Error: Operation Not Allowed Out of Memory. What to do?!

[David Fortin]

This happened to me just yesterday. Out to Motion, then when I got back into FCP got the same error message. Project wouldn’t save. FCP then crashed.
Once I trashed preferences and restarted FCP I was able to open the project again.

Did you trash preferences? When I run into problems I don’t understand I… 1.) reboot 2.) trash preferences 3.) repair permissions.

9 times out of 10 that usually works for me.

Good luck.

[Alec Gitelman]

did that, restarted, opened another project, copied assets. got the same error when trying to do some things. screwed around, until miraculously problem went away. opened old project, copied sequence without problems.

weird. but done and over with.

[Andrew Hamilton]

Yep…We’re running FCP 6.0.2 and have had a recent ‘rash’ of these error messages. We’ve discovered that a photoshop file with alpha was the culprit. The first few times we added this flattened psd file to the timeline it was fine, after a certain number, the scary red screen popped up saying “Operation Not Allowed” and then the less scary but nevertheless intrusive “Error: Out Of Memory” started taking over our system. We were able to isolate a bad PSD (CS3) file from using the same file in two projects on 3 different machines with the exact same result.
We resolved this by quitting out of our FCP project (click do not save), we went to our attic and pulled up an earlier auto save, deleted the psd file from the project entirely, converted that PSD file to a pict file retaining alpha in a separate channel and then imported the pict with alpha into our project and it seems to be working so far. If I have any further issues/solutions in this area I’ll be sure to post those as well.

Las Vegas Video Production
Hamilton International Productions
https://www.hiproductions.com

[Elijah Lynn]

I just got this message and the red screen after I dropped an exported Png back into the timeline. I have 6.5+ GB of free memory left too. Maybe this will help someone and maybe I will help myself. Can someone tell me though what “repairing permissions” is. I know what trashing preferences is and am going to do that.

[Tom Wolsky]

Please give full details of the PNG file, frame resolution, file size, how many images in your sequence, same size, how much RAM on the computer, what other applications are running, have you adjusted the still memory size?

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Elijah Lynn]

Gosh, it’s happening with BMP and TFF too. Still memory size is maxed allowable. 10 GB ram. 1440×1080 PNG – 560KB, BMP – deleted, TFF – 2.7 MB. FCP is only thing running.

Restarted FCP and it’s doing the same thing. Haven’t trashed prefs yet.

[Elijah Lynn]

After I restarted and closed over 20 extra sequences, I try to pop the png back in and it lets me but anytime I try to do anything to the timeline (other clips too), like scale, in and out points, it says “not found”. Then when I go to another sequence that has the problem sequence nested in it. Colored wheel and Crash.

[Tom Wolsky]

Trash the prefs and up the still memory cache a lot. You have room to spare.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Elijah Lynn]

You da man! I had set in the beginning to max allowable for still image cache but it somehow got knocked down.

Closing down the 24 sequences and upping the still image cache gave me a brand new 8 core mac!! Nice!

Thanks bud!

[Bob Sadler]

Came here looking for an answer with FCE getting the same message. Don’t know about FCP, but had the same problem with FCE, so finally I tried putting an “Out” marker at the end of each of my sequences, rendered, unrendered, etc, and never a problem again. FCE was rendering and exporting the whole time line, not just the media in the sequence…. Just a thought