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Error: Out of Memory…. HELP!
I am now a danger to myself and others. I am unshaven, dirty and sleep deprived thanks to sleeping on the edit room love seat last night. I am two days behind on delivery. I am currently hating Final Cut passionately.
The show was FINE in DV. But rendering as 10-bit it is nothing but hell. The show probably has two hundred photos in it, and tons of them, randomly it seems, cause rendering to fail with “Error: Out of Memory”. I’m trying to render in pieces, but the error is everywhere like termites. I’ve got a 14 hour render; about two percent of the show actually rendered. I don’t know what I’m going to do with all those photos that 10-bit rendering doesn’t like. I don’t have time to actually re-edit this show. I. Am. Stuck.
Yes, I’ve trashed preferences, and I’ve even loaded the project on a fresh OS X boot with a NEW installation of FCP 6 (I am currently working in 5.1.2) AND still I cannot render numerous portions of my timeline, and thus my whole timeline remains largely unrendered — 14 hours of unrendered.
This is a duel 2.5 Mac (not Intel) with 6 GB of ram, and I’m got tons of work drive space.
HELP make this stop! Help, somebody! Help!
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Not to be simplistic, but why do you have to render in 10-bit? What are you trying to gain?
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10-bit is noticeably better, especially with a lot of graphics and text overlays. You don’t get quantization on grandients and blurs, and alphas from graphics are sharper, especially when color is involved. This show will go to digibeta and needs to play out natively, which then will be uprezed to 1080p HD and then filmed out.
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as it seems you are stuck then you might want to modify your immediate target to something more immediately acheivable. Did you test yet to see if things work any better with an uncompressed 8-bit or maybe ProRes timeline?
i’m guessing I lost something in the translation but the overall workflow does seem a little convoluted given your target. You’re working in a standard definition uncompressed 10-bit timeline, in order to then play out to an 8 bit SD recording medium, so that you can then up-res to an HD format for eventual film out …. ouch.
out of memory errors can be caused by a bunch of stuff, you probably already did your homework on this, but check yu have no CMYK images in there, and make sure the stills are not of a resolution that exceeds your targeted SD resolution needs
you might want to check this list of potential “Out of Memory” causes, hosted over at the LAFCPUG fora
https://www.lafcpug.org/phorum/read.php?11,153270,166563#msg-166563 -
Hi there, thanks for your thoughts!
One correction — digibeta SDI is 10-bit, not 8-bit as you say 🙂
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Are you rendering in the Timeline or exporting the sequence, if exporting how are you doing it.
When I want to change formats I export to Compressor from the FCP timeline. Make sure everything is unrendered before you send it.
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Interesting, thank you. Interesting to see if Compressor will “bypass” the out of memory error…
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you’re absolutely right of course, i’ll wear the dunces cap for day or too 🙂
digibeta is indeed a 10bit format, it’s basic HDCAM thats 8bit, i got myself confused there!
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Hey there,
I am exactly where you were when you mad e this post. Its almost 4 AM, again and Im still getting this stupid out of disc space error as well as multiple crash on FCP 5.1.4 I just spent 4500 bucks on a new Quad core xeon MAC Pro and j=have had nothing but head aches since! Did you ever figure out what was causing those issues with you? Please share the info, because I am about to tie the MAC to my feet and jump of of a goddamn bridge!
Thanks
Thomas
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