FCP evil General Error during rendering

[Peter Adler]

Ive been working on a sequence thats primarily all slides. Every slide has its own unique move and theres close to a hundred slides. I started adding text to the sequence and thats when the error started. I removed all of the text restarted that and it came back. Now anytime i try to render that sequence I get the general error (34). I found a horrible workaround where I removed all of the titles and audio and edited that seq into a new seq. Seems to be working but I cant tweak the images at this point.

– I trashed the settings
– Changed the rendering to another drive in case it was a drive failure.
– coppied the seq and renamed it.
– Ran Disc first aid (and said the drives were ok)

At this point Im thinking its either a corruption in the sequence somewhere or one of my Ram chips is starting to fry out? If it was the Ram I would think this error would be happening on all of my sequences.

[Jeremy Garchow]

What is the source of slides and how big are they?

If the are still images, they need to be under 4000×4000 (2500×2500 should do, they don’t have to be a perfect square, I’m just giving the maximum raster) and they also need to be in RGB vs CMYK.

Jeremy

[Angelique Van grootel]

Try this:

Delete all your render files and rerender..

it took me a lot of time and frustration, before I found this solution on a forum, but this does the trick every time

Hope it works for you too!