FCP6 suddenly crashing when adding/rendering effects

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Sarah Weinstein] “This project isn’t that big, and the footage is saved on a 1TB drive.”

How much space is left on it and what codec are you working in?

What effect caused this?

[Sarah Weinstein]

Hi Jeremy:
There’s 881 GBs left on the drive. Um…as far as codec is concerned, I have NTSC chosen as the format, with “All rates” selected.
It doesn’t crash on any particular effect. For example, when I select an effect (any), it takes forever to add it and then when I choose Render Selection, it crashes.

I was just working on the non-effects portion of the project thinking that it would be okay and it just crashed again. So maybe it’s more than just the effects. I don’t know.

Thanks for your help.
Sarah

[Jeremy Garchow]

dv50? 8 bit Uncompressed? 10Bit? Prores? DV?

If you start a new project, add a clip then add an effect, does it crash?

This is going to be hard to trouble shoot.

Jeremy

[Sarah Weinstein]

Hi Jeremy:
After working in this project a little more, I’ve determined that this probably isn’t an effects-specific problem. It’s crashing now when I’m not working with effects in the same project. It just crashed, for example, when I saved it. And the time before, it crashed right after I rendered an audio track.

I’m using video from a couple old projects saved on different hard drives that are linked together. I’m also using JPEG photos in the project. Maybe it can’t handle all the different sources from the different drives??
As far as your questions above, um…not sure what DV50 is. I shot some of the footage on a PD-150 (DV) and some on the Sony EX-1 (24P). I honestly don’t know whether it’s 8 or 10bit. Where would I find that info.?

I started a new project, and threw some effects on a clip and it handled it just fine. So it might be something specific to this project.

Sorry, I’m not a tech expert as you can see.
Does any of this give you any clues?
Thanks…
Sarah

[Don Greening]

[Sarah Weinstein] “I honestly don’t know whether it’s 8 or 10bit. Where would I find that info.? “

8 or 10 bit refers to the 8 bit uncompressed codec and the 10 bit uncompressed codec. There are lots of different video codecs used by FCP, including the DV NTSC and the XDCAM EX codecs which are the ones you’re using in your current timeline.

– Don

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Sarah Weinstein] “I’m using video from a couple old projects saved on different hard drives that are linked together. I’m also using JPEG photos in the project. Maybe it can’t handle all the different sources from the different drives?? “

That’d be a good place to start.

[Sarah Weinstein] “Where would I find that info.? “

HIt command-zero with your sequence selected and that will tell you what codec/resolution you are working in.

[Sarah Weinstein] “I started a new project, and threw some effects on a clip and it handled it just fine. So it might be something specific to this project. “

Yes, I would say that it has to do with your project/media organization. FCP needs things to be neat and clean., otherwise it gets confused. One huge and fast media drive is always better than a series of fragmented drives.

[Mark Maness]

Ah…. Confucius say… When FCP gets weird, trash your preferences.

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[Sarah Weinstein]

Thanks Confucious!
Can you tell me how I do that? Not sure.
I want to do it without jeopardizing my project?…
Sarah