-
File not found: Error out of Memory
So I am working on a homework assignment and i started working on it on the school’s computers. At the school they use 27″ iMacs with 8 gb of ram and FCP 7. No problems there. When I came back home to work on the FCP file I noticed that I hadn’t updated FCP from 6 to 7. So I did. But now I have an issue where trying to render and watch the sequence gives me some random video clips (some of which are now out of sync) and no audio clips, which I suspect to be the leftovers from my render files.
But this is where it gets weird, I click on the the file I am working off of (in this case, The Matrix blue-ray rip which is 3.57 gb and is an AVI) And it says “File not found” then “Out of Memory.” I assumed that maybe it was offline so I reconnected it to the read and writable file. Nope, still not found.
So maybe I thought since I recently updated that I should trash the preferences. No that didn’t fix it either, although I hadn’t done that in awhile and still glad I did. I repaired disk permissions, emptied trash, emptied cache, hell I even deleted all cookies.I’ve been scouring the internet for a few hours with answers like, its the PSD file. But I have only two files that i’m working off, a MOV and an AVI. I’m recreating the Matrix trailer so I have those two files, the matrix trailer and the movie itself. No PSD’s.
I’ve never actually posted a question to a forum before believing that i would never yield a response. But my friends have no idea and its hard to explain this event to my Professor, for he doesn’t always know the answer. So i’m asking you guys at Creative Cow because your the most reliable source I have when it comes to FCP problems.
Please let me know if theres anymore information you need, I’m not quite a noob when it comes to FCP, but by no means am I a professional. So I may need a translation to “dumber.” haha
Thanks Guys
-Matt
Visual Effects and Motion Graphics Student @ The Art Institutes
-
4 Replies
-
Couple things…
“Out of Memory,” is usually when your HD is running low on space or in your case an External HD or even your OS HD is your Final Cut Doc’s are saved there.
“File not found.” FCP file should be VERY small compared to what your original video files are… Back in the day when I used to work on the school computer and bring files home I often had to reconnect media. This would only happen when you did not setup FCP to point to an EXTERNAL HD and moved the file when your were done working at the school
….(SIDE-NOTE) When I used to capture footage and bring lazy didn’t rename my project FCP would call it Untitled.mov now when I did this again for another project it wrote over the Untitled.mov file… so maybe that might help.
I suggest start SUPER fresh on a new project and copy over your edits from the OLD FCP file to the new one… Maybe that will resolve all your issues.
Hope this helps – Don’t forget to LIKE my facebook page!
Photgrapher, Videographer, Web Designer, Editor, Still and Motion Graphic Designer yet not Invincible – Only an EYETOGRAPHER
Pls Like – https://facebook.com/eyetography -
Thanks for the reply!
So I tried to copy all my edits over and it still has an issue with the HD file. I started a new sequence and only imported the Matrix HD file to it, then tried to open it in the viewer window, Then I got the same two error messages.
I use to work off my External hard drive but soon learned that, that would severely decrease the life of it. So although I use it to transfer files, I always drop the files on the computer and work off the computer. Now my iMac is a 600 gb hard drive, and I have about 250 gb free space. Do you think that would be sufficient?
As a general rule now, I also learned that renaming and organization was really important so I too name my project file as soon as I make it. Although inside the file I don’t rename the sequences until I get more than on that is.
And just to make sure i’m not going crazy, today when I was in a different class, I pulled open the project file on a different computer. And it worked perfectly. No reconnection issues or anything. I also have tried to open the file on my computer and work off my External, just to give it a shot. Its a 500 gb firewire/usb external with 280 gb free space and that didn’t work either. I’m begining to think its my RAM? But I’ve cleared a lot of routine things to free that up (I.E. Trash bin, cache, cookies, preferences, disk repair permission) Is there anything i’m missing?
Thanks again
-Matt
Visual Effects and Motion Graphics Student @ The Art Institutes
-
I hear media managing the sequence will fix it.
I think it’s in the Cow somewhere.
-I EDIT ANYWHERE-
-
YES! Media Manager worked for me.
While on the sequence, go to File -> Media Manager -> Browse
and select a new folder. Let it process and voila!
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up