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FCP (7.0.4) Message “Out of Memory”—Far From it & Project Takes 23 minutes to Open–CRAZY!
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As I understand it, although FCP 7 is allocated 4 GB, about 1.5 of that is reserved for FCP background setup and maintenance, so only about 2.5 GB is actually available for any particular project. What I do is keep the Activity Monitor open with the System Memory tab selected, and watch the FCP Real Mem numbers. As long as that’s under about 2.2 I don’t seem to have any problems (and I’m working with a LARGE project file size – about 240 MB). However, once it gets closer to 2.5 GB I start having problems. I regularly close any timelines I’m not actively working on, and sometimes restart the program to shed any possible memory holders. But even with a 240 MB program, it only takes a few minutes to load (HD ftg, tho a documentary with very few complicated effects).
If it is a real program memory problem, then it may be that you need to go over to a 64 bit program like Premiere or FCP X. But my guess is that it’s related to corrupt files or things like oversized stills, as has been mentioned.
Tom Valens
Tamalpais Productions -
hi Daniel,
your problem lies in either/both large stills with CMYK color space, or/and (this is my guess) H264 files. The P2 and the ProRes are no problem.
First: Bring all media to one format (ProRes) and speed fps, then start editing,cheers
rainer
factstory
Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
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The “red” needs rendering clips will not render though the “green” preview clips are able to be rendered. The project is now taking 38 minutes to open (23 minutes before) and I have not added more than a couple of project clips.
The photos I have added are Bmp format (which look like are RGB) and jpg format.
Rainier,
How do I “First: Bring all media to one format (ProRes) and speed fps”? All my timelines are set to the same Apple ProRez 422 HQ format in the project.Dan
Daniel Monskey
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The “red” needs rendering clips will not batch render though the “green” preview clips are able to be rendered in batches. I can select a single red status render clip and successfully render it though. The project is now taking 38 minutes to open (23 minutes before) and I have not added more than a couple of project clips.
The photos I have added are Bmp format (which look like are RGB) and jpg format.
Dan
Daniel Monskey
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Did you ever find a solution?
Interesting thread -
I don’t know how to tell the format of photos to tell RGB or CMYK.
Definitely not too big. ANd there are thousands of video files —way too many to test.
DanDaniel Monskey
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I don’t understand this memory issue. I have multi terabyte drives, worked on large projects before (except for the excessive GoPro and other alternate video clips from other formats that all need rendering). I do suspect that is the issue, but I do not understand running out of memory when I still have lots of space left on the drives. How can I clear the memory and continue working?
DanDaniel Monskey
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No—I had a deadlined project so I had to work through the issues. The time to open the project speed up to 23 minutes (from 23 initially up to 48 or so) and the rendering worked again. At first as things began to improve I could render one red-render clio at a time (not batching), which was tedious and then suddenly I could render the project in full. I did nothing to resolve this.
Therefore I don’t trust that it is resolved, but need to watch for reoccurance as I rework the project for final presentation. (BTW: I made the deadline. I do need to do a final output with a few modifications. I will monitor how things work during this process and get back to the forum to help with the knowledge of the group on issues.)I do like the one gents’ suggestion to open the monitor and keep an eye on memory status.
Thank you all for the dedicated interest in assistance to resolve this issue and Xavier for your interest in seeing if this was cleared up.
Great group of helpful and knowledgeable contributors—-understanding of technology way over my head!
Thank you again
DanDaniel Monskey
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This makes total sense. I’ve never had this problem and I’ve never had this much alternate format video in a project. WOW! THANK YOU BIGTIME!!!!!! I’ll get MPEG Streamclip and see what happens.
Thank you so much—-and MUCHAS GRACIAS everyone else for your analysis!!!!!
What a great resource community!!! Well doctors, I’m confident we may have found the cure for this patient!
DanDaniel Monskey
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I just got a message from the MPEG Streamclip program that says “FLIP4MAC WMV Demo Alert!
A water mark will be permanently placed over the video and audio. To avoid the watermark, purchase Player Pro now and restart your application.
Is this not a free program as mentioned?
DanDaniel Monskey
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