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FCP weirdness
I completed an edit yesterday and left the MAC I was using on with FCP still running. When I came back the next day FCP was trying to re-render the edit and had ran out of disk space and an error was thrown up asking if I wanted to clear some space using the disk manager app, it had also somehow un-rendered a section of the Broadcast Safe filter that I’d placed on it.
My question is I knew the MAC had nearly run out of hard drive space but why had it even attempted to re-render an edit/program that I had already completed and sent to archive? It made me so paranoid I had to recheck the program to make sure it was good, which it was.
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Hi Chris,
FC have an Auto Render function (preferences). If you had open some sequences no yet rendered, FC will render all. You can un-check the option.Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
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[Chris Tsamados] “My question is I knew the MAC had nearly run out of hard drive space but why had it even attempted to re-render an edit/program that I had already completed and sent to archive?”
Chris,
This tells me that your timeline was not fully rendered. You need to click on Sequence — Render All and check all of the various render options you see there, most important of all being “Full.” Then re-render. Full is not checked by default, and so any user initiated render of the timeline with only be at the preview level, and then the auto-render feature then comes along does a “full” render when you’re not watching. Make sense?
I hope this helps…
David
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Chris,
Make sure your scratch disk is set to something other than your system drive. Also make sure that your scratch disk has at least 10% capacity available.
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[Steve Eisen] “make sure that your scratch disk has at least 10% capacity available.”
In most cases, I’d say 20-25% available. If you’re working from FW drives, or single internal SATA drives, maybe 40-50% available for the best performance.
Arnie
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Well I hope it was that the scratch disks were nearly full because the edits have been TX’d in most case. I think more than likely it was because at the time the MAC hard drive was almost full.
BTW David I checked the Render options and the ‘full’ has been selected. Another theory that the editor has told me is because I am exporting the finished dub as a Quicktime movie it is rendering it for that but not rendering the timeline.
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