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DISK_TOO_MANY_OPEN error in record and source monitors
I keep on getting a black screen with the message DISK_TOO_MANY_OPEN in my record monitor when switching between EX footage sequences. There’s been similar posts on various forums about receiving the same error messgae but as a pop up window, not in the record monitor.
So far I have tried:
* changing the user settings
* starting new projects but importing the old bins and linking to the same media
* moving the sequences all into the same bin whereas they were in different ones originallyNothing seems to work!
The message only comes up when I switch between the 2 main, large sequences. I load one and it plays, I then switch to the other and get the message. After that I can’t play either unless I close the bin and open it again.
Can anybody please help?
Mac Pro – Avid Media Composer V4 – Sony EX3
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3 Replies
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I’m having this EXACT same problem, along with a plethora of other errors and crashes. This all began after I upgraded to version 4.x, and the updates haven’t fixed anything. Very frustrating.
I saw an older post from Grinner mentioning either moving your media files to a different drive or renaming the AvidMediaFiles folder and letting Avid rebuild that from scratch, then move the media to the new folder, which I’m going to try next.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/45/866705
By the way, what kind of system and drives are you running?
Craig
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MacPro 2 x 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
OS X 10.5.8
4 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT; 512 VRAM; Slot-1; x16
Quicktime Pro 7.6.4
Avid Media Composer 4.0.3 w/Adrenaline attached via Firewire 400, Rear Port
Caldigit HD Element (Caldigit RAID Controller, Slot-3)
Caldigit VR (Caldigit eSATA Extender) -
I’ve only seen this message in the record monitor when I tried to use many different P2 or XDCam card folders via AMA without transcoding. That was on MC 3.5.1 on an Adrenaline without HD, so it was all software only.
Is all your media Avid-native, or do you have tapeless camera media linked into your project through AMA?
My only solution was to transcode or consolidate media to Avid DNx.
brian
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Just confirmed that this is a solution for me, in Avid 5.0.3.9. Was trying to transcode several days of P2 media via AMA, but couldn’t get past this error. That was, until I took half of the files, moved them to a new bin, and hit transcode. Now it’s cooking. I’ll have to go back and the other half later, but it’s a fairly simple workaround. It wouldn’t let me transcode more than 1000 media files (not clips, but actual P2 MXF media files) but it certainly would work if it was less than that.
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