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FCPX exporting corrupted clips
Hi everyone I am currently trying to export a file from FCPX for mixing down to DVD but am encountering some major issues in exporting whenever I export a certain project file I am met with the error msg in quicktime.
“The document “NPA Tonbridge.mov” could not be opened. This media may be damaged.”
VLC player plays back the file ok and I have tried exporting in xdcam 50mbps, 35, and pro res 422 but all meet the same problem. The original file is very long 3hrs 46min 42sec so the file sizes for this are equally large eg. the 422 mixdown is 212.3gb.
Does anyone why this would be occuring? It’s not something I have seen before on other shorter productions.
Thanks
Chris
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17 Replies
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anyone any ideas?
through on some corrections and re rendered the projcet, i can get part of an export to open up fine from a previous export I quit around 60% but once fcpx has actually exported 100% I still get the movie file is corrupted msg.
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Will any other player but VLC play this movie? Will it open in Quicktime?
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Just vlc unfortunately I’ve tried adobe also
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OK.
Have you tried QT Repair from Digital Rebellion?
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/promaintenance/
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Is this is only the export that is corrupt or is a piece of media in the project?
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It’s just the export that is corrupted, i quit a export a few days ago around about the 60%mark kept the file and everything plays back ok there but for some reason the whole thing does not.
There are a few text graphics in there just occured to me disabling/tweaking something minor so they re render and then attempting a quick 422 export might solve the issue.
The original files are XDCAM imported directly into fcpx through XDCAM Browser with no music, differen’t file types etc. literally just the media which plays back fine and a seconds of text between clip.
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GOt ya. I misunderstood at first.
Are you exporting this clip to an external hard drive? How is it formatted?
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No problem cheers for all the help thus far.
footage is being exported back to the same Raid as the original project so shouldn’t be any issues with formatting. So far I have tried xdcam 50mbps, 35mbps, and pro res 422 (which I think the project is native too)
A dvd export of the project did work from within FCPX so as a measure of last resort I could potentially export to blu ray and then transcode to dvd from that but it’s far from an ideal situation.
My export with the text disabled via the V button also failed, I forgot to V one text segment but that would likely have been well within a portion of a previous export which I cancelled halfway and kept the file which bizarrely opened ok.
All I can think of now is trashing all the render files and copying and pasting the clips into a new timeline, I’m completely stuck/a slightly similar sounding word.
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But the Project exports, but the resulting QuickTime is no good, right?
And shorter exports work?
I’ve never tried to export a movie that long in FCPX. Let me see if I can reproduce it.
A 3 hour ProRes movie should be around 180Gigs or so. What’s the free space on your hard drive?
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I as able to export a 4+ hour ProRes movie with no problems. It opens everywhere.
I think you should duplicate the Project, but don’t duplicate the render files.
Remember, you don’t necessarily have to render before exporting in FCPX so simply deleting the render files and reexporting should start you with a clean slate.
As far as exporting files without text, you should be able to achieve this though Roles and shouldn’t have to manually disable all text on your timeline.
Jeremy
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