Codec not found. You may be using a compression type without the corresponding hardware card.

[Fredy Schwerdtner]

Looking for the same kind of problem when trying to render a prores sequence, I could solve the problem changing the compressor render settings for the sequence from “same as sequence codec” to “apple intermediate codec”. Doing that I could render and export it.

iMac 2.7 GHz Intel 4 Core i5
16 GB memory

MacBook Pro 17″
2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
6GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

OWC RAID 5 with 3TB
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OS X 10.6.5
Final Cut Studio “3”

[Alain Furcajg]

Fixed it! Changed render settings of the sequence to HDV as opposed to Prores 422. Other codecs probably work but not Prores 422 apparently.

Had this error message: “Codec not found. You may be using a compression type without the corresponding hardware card.” when was trying to export my sequence – or even just render. Been editing a project with multiple codecs and stills and thought it was because I was using jpegs – as opposed as png or tiff – in all different frame size. I isolated it and it was actually some vertically shot footage – on iPhone or Flip but converted to Prores 422 – that was creating the issue. SO i changed the settings of my sequence to render in HDV as opposed to Prores. Somehow the supposedly flawless Prores 422 codec is pretty fussy about vertically shot footage – and some jpegs in different frame sizes too I’ve read – and wouldn’t render. So rendered and exported to h264 just fine!

[João Toscano]

I re opened the FCP and it allowed me to render…

[Erg Into]

I had this problem, and I discovered that it was due to having CMYK graphics in my sequence. As soon as I converted them to RGB, everything worked perfectly.

Hope this helps!