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FCP X – Can’t export my edit – Quicktime error -50
This is another first for me.
I’ve edited a 1 minute commercial, which is a mixture of unconverted Canon 5D and Sony F3 footage but I am unable to export my completed edit.
If I go to export media or export using one of my custom settings it brings up the export bar and when it’s about 90% done it brings up the error message, ‘Quicktime error -50’.
I don’t have any problems exporting any other of my projects on the same drive so I suspect it’s a corrupt media issue or perhaps an F3 issue but it plays perfectly in FCP X.
I tried trashing prefs.
Many thanks,
Boris J.
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7 Replies
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Check for corrupted media around 90% of the way through your cut. Generally this error relates to media QT is not dealing with correctly.
I find FCPX to be strange with media playback, it may deal with the footage fine inside the program, but outputting it runs into an error.
Try exporting the last half in 10 second segments, this should at least narrow down wherein the problem lies.
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I would delete the render files using the File menu.
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Hi all,
For what it’s worth I thought I’d share.. I was getting the same error with a simple 1 video + 1 audio track render and followed these steps:
1. Checked media (I’d rendered using the same source files for a different version of the output but did this anyway) – all OK
2. Removed audio track – render successful
3. replaced audio track with new file – render failed
4. Re-aligned end of audio track with end of video track – Success!I’d made the mistake of running an audio fade past the end of the video track – thinking it’d just run on and render black – I’ll remember not to do that in future.
I hope this helps others.
Cheers!
John
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I had the same error and I spent a few hours trying to share portions of my project. I narrowed it down to one segment that was causing the error. It was a short clip that I had sped up. I deleted it, dragged it back into the timeline, changed the speed once again, rendered, and sharing worked fine.
Hope this helps.
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Same thing here, only I slowed a clip down. Redid that clip and it worked as before.
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Thanks so much for posting this reply. Seems FCPX (or Quicktime) has issues rendering audio where there is no video. I was trying to export a project where I had created a compound clip consisting only of audio tracks so that I could loop a soundtrack. Some of the audio tracks were over a gap in the compound clip. It would not export, I kept getting the Quicktime Error -50 immediately after trying to export.
After reading your reply, I tried disabling the compound clip containing the soundtrack, and it worked, so I eventually had to delete the compound clip and re-build my soundtrack edits in the main timeline, which will be a pain if I want to move any of the clips around in the future. Oh well, at least I got it to export.
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Nice that seems to work!!
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