetly I dont have the DVCPRO50 deck that I had to rent to digitize all of the material…..so if this is the issue, i will have to go back to the client and tell him I need the deck again…..in this case since it is MY system that is corrpting the media….I think I am liable to pay for it……what a bummer…

Paul

[Paul Harb]

hmmm…..so since I was using compressor this last time to try and export…..it actually tells me what frame it crashes on…..all off the media in a certain spot seems to crash it…about a 3 minute chunk of stuff….I set and in and out after that point to the end of the program and it is exporting it now…..IM crossing my fingers that it finishes…..if it does at least I have narrowed it down…still a bummer……I will have to spend more moeny renting the deck again…but at least I know thats the issue so thanks for your help…is there a reason why the media might have gotten corrupt? Anything I can do besides renting the deck again to recapture…..

Paul

[Francois Stark]

Last option: Export Quicktime reference movie. Go to Export Quicktime Movie – same as source and make sure “self contained” is off. This creates a reference movie, which refers to all your video render files and original files (where they were untreated), but it contains all audio, mixed down.

I have had a few cases where FCP freezes up after it finishes the export of such a long project, in which case a force quit should work.

Next thing to chack is to make sure that you can play this Ref movie in quicktime.

Then you open up FCP, close all projects, open a new project, drag only this ref movie in and edit to tape. Bulletproof.

Regards
Francois

[Mark Maness]

Well, Paul…. There again, it could be any number of things that can corrupt media. The next question that has to be asked is… when was the last time you formatted your RAID? You do know that you can’t defrag a RAID so the only solution to combat this is to copy your media to a temporary drive and reformat your RAID, when you copy the media back, it will be placed in correct order – not fragmented throughout the drive.

Over time, any drive, can be seriously fragmented on any operating system on any platform. Just that some are more prone to it than others. That’s why we have to reformat from time to time. About every six months is a good rule of thumb, in our production house.

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Schazam Productions
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