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FCP crash on render, export, and Media Manager
Hi, All,
I’m having a consistent problem with rendering, exporting a movie, and recompressing through MM (to consolidate and backup clips).
I have a 1 hour HDV timeline. If I try to do any of these things with the whole timeline, FCP will inevitably crash with no error message. Just disappear. It usually happens several hours into the procedure.
This has been going on for the entire time I have been working on this project (once it exceeded 30 minutes or so in length) which has been the entire time I have owned this system. (G5 quad, 4 gigs memory, Kona 3, firewire external drives)
I have tried:
Trashing prefs with FCP Rescue
Reinstalling FCP 5.04
Later, Installing 5.1 and updating to 5.1.1
Resetting the FCP system settings to increase memory allocations
Removing and reinstalling memory
Tidying up the timeline to reduce numbers of tracks and eliminate sloppy stuff.
Rendering and/or recompressing in smaller chunks to detect corrupt files. All worked fine.Additional comments:
My software update files are all current.
In several instances the actual amount of rendering to be done was relatively small (10 min of the film, for instance) but if I selected the whole 1 hr piece of timeline it still crashed.)
I have abundant disk space on firewire drives and on my boot drive (80gb on that one)As a workaround, I can put together the self-contained movie or recompressed project that I want by doing the thing in 10-minute chunks, but it’s very inconvenient because it means getting up through the night to start a new process every hour or so instead of just turning the computer loose and going to sleep. It also means that any DVD I make contains the show in pieces rather than in one chunk. This is OK for now, as we’re still doing rough cut work, but it has to be solved for later.
Any ideas?
Thank you,
Mike
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