“File: Access Denied” error when I try to render

[Michael Gossen]

Have you checked the permissions for your scratch directory? You might have to manually change them.

Michael Gossen
Helium Digital Media

[Jim Eckes]

That did it! Mission accomplished.
Thanks, don’t know why I didn’t think of that.

Jim Eckes
MacPro 8 core
1 NVidia Gforce G120 card
1 Blackmagic Intensity Video card
16 gb Ram
FCP 6.0.6

[Kari Mitchell]

I am having the same problem now rendering. I have never had it before, in fact, I edited all day yesterday. Can anyone tell me how to change the permission settings? I have no idea if I clicked something or why this would be a problem all of a sudden. Any help would be appreciated.

[Kari Mitchell]

Sorry – I think I have it working now. I am still not sure why I had to change the setting when I never did before but so far so good – the audio rendered 🙂

[Wendy Conquest]

After trying to edit an mp4 in FCP 6 (Mac OS 10.5.8–Mac desktop Quadcore)–I know it’s a no-no– nothing rendered and I got “File error: access denied.” I did a work around by exporting a sequence and bringing it back as .mov file into the project and edited it just fine. Went after another file and brought it back into the project and it needed rendering. Which was not to be.

I got rid of that project,emptied trash, went back to the one I was working on earlier and still the same problem in rendering. I have been working with this older project for weeks, its a DV project and I have made no major changes on my drives or computer, and have had no problems with it. (Or with FCP in general!)
I have verified and changed back and forth the permissions, trashed preferences, tried all the obvious tricks with rendering, tried starting new projects, changed my scratch disks, emptied render manager, threw away some render files,(except for some that say “constant frames”–haven’t explored that yet). Still the same error box!

My project is on my desk top, my capture scratch is a laCie 1.5 T drive. One odd thing, there seems to be no permissions on the LaCie drive to be repaired when I go into “disk utility” and deep into my Mac Hard drive when I was trying to repair permissions there were a few obscure permissions that said “could not be repaired.” I am at a loss and trying to avoid uninstalling and reinstalling FCP 6.
Desperate for some guidance and would appreciate any suggestions!

[Evan Kuzava]

I’m having the same problem- it says access denied, but i can’t figure out how to fix it. Used spotlight to search for “Scratch” but nothing showed up. Can anyone give me a step by step breakdown of where to go to get my final cut to render audio files?
Thanks.

[Michael Gossen]

Open your ‘System Settings’ under the Final Cut Pro menu at the top of the screen.

The very first line in the box under the Scratch Disk tab will give you the path to your scratch disk.

Navigate to that folder in Finder and click File > Get Info.

You may have to click the little lock in the lower right hand corner to be able to change permissions. You will need an administrator password for that. If you need to, change all to ‘Read & Write’. Then click on the little gear icon at the bottom of the pane and choose ‘Apply to enclosed items…’.

Try your render again.

Michael Gossen
Helium Digital Media

[Danielle Kummer]

Many thanks for that – I was having the same problem, and its now solved.

However I’m a bit mystified as to why I would have that problem all of a sudden, I had a similar issue with trying to change my Scratch Disk back to my internal hard-drive, (after using an external one) it told me I didn’t have permission to write the disk, and I had to change the permissions of my user, and I’m the admin.

I’ve previously used it as the scratch disk with no permissions changing so I’m just curious if anyone know why this would happen all of a sudden?

Many thanks,

Danielle

[Daeran Gall]

I have had this before..
The video was imported as an mp4 with 44.1 sound, and maybe some kind of compession

I exported the sound from source using quicktime pro 7 as an AIFF at 48hz.

and that solved it for me 🙂