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Exporting a quicktime movie that is not self-contained
I’m exporting an unself-contained quicktime movie in FCP 5.1.4 from a G5 to a one terabyte hard drive. There are 500 gigs of free space on the HD. Everytime I export a movie, it stops halfway through and says “Error, out of disk space.” These segments are getting smaller and smaller; I started with an hour segment and now am at a 20 min segment, and it’s still saying “Error, out of disk space,” no matter what the size. Why is this happening? Please help. Thanks!
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Just a wild guess from here…
Repair Disk Permissions on that TB-Drive.
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The first thing to always try is to Quit FCP, Restart the Mac, Open your FCP project and try again.
Next:
THE FOLLOWING COMES FROM THE KEN STONE WEBSITE:
“Over 5,000 years ago Confucius wrote: ‘If you are toiling away, you have changed nothing and FCP heads South on you, [starts behaving in strange ways] then it is time to trash your FCP Preferences.’ ”Click the following link for instructions.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
A great way to do this is to use “FCP Rescue” a free Apple Script that will Trash the Preferences for you (and restore nearly all of your user settings afterward).
There are versions for FCP (Pro) & FCE (Express) and a new one for FCP 5.Download these free Apple Scripts at
https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/
or
https://pistolerapost2.com/fcprescue/This is one FCP tip that has helped in solving hundreds of “odd” problems.
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Also, if there’s room on your System Drive, try saving the Non-Self-contained QT to that disk.
Then, if it works, you could simply drag and copy that file over to another drive.
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Thanks. How do I repair the disk permissions? Also, why is this not working when there’s so much space on a brand new hard drive?
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[Atari Norris] ” Also, why is this not working when there’s so much space on a brand new hard drive?”
Did you by any chance use Apple Disk Utility to reformat the brand new drive? If not, thats your problem.
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How are you going to use a reference movie that is on an external drive? Once the drive is disconnected form your system, it will no longer be able to see the referenced media.
Does the “atari” refer to go?
bogiesan
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