FCP keeps shutting down during export

[David Roth weiss]

First export a self contained QT with Export Quicktime movie and then use that file in Compressor to create your other files.

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[Peter Brewer]

I was having a similar issue when sending to compressor. I used FCS Remover and reinstalled compressor and it’s been fine since. Have you tried to delete FCS and reinstall?

Peter Brewer
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[Andy Morin]

I haven’t tried to delete and uninstall yet. I just might b/c i’m having an issue with the DVD program as well. I’m trying David’s advice right now and seeing if i come across any problems. Thanks for the help.

[Andy Morin]

So, It was just interrupted by a notice saying “Error: out of disc space”.
I have 9gb of space left on the hard drive.

[Steve Eisen]

Make sure your timeline is completely rendered. Place a check on all your render options.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Andy Morin]

The timeline is completely rendered. The only thing is a light blue color that wont render. Anywho i’ve thought a lot about this and it’s so hard to go down a list troubleshooting b/c it will often take 30min to write and then shutdown. So here’s a few things ive thought of:

1. I had to clear room to bring in all the footage from XDCAM transfer. I may have tried to delete some rendered files to make room. EX. Sequence 1-FIN-000000033. So i may have rearranged some things. But it doesn’t make that much sense bc all the clips are still visible and functioning.

2. Potentially Not having the right sync between Sequence settings and export settings. Mine right now are
Compressor: H.264
Quality: High
1920×1080
Aspect Ratio:HDTV 1080i (16:9)

Export:
Setting:AppleProRes 422(HQ) 1920X1080 30p 48KHZ
Checked options:
Recompress all frames
Make self-contained movie

I did what Don advised with exporting the quicktime movie instead of conversion and it successfully finished, but for some reason there are maybe 1 or 2 skewed frames in the movie that resemble what too much snow on a satellite would look like to the picture. Just for one frame and then corrects itself. So I did that on a few different export settings and it for maybe one it gave me the Disc space error. Just now I hooked up my external and exported the video only, with the AppleProRes 422(HQ) 1920X1080 30p 48KHZ.
The picture is good, now I’m just trying to cut the audio out of the original sequence and laying it together with a finished video. Seems like a lot of trouble. I’ve done maybe minute long videos so far with the XDCAM footage and it was fine. Could it be my system can’t handle the file size.
Again, I now have 11gb of free space, 4gb ram and a 2.4ghz intel Core 2 duo

[Andy Morin]

I just got a message just a little more that 50%through saying Error:File is too big.
I’ve got the originally exported Quicktime movie over the original audio. The Original audio is 3 Mp4 tracks that I imported from the itunes. The video is without audio is about 2gb.

[Brad Kopp]

So, It was just interrupted by a notice saying “Error: out of disc space”.
I have 9gb of space left on the hard drive.

you need more like 20G empty space mac uses it temporarily !

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