Crash on render

[David Roth weiss]

Here’s my list if things to do in order of priority:

Trash Prefs

Fix permissions in Disk Utility

Run Disk Warrior on all drives especially your CalDigit HDOne (yes they recommend DW)

Use the Render Manager to delete all renders for the current project

If these don’t work, open a new project and move current timeline to the new project, try to render now.

If that doesn’t work, cut and paste everything from the present timeline into a new timeline in teh new project.

David Roth Weiss
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[Aaron Neitz]

Rendering the Motion Projects in FCP?

I had so many problems with that workflow, I would render out in Motion as a quicktime and bring it into FCP.

[Scott Davis]

David, thanks for the response.

I had already:
-trashed prefs
-repaired permissions
-dont have DW so haven’t done that
-haven’t tried this in a new project yet will try that though
-yes, tried the cut and paste

So, I will try point 4 and see if that work.

Scott Davis

[Scott Davis]

So far nothing has worked. I think it is all the Motion projects.

Scott Davis

[Alan Lacey]

Like Aaron, I’ve had endless problems leaving the motion projects on the timeline. I always render them separately now.

Alan

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[Jason Levy]

Sounds to me like you are running out of memory. Try bringing just the one sequence in to a new project and open it fresh with no other project running, then render and see what happens. I assume you have ample memory in your system… (more then 4 gigs does not help though.)

Good luck.

jason

[Scott Davis]

Hi Jason, I thought the same thing. I have 4G of RAM, and tried it with nothing running other than FCP. I can render hour long projects easily when there are no Motion projects in them. At this point I believe it is the Motion projects. In a 40 minute piece we have 100+ Motion projects. For the online I will render out and bring them in as QT. I don’t want to do that now as the editor might still be making changes as we wrap the rough.

Scott Davis

[Jaap Verdenius]

Have you tried decreasing RAM allocation for FCP ? I know it sounds counterintuitive but I have always been wondering if Motion may be running in the background in these situations, desperate for memory

[Jason Levy]

Actually since final cut and motion have to run at the same time maybe more than 4 gigs would be helpful.. If you run Activity Monitor when you are trying to do this render how much free memory does is say you have available?

jason