Error 50

[Ed Dooley]

I don’t know if this helps at all, but Error 50 is a common error when using OSX
in a shared network with Windows machines. It’s also common for hard drive I/O
problems when using drives formatted for PC/Mac. Are you on such a network? Or are
you using an external drive that may be formatted as Fat32? Is anything else different
from the last exports of other sequences?
Ed

[Jimmy Stewart]

im using a mac g4 that was just upgraded to tiger. im not on a network…just editing out of my home. fcp is 4.5. the first sequence compressed no problem; the second is the same media just one minute longer. im also getting “general error” messages sometimes when i render the audio…but it will eventually let me render after a few trys. then compressor is giving me QuickTime error50. all other tests work..just for some reason this sequence has problems.

i tried erasing all renders and rerendering, but it still is givng me problems.

i also have my media on a lacie 250 drive formatted for mac.

any thoughts?

thanks, ed

[Ed Dooley]

I’ve also read of corrupt files or sequences causing this. Two possible things to try:
-First create another sequence and copy the timeline to that
-If that doesn’t work, duplicate the sequence, and using the duplicate, remove
one clip at a time of the clips that are different from the timelines that work (you
said they’re the same except the one with errors is a minute longer, right?). After
eliminating each clip, try compressing again to isolate the potential corrupt file.
A long process perhaps, but it’s all I can suggest (oh, trash your prefs too).
Ed

[Jimmy Stewart]

i will try that. and how do i trash prefs? thanks

[Ed Dooley]

Users/UserName/Library/Preferences/

You should read these (easily found on a search):
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_troubleshooting_fcp_jordan.html
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302337
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93385

Ed

[Jimmy Stewart]

i will check out all of those links. thanks

btw, i singled out each section of the sequence and pasted into a new sequence and they all worked individually. but as soon as i put them together, or split it in half, the error came up. not sure why..it didnt single out one file as corrupted. it just cant handle the larger volume. its only a 19min sequence.

i compressed the audio in sections and ill try to lay them side-by-side in dvd studio pro. hopefully they will line up properly.

thanks for the help.

jimmy