FCP 5.1.4 freezing during render

[Paul Escandon]

What are the settings of the sequence you are working in? What is the format of the original source footage you are trying to render? Does this happen no matter what files you are trying to render? Where are the source files located (internal, external, usb, firewire, etc?)? How much space is left on that hard drive? Where is your render folder? What version of Quicktime are you running? How much space is left on that drive? Do you have read/write permission on your render folder? Have you tried resetting your render folder to a different drive or directory?

These are just the initial questions I think we’d need answers to to start trying to troubleshoot. Obviously that’s a lot I’m asking but if you answer and try different things whatever is causing the problem might present itself.

Hope we can help.

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Paul Escandon
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Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
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[Will Fleisher]

The freezing happens no matter what type of footage/sequence settings we’re using (DV, 8-Bit, DVCPRO, et al.) As of this writing, I’m trying to render out DVCPRO 50 footage.

Render is set to 10 TB XSAN with about 2 TB of available space. Freezing occurs when trying to render to an external FW drive as well. Also when rendering to the desktop, which was more of a last ditch test than anything. We have read/write permission. Quicktime is 7.2, which I think is the latest version.

For what it’s worth, we’ve also had this happen when rendering in After Effects, though with less frequency than FCP. So it’s probably hardware related.

Hope this helps.

[Paul Escandon]

While this definitely may be a hardware issue, I couldn’t count out the possibility of it being an overall Quicktime problem – such as a corruption of something Quicktime related.

I just heard from Shane Ross that Quicktime 7.3 has been released. If possible, maybe upgrading to that will solve some of the problems… worth a shot at this point I think.

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Paul Escandon
Producer | Director | Editor
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Mark Maness]

Before going that far…

Trash your preferences, first.

If that still doesn’t work, I would say that you have a corrupted clip file. If this is the case, I’d select small chunks and render those. When it comes to the one that locks up your computer, one of those clips is the corrupted one. At this point, you’ll have to delete the media and recapture it. That will solve your problem of the crashing.

I have seen this a time or two and it has always been linked to a corrupted clip file.

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