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Corrupt Sequence or Renders
Background.
One hour film broken into 4- 15 minute sequences. The first three sequences exported to QT movie (for going into Compressor for the DVD) fine. (Latest version of FCP on a new Mac Pro)The 4th sequence would not export. I get a File Error: Unknown File Message. Someone thought it appeared to be bad render files. I tried to find all of the renders in the sequence but only found about 90%. There are lingering renders that take forever to render and appear corrupt but I cant find them. I hate doing this re-rendering because this thing is huge with lots of greenscreen. Rendering the 15 minute sequence takes about 5 hours.
I tried copying the sequence into a new project but still the same problem. When I pasted it into the new project sequence it brought along the old renders and, apparently, the lingering defective ones.
Am I going to have to dump all of the renders for this project and then try to copy it into a new project with new system files/scratch disk? Or Worst Case, Rebuild the whole dang sequence in a new project.
Help? Really need to get this project out of here.
Thanks
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3 Replies
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I would dump all of the renders. Highlight all of your footage, then pres CONTROL-B to deactivate the clips, the Control-B to reactivate them. This will dump all the renders.
re-render.
Shane
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Thanks Shane…I’ll give it a shot. This has been a six month ordeal for shooting and post so I need a day or so break from the project before I deal with this aggravating little caper…I’ll post the outcome.
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Aaargh! Oh how I wish I had read this post.
After being on the phone to Apple 3 times in the last 2 days – trying everything – wiping my sytem / reinstalling – & finally establishing that i’ve got a corrupt project, I type in “corrupt project” on here and Shane’s method solves it in 2 seconds!
Shane be glad you’re far away because right now I could kiss you!
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