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  • Desperate! Cannot Render or Export Suddenly–On Deadline!

    Posted by Dave George on February 19, 2012 at 2:18 pm

    Having a bit of a FCP disaster. Doing a side job for a major client and suddenly my project won’t render or export. It says I don’t have the CODEC, when I’ve never seen this error before. I’ve attached my Sequence Settings and the error message. Can anyone think what I might be doing wrong here? Need to get this to the client today. Panic rising!

    Thanks!

    Dave

    Dave George
    Marketing Director

    Dave George replied 14 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Dave George

    February 19, 2012 at 2:33 pm

    OK, I think I fixed it. Shame on me for not Googling it first. If you care, I’ll tell you what I did to fix it. If not, you know…I won’t. Thanks for reading anyway!

    Dave George
    Marketing Director

  • Rafael Amador

    February 19, 2012 at 3:26 pm

    [Dave George] ” If you care, I’ll tell you what I did to fix it. If not, you know…I won’t.”
    Sure we care.
    What you did?
    rafael

    http://www.nagavideo.com

  • Tina Hedegaard

    February 20, 2012 at 8:33 am

    I think I’ve seen that error message sometimes, when I forgot to turn on my monitors before turning on the computer. Then there’s something with the video card, I think that the computer doesn’t regonize the video card.

    Yours Sincerely

    Tina Hedegaard
    Editor | Final Cut Pro 7 | Media Composer 5.0 -5.5
    Mac OS 10.6.7

  • Dave George

    February 21, 2012 at 6:20 pm

    Well, I’ll tell ya, I knew it had nothing to do with the monitor, since I was on my Macbook Pro. And other videos rendered fine. I found the answer via Google search, which, not surprisingly, pointed me right back here, to a post from a while ago. (I can’t find the post now, otherwise I’d link to it.)

    Basically, the problem was the frame size/aspect ration/compressor combination which made FCP think there was no preset for it. Or something. The suggestion which I tried (and which worked) was just to open a new sequence, using the same frame size, time base, aspect ration, etc… BUT to change the compressor settings to DV/DVCPRO-NTSC.

    One thing I learned, though, is to not do that until you’re done editing, otherwise you’ll be rendering ever five seconds.

    Dave George
    Marketing Director

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